Rusty-Breasted Cuckoo
RUSTY-BREASTED CUCKOO
Cacomantis sepulcralis
Cuckoo Family
Bird #100 - January 2009
This is called Brush Cuckoo cacomantis variolosus in the Kennedy guide. This bird is a common Philippine resident. It is about 9" long. It can be found in coastal mangroves and montane mossy forests.
Our first encounter with a Brush Cuckoo was in Mt. Kitanglad, Bukidnon in January 2009, we didn't get a picture. We saw it again when we went to Banaue in 2010 and we were able to take our first picture of it from the balcony of our room at the Banaue Hotel! Eventually we got more pictures of this bird in Mt. Kitanglad 2010, La Mesa Dam 2011 and on Mt. Makiling in 2011. We have also seen this bird in Sierra Madre near Camp Hamut 2011 and beside a car shop in Batangas in 2009. It is the cuckoo we have encountered the most and in different places.
All the birds we have seen so far are of the race sepucralis also known as Rusty-breasted Cuckoo.
In May 2013 we saw and photographed an immature bird being fed by a Mountain Leaf Warbler. It seems the Brush Cuckoo is a brood parasite, it lays it eggs in other birds nests. In this case the Mountain Leaf Warbler. It was pretty sad to see the tiny warbler having to feed the giant "baby" cuckoo.
Read MoreCacomantis sepulcralis
Cuckoo Family
Bird #100 - January 2009
This is called Brush Cuckoo cacomantis variolosus in the Kennedy guide. This bird is a common Philippine resident. It is about 9" long. It can be found in coastal mangroves and montane mossy forests.
Our first encounter with a Brush Cuckoo was in Mt. Kitanglad, Bukidnon in January 2009, we didn't get a picture. We saw it again when we went to Banaue in 2010 and we were able to take our first picture of it from the balcony of our room at the Banaue Hotel! Eventually we got more pictures of this bird in Mt. Kitanglad 2010, La Mesa Dam 2011 and on Mt. Makiling in 2011. We have also seen this bird in Sierra Madre near Camp Hamut 2011 and beside a car shop in Batangas in 2009. It is the cuckoo we have encountered the most and in different places.
All the birds we have seen so far are of the race sepucralis also known as Rusty-breasted Cuckoo.
In May 2013 we saw and photographed an immature bird being fed by a Mountain Leaf Warbler. It seems the Brush Cuckoo is a brood parasite, it lays it eggs in other birds nests. In this case the Mountain Leaf Warbler. It was pretty sad to see the tiny warbler having to feed the giant "baby" cuckoo.
RUSTY-BREASTED CUCKOO Cacomantis sepulcralis Bessang Pass, Ilocos Sur, Philippines immature being fed by a Mountain Leaf Warbler
