asian koel

Asian Koel - Female. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

Asian Koel - Male. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

Asian Koel - Female. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

This is the female bird of Asian Koel

Asian Koel (female)

Asian Koel - Female Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

Balcony Biodiversity-2.0.3 Stay Home images ... Many pairs of these vocal cuckoos are moving through the canopy of trees in neighborhood gardens ... strengthening pair bonding ... both sexes announcing their availability ... and also waiting for crows and babblers to begin their nesting...

This juvenile male koel was being harassed by a crow when his mum turned up(seen in the bg) & chased it away.

Asian Koel shot near my home

member of the parasitic cuckoo family, a rather large size cuckoo and having a loud voice too. Seen here helping himself with the juicy figs with his 'skirt' fan out. They (female) were known to lay their eggs in the crow's nest and let the crows do the rest. But I have yet to see a crow feeding...

member of the parasitic cuckoo family, a rather large size cuckoo and having a loud voice too. They were known to lay their eggs in the crow's nest and let the crows do the rest. But I have yet to see a crow feeding a baby koel. I wonder if the crow would had figure it out and use their eggs as...

Koels are very common in Hong Kong, during breeding season their repetitive call echoes throughout. There's been incidents of people reporting and complaining about their calls being too annoying, but there was nothing anyone can do about it. More Hong Kong birding on...

Went out with a gorgeous bird last night. Yea, what's her name.

Mating pair of Asian Koel

Here it is sitting on our show-case. Still a bit scared.

This Asian Koel(probably juvenile) flew into our living room, totally scared, having been chased by a crow. Flew around a bit. Sat on the ceiling fan, window etc. Fortunately, the fan was off, else, it could have been catastrophic.

The shrill cries of this juv Asian Koel caught our attention...a classic case of Brood Parasitism and the parent crow had four juv koels near its nest waiting to be fed!!!! The crow here is carrying food in its beak to feed the hungry offspring.

Not sure if it is the Asian Koel but this one is from the Myna family

This female of the Asian Koel bird sat for almost an hour in the shade of this tree to avoid the heat of the afternoon sun, right outside my home window.

This male Asian Koel was sitting on the branch of a tree just opposite my home window.

The Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopacea) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes. It is found in South Asia, China, and Southeast Asia. It forms a superspecies with the closely related Black-billed and Pacific Koels which are sometimes treated as subspecies. The Asian Koel is a...