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Common Hawk Cuckoo
Hierococcyx varius
22.5417, 88.3164
Field Notes
Description:
A Shikra (Accipiter badius) look alike in colouration. Ashy feathers. Legs bear tufts of feathers. Looks like its eyes are lined with yellow eye-liner.
Habitat:
This one was drying its feathers after a sharp spell of monsoon rains. It was sitting on the electric wire near a neighbours house. I had come out to put out the trash! No glasses on my nose...blurry outline but I knew it was special. Thankfully it gave me time to run in and get the camera; glasses too...all the while neighbours ASSURED me it was a pigeon!
Notes:
Also called Brain fever bird. Papiha in Hindi. Also Piu Kahan (Where is my beloved? ) which makes it a favourite of poets. All these names derive from what people think its call sounds like.
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