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23 August 2025

Plaintive Cuckoo

 Cuculiformes - Cuculidae - Cacomantis merulinus (Sewah Perut Jingga)


A small and slender cuckoo, far more often heard than seen; the male's accelerating song, which decreases in volume as it progresses, is composed of a few whistled long notes followed by shorter, breathy notes. Adult male and typical (non-hepatic) female show orange belly, gray head, and brown back and tail. Hepatic, or rufous-morph, individuals are rusty brown above and white below, with black barring all over the body. Inhabits open woodlands, edges, and agricultural areas.
(eBird)




Each encounter may be a familiarity but see, and there arises one's amazement with creation.



02 April 2025

Plaintive Cuckoo

Cuculiformes - Cuculidae - Cacomantis merulinus (Sewah Perut Jingga)

A small and slender cuckoo, far more often heard than seen; the male's accelerating song, which decreases in volume as it progresses, is composed of a few whistled long notes followed by shorter, breathy notes. Adult male and typical (non-hepatic) female show orange belly, gray head, and brown back and tail. Hepatic, or rufous-morph, individuals are rusty brown above and white below, with black barring all over the body. Inhabits open woodlands, edges, and agricultural areas.


Unmistakable if heard, maybe mistakable if of another angle.


 

* Of the mysterious the function - moving forward without moving, the compassionate wins *
- adapt to situation -



25 November 2018

08 June 2017

"The whole value of solitude ...."



The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

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John Lubbock