Fork-tailed drongos have a signature color and pattern on their eggs, which helps them avoid getting duped by African cuckoos. Hans Stieglitz via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Cuckoos have ...
It is what is called a brood parasite which means that it lays its eggs in the nests of other species of birds. Host species include flycatchers, fairy-wrens, scrubwrens and thornbills. It is easily ...
Egg 'signatures' will allow drongos to identify cuckoo 'forgeries' almost every time, study finds. African cuckoos may have met their match with the fork-tailed drongo, which scientists predict can ...
It is one of four species of cuckoo-shrikes. They have a black face and throat, blue-grey back, wings and tail, and white underparts. They are slender, attractive birds. They have a curious habit of ...
The call of the critically endangered Sumatran ground cuckoo, which was widely believed extinct until a decade ago, has been recorded for the first time, a conservation group has announced. Click ...
As the heavy rains finally took a break this last week in Kochi, the sounds of birds took over. I searched for the birds the calls belonged to but only came across the omnipresent pigeons. It’s the ...
Sightings of rare migratory birds at Rabindra Sarobar have excited the birding community, with species like the Square-tailed Drongo Cuckoo, Blyth's Paradise Flycatcher, and Emerald Dove attracting ...
It is one of four species of cuckoo-shrikes. They have a black face and throat, blue-grey back, wings and tail, and white underparts. They are slender, attractive birds. They have a curious habit of ...