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Plaintive Cuckoo

YC Wee
on 8th December 2017

“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 […]

YC Wee
on 12th May 2016

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 […]

YC Wee
on 20th December 2014

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 […]

YC Wee
on 19th December 2014

“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 […]

YC Wee
on 8th September 2013

“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 […]

YC Wee
on 21st August 2013

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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