I am sure I have collared the dove that has been mistaken for a cuckoo
LEST there is an avalanche of cuckoo reports following R J A Hunter's letter (February 5), may I suggest that the bird heard was in fact a collared dove.
LEST there is an avalanche of cuckoo reports following R J A Hunter's letter (February 5), may I suggest that the bird heard was in fact a collared dove.
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The tri-syllabic "coo-coo-cooo" call is increasingly heard at this time of year as the doves prepare to build their nests. Duncan Miller and R Russell Smith (Letters, February 6) will know well the call of the woodpigeon , "tak-two-coos taffy", that surely is not ever confused with the two "coo-coo" notes of the real thing.
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I am sure I have collared the dove that has been mistaken for a cuckoo
LEST there is an avalanche of cuckoo reports following R J A Hunter's letter (February 5), may I suggest that the bird heard was in fact a collared dove.
The tri-syllabic "coo-coo-cooo" call is increasingly heard at this time of year as the doves prepare to build their nests. Duncan Miller and R Russell Smith (Letters, February 6) will know well the call of the woodpigeon , "tak-two-coos taffy", that surely is not ever confused with the two "coo-coo" notes of the real thing.
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