Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus optatus)
ID: 163541
Photographer: © Ian Montgomery
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Location: Bluewater NE Queensland Australia
Date & Time: 7/12/14 8:36:58 AM
Original size (pixels): width 1200, height 900
Aperture: f5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec
Focal Length: 400.0 mm
Taxonomy of Oriental Cuckoo is confused, both in treatment of races/species and in naming. BirdLife Australia and Birdlife Australia both lump into one species but BirdLife Australia calls it C.optatus while BirdLife International (2014) calls it C. saturatus.
Gallery revised on Thursday, 4 February 2016