Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Greater Coucal
Centropus sinensis
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
A heavy crow-shape with chestnut wings rises from a thicket, deep hoots booming through humid air. Despite the look, it is no corvid - a coucal that raises its own young.
- Population
- widespread and locally common across South and Southeast Asia
- Habitat
- dense thickets, reedbeds, scrub jungle, village edge, garden tangles
- Diet
- large insects, snails, lizards, snakes, eggs, nestlings, small vertebrates
- Size
- 0.48 m
- Wingspan
- 0.62 m
