Brown cuckoo-dove (Macropygia phasianella) , Redwood. Last Saturday, I took part in a ‘ Global Big Day ’ held by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and their birdwatching website, ‘ eBird ’. For the uninitiated, a ‘big day’ (or month, year, etc) is a birdwatching colloquialism that refers to the act of finding as many birds as possible within the designated timeframe, something which I had not partaken in before. I decided that I would try find 100 bird species or more out in Toowoomba, a place I have never visited.