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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bryon Wright" data-source="post: 3659393" data-attributes="member: 2304">Hawk-cuckoo idHi all,Avian seeker,  interesting photos and well worth pursuing. Your bird  has a yellow gape and lower mandible obscured by a lot of dusky pigment!Large hawk-cuckoo  in Hong Kong is near to a  small  sparrowhawk in size. Assumed  resident forms in the Peninsula are virtually the same size and dimensions, in field terms, as Hodgson's or Moustached.This does look like a boldly marked  bocki but feel Andy may have been be more  correct with his first assumption. The very pale, and marked  larger scapulars, not the  tertials on Hodgson's, seems a very facile  id. mark to use in relation to  these birds! I have however  found this to be really reliable across all ages and plumages for Hodgson's. I do not have an up to  date field guide with current arrangements but this bird may be  described as vegans in some?</blockquote>