Long tailed cuckoos overwintering

[hayden]

I'm convinced I saw a LTC Sunday 8/6/25 on the road out to Muriwai, and since then there have been two more reports on ebird from Whangarei on the 10th and Kaipara on the 11th

Doesn't feel normal for this time of the year, or am I only noticing because I'm now paying attention to reports of them?

Muriwai https://ebird.org/checklist/S247944645
Whangarei https://ebird.org/checklist/S248770690
Kaipara https://ebird.org/checklist/S249058513

[Neil Fitzgerald]

A few birds are thought to overwinter, and it makes sense that they would at least be in the north of the country. They can be so cryptic that it wouldn’t surprise me if it was more common than generally thought.
A shame none of those records seem to have sound recordings to verify.

[Oscar Thomas]

I can vouch for the observers in Whangarei, consistently reliably records when I follow up on them.