I agree that it is a Pallid Cuckoo but as I recently learned when discussing
with others a claim put to me of an adult Pallid Cuckoo feeding a juvenile
Pallid Cuckoo, it is not necessarily a juvenile. More likely I suggest it is
an adult female. Apparently female Pallid Cuckoos can resemble, perhaps
retain, juvenile plumage into adulthood. In that instance it was concluded
that it was a male courting an adult female by feeding her, a behaviour that
has also previously been misinterpreted.
In Margaret Christian's book 'Norfolk Island - the Birds' (2005), Pallid
Cuckoo has the status of 'rare vagrant'.
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martin cachard
Sent: Friday, 21 November 2014 8:21 AM
To: greg clancy; Craig Doolan;
Subject: Cuckoo ID from Norfolk Island
i'm with Greg, a young Pallid Cuckoo for mine...
cheers,
martin cachard,
cairns
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> Looks like a juvenile-immature Pallid Cuckoo to me.
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> Regards
> Greg
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> Can anyone help me out with the ID of this cuckoo observed on Norfolk
> Island yesterday morning??
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> Craig Doolan
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