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Hello
Margaret,
That
is a very nice photo but one of the most difficult of our local birds to
identify. Unfortunately the toes are not visible to reveal that it is not a
passerine. I see you have already said it is a cuckoo. The beak and head shape
is distinctive for a cuckoo.
Given that, the shape, the colour and eye ring
show it is a juvenile Fantailed Cuckoo or Brush Cuckoo. The tail tip is not so
clear to reveal the shape.
Deciding which is one is really hard. I have certainly been left
wondering after fairly good looks at these birds.
On the
basis that it appears not to be strongly patterned and that the
Fantailed Cuckoo is by far the more common, I would go with 69.5%
probability on juvenile Fantailed Cuckoo and 29.5% probability on juvenile
Brush Cuckoo and that leaves 1% probability on me being altogether wrong.
But that is just my opinion.
Philip
If this gets through to the Chat line, can someone please
tell me which cuckoo I have here? Kambah pool this morning. Thank
you. I have many other frames too (using bracketing), if you want a
better look at some other part of the bird.
Margaret Leggoe
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