Rare cuckoo spotted on a Golf course.
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- Yorkshire Kris
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Rare cuckoo spotted on a Golf course.
It's a bit early for our normal summer visitors but a rare species of Cuckoo has been spotted on a golf course.
Re: Rare cuckoo spotted on a Golf course.
It's a Great Spotted Cuckoo, at Giltar Point, Pembrokeshire.
They usually occur in the Mediterranean, and migrate north from Africa about 5 or 6 weeks earlier than our Common Cuckoos - hence the early date for this one.
PS their call is very different, they don't say "cuckoo".
They usually occur in the Mediterranean, and migrate north from Africa about 5 or 6 weeks earlier than our Common Cuckoos - hence the early date for this one.
PS their call is very different, they don't say "cuckoo".
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Re: Rare cuckoo spotted on a Golf course.
They are more like road runners I believe?
Re: Rare cuckoo spotted on a Golf course.
Not really, noYorkshire Kris wrote:They are more like road runners I believe?
They are larger than Common Cuckoos, but more closely related to them than either is to Roadrunners. Both are also brood parasites, whereas Roadrunners (like all of the New World cuckoos) build their own nests and look after their own young.
Re: Rare cuckoo spotted on a Golf course.
You saw the Cuckoo, yesterday I saw the Pied Wagtail. At this rate I forsee through my looking glass the Hummingbird I have waited years for.