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Cuckoo calling - is it common to hear them?

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  • #52
    geeneyj2
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    Never heard in Louth either though when I was young I used to think collared dove call was a cuckoo


  • #53
    amadangomor
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    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    They eat a lot of a certain type of caterpillar and the fir plantations are great for producing them so that’s a good place to hear them late evening before the roost.

    This makes sense to me now as I heard one in Rahin wood Co. Kildare a few weeks ago and there were lots of caterpillars hanging down on silk on the conifers.


  • #54
    Don keebals
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭Don keebals


    bto.org/our-science/projects/cuckoo-tracking-project .........just seen this project tracking cuckoo's in England they have live tracking of 3 male birds currently stopped in Spain readying for the flight over the Sahara desert, interesting for anyone interested in the migration route's to Africa and finding out possible causes for decline in numbers.


  • #55
    New Home
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    Mod: You don't have enough posts to be able to post links, yet, op.

    Here it is: https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/cuckoo-tracking-project


  • #56
    Rows Grower
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    Not yet the time of year but fairly sure I just heard one here in south Kerry.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #57
    Don keebals
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭Don keebals


    The tracking of the 3 UK birds now show's them building their fat reserves readying for the flight over the Sahara desert and back to UK after spending the winter in the rainforests of Gabon and Angola.


  • #58
    Rows Grower
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    False alarm.

    On closer investigation it turned out to be a collared dove.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #59
    fryup
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    Rows Grower wrote: »
    Not yet the time of year but fairly sure I just heard one here in south Kerry.

    did you hear the one about the kerryman who thought he heard a cuckoo in february....


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