{"id":54002,"date":"2018-05-15T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=54002"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:08:41","slug":"male-little-bronze-cuckoo-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2018\/05\/15\/male-little-bronze-cuckoo-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Little Bronze Cuckoo calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?attachment_id=54003\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54003\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CuckooLB-sonogram-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CuckooLB-sonogram-1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CuckooLB-sonogram-1-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard two types of \u2018advertising calls\u2019 from this male Little Bronze Cuckoo (<em>Chalcites minutillus peninsularis<\/em>) (above). The first is used very often, even while foraging and is the predominant call. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Erritz\u00f8e, Mann, Brammer and Fuller. Cuckoos of the World, 2012 describes it as \u201cchiw-chiw-chiw-chiw\u201d. To my ear it is a weaker version of the Banded Bay Cuckoo (<em>Cacomantis sonneratii<\/em>) calls. Wells 1999 says, of males, that it is often uttered 3-5 times, usually 4 times and I can fully agree with this observation. I head this call numerous times in the 30 minute observation. <\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-54002-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-calls2-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-15th-April-2018.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-calls2-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-15th-April-2018.mp3\">https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Bronze-Cuckoo-calls2-Ipoh-Perak-Malaysia-15th-April-2018.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&#8220;An edited recording is in given above with a waveform and sonogram below. The call picks up between notes 1-3 and then seems to \u2018falter\u2019 on the 4th note.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?attachment_id=54005\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54005\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CuckooLB-sonogram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CuckooLB-sonogram.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CuckooLB-sonogram-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second call is used very much less commonly and I only heard it 3 times. It is as Wells describes it &#8216;a thin, high-pitched, drawn-out trill&#8217;. To my ear it sounded like a weak or soft Storkbill Kingfisher call. I sadly have no recordings.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2010\/03\/11\/dato%E2%80%99-dr-amar-singh-hss-%E2%80%93-birdwatcher-extraordinarie\/\">Dato\u2019 Dr Amar-Singh HSS<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nIpoh, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\n15th April 2018<\/p>\n<p>Location: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\nHabitat: Secondary growth on fringe of city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI heard two types of \u2018advertising calls\u2019 from this male Little Bronze Cuckoo (Chalcites minutillus peninsularis) (above). The first is used very often, even while foraging and is the predominant call. &#8220;Erritz\u00f8e, Mann, Brammer and Fuller. Cuckoos of the World, 2012 describes it as \u201cchiw-chiw-chiw-chiw\u201d. To my ear it is a weaker version of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":54003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}