I realised I yet to post it from my library of birds. In any case I got the opportunity to shoot the bird again in Ipoh with my good Ipoh friends Lean, Ooi and new acquintaint John. This is a resident bird in Malaysia as well as southern Thailand Singapore and Phillipines and Indonesia. It is less common seen than the Plaintive Cuckoo.
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| This is an adult male whilst the female have a bit of barring to its chest |
The cuckoo looks almost alike its cousin the Plaintive but if you start comparing you will see
1. Both have yellow eye-ring but the Rusty have more distinctive yellow eye-ring.
2. Grey top from head to the upperparts for the plaintivie whilst the Rusty has a rusty creamy front from its chests to its underpart.
3. One is often seen perch in open plain and suburbs garden areas and the other prefers in jungle fringe in shady tree canopy.
4. The Plaintive is rather quiet in nature whilst the Rusty-breasted is most vocal in its territorial calls
5. Size wise the Plaintive is much slimmer and the Rusty is a cm longer and bigger.
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