madcat

2014-05-10 Po Toi

The bird was seen at the hillside behind toilets near the pier.  No calls at all.  

Regarding size, it was bigger than a Plaintive cuckoo, but I can't really tell how much bigger as there was no reference around I could use on the spot.  I also post some uncropped photos to help showing the size of it.

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11/05/2014 19:04

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11/05/2014 19:07

Around 10M away

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11/05/2014 19:04

Around 13-15M away

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11/05/2014 19:04

Around 20M away

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[ Last edited by madcat at 11/05/2014 19:13 ]

ivantse

Here are the photo for both species. Just for reference
Oriental Cuckoo
http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?p=4&Bird_ID=444&Bird_Family_ID=&pagesize=1
Lesser Cuckoo
http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?Bird_ID=443&Bird_Image_ID=13090&p=19

lpaul

I have reservations regarding the ID of many on the Lesser Cuckoos on OBI which are of migrants/wintering birds and as such would not be vocalizing and thus ID would be based on plumage.

My experience of singing males and museum specimens (which can be measured to confirm ID) is that the bars on the underparts of Lesser Cuckoo are very distinctive in that they are clearly 'broken' across the belly as in this individual:

http://orientalbirdimages.org/se ... _ID=&pagesize=1

As such, I think your bird is probably a Lesser Cuckoo.

[ Last edited by lpaul at 12/05/2014 15:30 ]

madcat

Thanks a lot for your professional comments.  This is a unexpected lifer for me.

Cheers

Quote:

Original posted by lpaul at 2014-5-12 15:26
I have reservations regarding the ID of many on the Lesser Cuckoos on OBI which are of migrants/wintering birds and as such would not be vocalizing and thus ID would be based on plumage.

My experience of singing males and museum specimens (which can be measured to confirm ID) is that the bars on the underparts of Lesser Cuckoo are very distinctive in that they are clearly 'broken' across the belly as in this individual:

http://orientalbirdimages.org/se ... _ID=&pagesize=1

As such, I think your bird is probably a Lesser Cuckoo.