GREATER COUCAL or CROW-PHEASANT

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It is a clumsy, glossy black bird with conspicuous chestnut wings and long, broad, black, graduated tail. Both the sexes are alike. It is found singly or in pairs, stalking along the ground in the undergrowth. It is a largely terrestial, nonparasitic cuckoo. Its food consists of caterpillars, large insects, snails, lizards, young mice, and birds' eggs. It has a deep resonant call, in series of 6 or 7 and upto 20, repeated quickly in varying tempo. Its nesting season is from February to September. Its nest is usually an untidy, large globular mass of twigs, leaves, etc., with a lateral entrane. Where to look for in IIT? In the scrub jungles and the trees. Back To Birds Thumbnails