violet cuckoo

Violet Cuckoo in Mae Chan, Chiang Rai, Thailand seen 21/09/18.

Violet Cuckoo, female

Finally saw the male after much pursue. He did the unimaginable of perching right in front of me so much so that I had to back off a little to get it in frame and focus. This guy is a complete different looking bird as compared to the female in terms of his brilliant purple plumage which the...

This female would came along to pick up caterpillars from the branches of a tall tree. She would find a perch where there were plenty of caterpillars and pick them up one by one. Once she had enough she would then fly to another perch to sample another group of caterpillars. As the food source...

From '08. Thanks to the generosity of the camping Thai birders who went out of their way to tell me of the bird perched in a tree near them : )

immature bird, nominate race. A fairly small bird characterised by fine wavy dark bars all over the body. Like most cuckoo species, it too lay their eggs in the nest of other birds. Though a resident, it's not commonly seen.

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Spotted this male after the Malhoka encounter. Initially mistook it as a myhna but observed the smallish yellow beak and slight built and confirmed to be a visitor on close inspection. Pretty tame and rare too. At time of shot, specimen was scanning a host tree for little catepillars.