Not Black-eared but Horsfield's Cuckoo ........ Ockham's razor

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Subject:	Not Black-eared but Horsfield's Cuckoo ........ Ockham's razor
From:	Paul Taylor <>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:12:07 +1100

Philip Veerman wrote:

I suggest we reappraise and probably give greater use of Ockham's razor.


Might I suggest that Occam's Razor has shredded the rule book this season
- your resident White-fronted Honeyeater being one of many examples.

Having encountered an unbarred juvenile Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo a few
minutes after watching the Black-eared Cuckoos at Uriarra Crossing, I can
well understand how the two can be confused.  Better to ask the question
and be mistaken, than to not ask and be right (and not know it.)

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