Green-billed Malkoha

The green-billed malkoha is a non-parasitic cuckoo found throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is waxy bluish black with a long graduated tail with white tips to the feathers, and a prominent curved bill. The face has a red patch, often with a clear white border. The adult is dark grey with a green gloss above, with oily green wings, and the bird is about 50 to 60cm long and weighs 100 to 128g (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its breeding habitat is primary forest, second growth, dense thickets, scrub, cultivated areas and rubber plantations, across South Asia east from Nepal, India and Sri Lanka to Southeast Asia. It lives mainly on insects, but is also known to catch small lizards and small mammals, and occasionally catches insects in flight. The account opened gives no clutch or nesting detail.