I think this is a fan-tailed cuckoo, what do others think?
I think it is too, although usually I would expect a more distinctive yellow around the eye, maybe that was lost given the lighting of the photo
juveniles don't have the yellow eye-ring.
I think the fan-tailed juveniles do. Simpson and Day notes it as a way of helping distinguish juvenile fan tailed from juvenile brush cuckoos, and its present for most photos I looked at of juvenile fan taileds.
hmm it seems some don't
juv fan tailed
http://dl.id.au/photo_birds/2012-01-09_7699.jpg
It also seems to occur again on another fan tailed juvenile
http://dl.id.au/photo_birds/2012-01-09_7656.jpg
Also funnily enough here's a juv. brush cuckoo that's developed a yellow eye ring
http://m2.i.pbase.com/o9/86/959086/1/152852142.6s4EdJ0I.onbekendbp.jpg
Guess I better cross that line out in my field book, although the 2 seem easy enough to distinguish on plumage alone
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I think it is too, although usually I would expect a more distinctive yellow around the eye, maybe that was lost given the lighting of the photo
juveniles don't have the yellow eye-ring.
I think the fan-tailed juveniles do. Simpson and Day notes it as a way of helping distinguish juvenile fan tailed from juvenile brush cuckoos, and its present for most photos I looked at of juvenile fan taileds.
hmm it seems some don't
juv fan tailed
http://dl.id.au/photo_birds/2012-01-09_7699.jpg
It also seems to occur again on another fan tailed juvenile
http://dl.id.au/photo_birds/2012-01-09_7656.jpg
Also funnily enough here's a juv. brush cuckoo that's developed a yellow eye ring
http://m2.i.pbase.com/o9/86/959086/1/152852142.6s4EdJ0I.onbekendbp.jpg
Guess I better cross that line out in my field book, although the 2 seem easy enough to distinguish on plumage alone