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Cuckoo - Common-Hawk, sub-adult

Common Hawk-Cuckoo, popularly known as brainfever bird. Passerine/Perching birds. Has close resemblance to Shikra. he 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. The sexes are alike. They have a distinctive yellow eye ring. Subadults have the breast streaked, similar to the immature shikra, and there are large brown chevron marks on the belly.

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Uploaded on March 25, 2021
Taken on March 25, 2021