cuckoo , North greece (1 Viewer)

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bairakta

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• Aug 19, 2019

• #1

Good morning the bird was photographed at Florina Northwest Greece August 16, 2019 is it cuculus canorus or cuculus optatus ?

 

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Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

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• Aug 19, 2019

• #2

Welcome to BirdForum. I can see why you think it might be Oriental Cuckoo optatus, although I'm not sure how easy it is to be certain even with a good picture like this. Hopefully others might be able to be more definite than I'm able to be.

 

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andyb39

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• Aug 19, 2019

• #3

Why not just a Common Cuckoo?

 

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bairakta

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• Aug 19, 2019

• #4

Thank you Andrew , the bird is overexposed due to light conditions so the undertail coverts have more rusty buff color at the original photo and i can not determine whether the upperwing color is darker than the common cuckoo