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Asian Koel (female)
Eudynamys scolopaceus
22.5726, 88.3639
Field Notes
Description:
Brown upperparts, heavily speckled and dotted with white. Underparts are whitish, finely barred with dark brown bars. Tail is barred dark grey and white. Crown is darker brown. . Eyes are red. This one is a female.Speckled beauty. Brood parasite. On a fig tree. Shy and secretive. Sweet call.
Habitat:
Urban residential area. This fig tree was a bird magnet. It was growing in front of an abandoned house which became a den of all sorts of undesirable activities so people chopped down the tree and barricaded the house....there goes all my photo ops.
Reference Links:
Asian koel - Wikipedia
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PublishedJune 21, 2019
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