Cuckooooooo.....???

[shaun a]

This one is a mystery as cuckoo,s sound nothing like wood pigeons or collard doves,even a novice can tell the unmistakable sound a cuckoo makes,all I can think of is that it was mistaken identity

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by shaun a

This one is a mystery as cuckoo,s sound nothing like wood pigeons or collard doves,even a novice can tell the unmistakable sound a cuckoo makes,all I can think of is that it was mistaken identity

Sorry, but they do sound like collard doves..

[thunder]

Originally Posted by Daisychain

Im no expert but we have so many doves where we live & Im sure it wasn't a dove call. Someone else said wood pigeon but once again, I definately know what they sound like. Its a mystery (& definately sounded like a cuckoo!!). Oh well, shame I was the only one to hear it...., (maybe I am going bonkers ha ha)

Perhaps some local wind-up merchant was playing a recording of a Cuckoo to confuse local birders?

henrya

[Jason Claxton]

Yes I think Collared dove with this one too,which is more of a woo hoo hoo,woo hoo hoo than a cuckoo's erm..cuckoo call.

[solus]

From a distance one part of a Collared Dove call can sound very like "cuck-oo" - it fools quite a few folk in early spring!

Sorry, but there is no way it's going to have been a real Cuckoo this late in the year. Of course, there's the outside possibility of a small child with one of wooden those call-toy thingies they sell at RSPB and WWT shops....!

[Jenny W]

Whilst their actual calls are very different they do have the same sort of tone/pitch (if that's the right phrase to use) Mind you I say that - I have no musical sense at all!!

[Jason Claxton]

Yes ,the Collins Bird Guide describes it as follows:"Song a trisyllabic coo,repeated a few times,2nd syllable drawn out and stressed and 3rd lower,"doo-doooo- do",somewhat Cuckoo-like at a distance."hth

[Hedera]

And somebody borrowed the "Cuckoo" flute to practise the part for the Spring Symphony!!!! (Just joking.)

[James M]

It is easier than you think to mistake a Collared Dove for one, I know because I have in the past , mind you it doesn't help that I have never heard a wild cuckoo before.

[Jim Ford]

I've mentioned before that my German wife calls them 'coo cucks'!

Jim