Common or Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus / optatus)

Species Account

Ordered chronologically (not necessarily by HRBP number)
HRBP 1129. Common or Oriental cuckoo (Cuculus canorus/optatus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 23 May 1997. © Peter Pyle
HRBP 1130. Common or Oriental cuckoo (Cuculus canorus/optatus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 23 May 1997. © Peter Pyle
HRBP 1131. Common or Oriental cuckoo (Cuculus canorus/optatus), center, with flying Red-tailed Tropicbird and Great Frigatebird. Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 23 May 1997. © Peter Pyle
HRBP 1132. Common or Oriental cuckoo (Cuculus canorus/optatus), center, with flying Laysan Albatross. Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 23 May 1997. © Peter Pyle
Photographs and images contributed to Hawaii Rare Bird Photograph (HRBP) file, B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu and part of The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands: Occurrence, History, Distribution, and Status by Robert L. Pyle and Peter Pyle. See Introduction for more information.