Nature in my Backyard
Common hawk-cuckoo (Brainfever bird, চোখ গেলো পাখি; Hierococcyx varius)
A medium-sized cuckoo resident in the Indian subcontinent. It bears a close resemblance to the Shikra, even in its style of flying and landing on a perch. The resemblance to hawks gives this group the generic name of hawk-cuckoo and like many other cuckoos these are brood parasites, laying their eggs in nests of babblers.
During their breeding season in summer males produce loud, repetitive three note calls, repeated 5 or 6 times, rising in crescendo and ending abruptly, that are well-rendered as brain-fever.
The common hawk-cuckoo occurs in most of the Indian subcontinent. Some birds of the Indian population winter in Sri Lanka.
Monsoon Images of Bengal, India
Nature in my Backyard
Common hawk-cuckoo (Brainfever bird, চোখ গেলো পাখি; Hierococcyx varius)
A medium-sized cuckoo resident in the Indian subcontinent. It bears a close resemblance to the Shikra, even in its style of flying and landing on a perch. The resemblance to hawks gives this group the generic name of hawk-cuckoo and like many other cuckoos these are brood parasites, laying their eggs in nests of babblers.
During their breeding season in summer males produce loud, repetitive three note calls, repeated 5 or 6 times, rising in crescendo and ending abruptly, that are well-rendered as brain-fever.
The common hawk-cuckoo occurs in most of the Indian subcontinent. Some birds of the Indian population winter in Sri Lanka.
Monsoon Images of Bengal, India