Pacific vs Asian Koel male: how to tell apart? (2 Viewers)

[earlytorise]

Birds of the World says that it's just possible that an Asian Koel might wander into the range of Pacific Koel.

Which leads me to ask, how to tell the males apart, if they are silent? Looking at photos, I can't tell.

The females are by contrast very different.

(Quite funny in that regard. How many pairs of species are there, where the adult males are the ones that are easy to separate but the females are a nightmare! Yet here it's the reverse.)

 

[earlytorise]

oh sorry could a mod pls transfer this to the ID forum, thanks

 

[delia todd]

oh sorry could a mod pls transfer this to the ID forum, thanks

Okeydoke... done!

 

[THE_FERN]

ID pointers, Asian and Pacific koels

Could someone with access to BoW or similar summarise what the morphological differences are meant to be. Not obvious to me given extensive sspp variation. Ta

www.birdforum.net

 

[earlytorise]

ID pointers, Asian and Pacific koels

Could someone with access to BoW or similar summarise what the morphological differences are meant to be. Not obvious to me given extensive sspp variation. Ta

www.birdforum.net

Thanks for linking! It seems that in the end you raised the same question and never got an actual answer to this, LOL

 

[THE_FERN]

Thanks for linking! It seems that in the end you raised the same question and never got an actual answer to this, LOL

Yes. I thought it useful to link as it includes my investigation of the supposed differences between the species