When I stayed a few months in Chiang Mai, there was a bird that I infrequently heard but never saw. I've never heard it anywhere else in LOS, but it might be in other locales.

It "sings" a doleful, trilling sound, like it had lost its mate. It starts low, coos up the scale and back down, slowing towards the end. All told, maybe 7 or 8 seconds. Very mournful sound.

I never caught sight of the bird. I've endlessly checked websites, to no avail. Anyone happen to know the bird? English and Thai name? Where I can see a photo?

Thanks.

Red breasted tittler.

those are actually reptiles or lizards. I followed the sound once and caught one on the side of the house.

Possibly the Plaintive Cuckoo?

http://ibc.lynxeds.com/sound/plaintive-cuckoo-cacomantis-merulinus/song

(The louder noises on that tape are Gibbons - not the bird!)

Patrick

A bird that didn't got barfined last night?

those are actually reptiles or lizards. I followed the sound once and caught one on the side of the house.

Tokay gekko ?

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Possibly the Plaintive Cuckoo?

http://ibc.lynxeds.c...-merulinus/song

(The louder noises on that tape are Gibbons - not the bird!)

Patrick

Thanks, but no cigar. That's an abrupt whistle. The one I heard was far up in some Asian Pines and trilled softly, a little like a pigeon, but mournful.

Edited August 22, 201213 yr by HeijoshinCool

A bird that didn't got barfined last night?

Nope, that would be a Double-Breasted Mattress Thrasher. I've seen those plenty of times and their "call" is usually faked.

Anybody living in the 'burbs of Chiang Mai have a clue?

those are actually reptiles or lizards. I followed the sound once and caught one on the side of the house.

Tokay gekko ?

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Tokay call is certainly not a plaintive cooing. More like a F-you. Which was the name it was known by Aussies and Americans in Vietnam.