h Rufous Hawk-cuckoo at Maratua by PHILLIPPS, Quentin - Borneo Bird Images

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Rufous Hawk-cuckoo

Latin Name : Hierococcyx hyperythrus

Site Name : Maratua

Photographer : PHILLIPPS, Quentin

Date : 2011-01-13

Notes : This immature Rufous Hawk-cuckoo spent at least two weeks hanging around the vegetable gardens and gardens of the MPR Resort on Maratua in January 2011. It perched prominently before flying down to pick caterpillars off the grass or the leaves of garden shrubs. An adult was photographed in the same location in Oct. 2010. This cuckoo is an uncommon winter visitor from Japan to the Philippines, Sulawesi and the Moluccas but very rare in Borneo.