firstreesjohn
Well-known member
Cuckoo ID
Thanks for this, Mike.
I'm questioning the ID in the hope of illuminating my admitted ignorance: is it because the head is pale grey that it's saturatus, etc ?
In the photo, the back certainly appears brownish and darker, in comparison; with the head, as you state, "pale and grey". Is the back not dark enough for micropterus ?
This might help me, the next time I'm confronted with a cuculus somewhere in your continent. I recall a cuckoo in northern Thailand, retrospectively ID'd from a photo and only on my return to the UK- I couldn't see it well enough on the camera LCD and hadn't seen it properly in the field- actually, a bush !
Thanks again, J.
Thanks for this, Mike.
I'm questioning the ID in the hope of illuminating my admitted ignorance: is it because the head is pale grey that it's saturatus, etc ?
In the photo, the back certainly appears brownish and darker, in comparison; with the head, as you state, "pale and grey". Is the back not dark enough for micropterus ?
This might help me, the next time I'm confronted with a cuculus somewhere in your continent. I recall a cuckoo in northern Thailand, retrospectively ID'd from a photo and only on my return to the UK- I couldn't see it well enough on the camera LCD and hadn't seen it properly in the field- actually, a bush !
Thanks again, J.