I have always been on the lookout for female Plaintive Cuckoos (Cacomantis merulinus threnodes) in grey morph. We are of course familiar with the female in the hepatic or rufous morph. Erritzøe, Mann & Brammer (2012) state that adult female … Continued
“[For this post on the Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo] I am using nomenclature from “Cuckoos of the World, by Johannes Erritzøe, Clive F. Mann, Frederik P. Brammer and Richard A. Fuller. Helm, 2012” which has split the Asian Drongo-cuckoo into the Square-tailed … Continued
“I spotted two immature male Asian Emerald Cuckoos (Chrysococcyx maculatus) today. Both were self-feeding with a Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus threnodes) also present. They were busy picking caterpillars off Spondias dulcis (syn. Spondias cytherea) trees in an abandoned, overgrown fruit … Continued
“I spotted two immature male Asian Emerald Cuckoos (Chrysococcyx maculatus) today (above). Both were self-feeding with a Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus threnodes) also present. They were busy picking caterpillars off Spondias dulcis (syn. Spondias cytherea) trees in an abandoned, overgrown … Continued
“I first saw this Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus threnodes) hepatic morph in the company of a Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) that had just brought some food and was expecting a brood host feeding event. “The bird looked a bit young … Continued
“I am Thong Chow Ngian, a wildlife artist from Singapore and I would like to thank the BESG website and its team for shaping me as an artist. I will be holding my first solo painting exhibition entitled, `Singapore Wildlife’ … Continued
Sunny Lwee’s video clip shows a male Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus) making its mournful territorial call of “phi phi phi phi phi-pipipiˆ (Robson, 2008). Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus) is an uncommon resident parasitising the nests of Ashy Tailorbirds (Orthotomus ruficeps) … Continued
“I heard two Plaintive Cuckoos (Cacomantis merulinus threnodies) calling today in what appeared to be a responsive manner. I thought this was the ‘usual’ territorial behaviour. I found one of the birds on a bush over-hanging an ex-mining pool and … Continued
“On a quest for elusive Colonel butterflies in the quiet Kranji countryside last weekend, we picked up the distinctive call of the Rusty-breasted Cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis) nearby and instinctively changed to birding mode… “Scanning the trees, we saw a female … Continued
Johnny Wee documented a pair of adult Ashy Tailorbirds (Orthotomus ruficeps) feeding a recently fledged Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus) at Singapore’s Pasir Ris Farmway1 in mid-July 2013. It must have been a strange sight to witness a pair of small … Continued
