Cuckoos (1 Viewer)

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baphomet

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• Feb 12, 2006

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Does anybody know of early cuckoo recording or if any have been recorded this year yet. I had a friend call me this morning and they were sure they had heard one but I felt it was terribly early.

 

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showaddy

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• Feb 13, 2006

• #2

In my experience most people who hear a cuckoo too early these days have mis-heard, or partially heard a collared dove.

 

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baphomet

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• Feb 13, 2006

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showaddy said:

In my experience most people who hear a cuckoo too early these days have mis-heard, or partially heard a collared dove.

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That was my initial thought too. However the friend in question is reasonably clued up on common bird calls having lived in the country all his life. I do still think it was a callared dove though.

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

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• Feb 13, 2006

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baphomet said:

That was my initial thought too. However the friend in question is reasonably clued up on common bird calls having lived in the country all his life. I do still think it was a callared dove though.

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Or a cuckoo clock.

 

Ian Bell

Registered User

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• Feb 13, 2006

• #5

There is a Mr Romanov going Cuckoo down Tynecastle way in Edinburgh at the moment.

 

Quacker

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• Mar 3, 2006

• #6

I seem to remember asking about earliest Cuckoos last year - apparently it is recorded in the Times or some such paper?