Looks like one to me. It appears to have
the pale salmon pinkish throat (and underparts?) and there doesn’t appear
to be any rufous in the tail that a juvenile Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo
would have.
Mark
From:
martin butterfield [
Sent: Wednesday, 30 December 2009
6:00 AM
To: COG List
Subject: [canberrabirds] Possible
Black-eared Cuckoo
I have received the
following message from a resident of Hoskinstown. "Here's a new one for
me, I think. Is it a Black-eared Cuckoo? Perhaps a young one? Or something else
altogether? I didn't get a great look at it, the chest was a light ginger colour.
Photo taken from front verandah today."
I have reduced the size of the photograph but not otherwise (knowingly)
interfered with it.
Is my correspondent correct in his ID? It looks probable to me.
Martin
