“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 […]
![CuckooPl [SunnyLiew]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/CuckooPl-SunnyLiew-1-q8dgnjjm1t796hmrvivpbaltfo3tmca390ltgwnrzk.jpg "CuckooPl [SunnyLiew]")
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 […]
Please refer to Part 1 at this LINK. “Based on comments received, Dato’ Dr Amar-Singh HSS wrote: ”Both sexes have loud advertising calls; the breeding season is not accurately documented […]
![CuckooPl [AmarSingh] - 1](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/CuckooPl-AmarSingh-1-q8dfoz1ap5vm6ruhqkxnm0nixihuj31h5wuy2jx0ts.jpg "CuckooPl [AmarSingh] – 1")
“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 […]
![CuckooPl [LenaChow]](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/CuckooPl-LenaChow-q8dgegfrzgrgy6twxlhj7l5epkw37o7i01kugm4s4w.jpg "CuckooPl [LenaChow]")
“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 […]
![CuckooPl-TailorbirdAsh [JWee] - 1](https://besgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/CuckooPl-TailorbirdAsh-JWee-1-q8df6xitin6hc81y3a6g92k0g9f7s8eycm2fgco29c.jpg "CuckooPl-TailorbirdAsh [JWee] – 1")
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 […]
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