Koel vs Channel Billed Cuckoo

After dinner with our lovely neighbour Irene this evening, I have discovered that I am combining the attributes of 2 cuckoos into one. There is indeed the Channel Billed Cuckoo as shown below but it makes the screech sound not the cooee. The Cooee sound comes from the Koel, a different cuckoo altogether. They have slightly different breeding habits but only in the choice of foster parents. The Koel prefers to choose fig birds, wattlebirds, friar birds and the magpie-lark. Once hatched, the parasitic chick will force the other chicks out of the nest so it has sole rights to parental attention.