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Common
Cuckoo Cuculus canorus

Männikjärve
raba, Estonia 58º
51' 52.0'' N 26º 12' 39.0'' E 22
May 2010 1518h
Advertising song from open, mature spruce and deciduous
woodland with rank herb layer of Globeflower. The acoustic
properties of the environment here help create the echo
- compare with the recording from an open habitat below.
[File
name: cuckoo0522151800ecut]

Walthamstow
Reservoirs, London, England 51°
34' 47.1'' N 00° 03' 30.4'' W 10
May 2009, 2110h
Advertising song from sycamore/scrub at a rate of
40 times/min.
[File
name: cuckoo10may09walthres]

Walthamstow
Reservoirs, London, England 51°
34' 47.1'' N 00° 03' 30.4'' W 10
May 2009, 2110h
Female's rippling/bubble call (up to 2.25 kHz) following
male's last disyllabic phrase (alternating at approximately
0.75kHz and 0.58 kHz). The male then flew off in pursuit
of the female to one of the islands.

Kindrogan,
Perthshire, Scotland
11 June 2008, 0430h
Advertising song from Larch on the River Ardle.
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