GREEN-BILLED MALKOHA

Photographed at Dong Nai Nature Reserve, Vietnam, May 2024.

(1049*)                        GREEN-BILLED MALKOHA                  Phaenicophaeus tristis

                

VIETNAM                      17

The green-billed malkoha (Phaenicophaeus tristis) is a species of non-parasitic cuckoo found throughout Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. These birds are found in dry scrub and thin forests. ts breeding habitat is Primary forest, second growth, dense thickets, scrub, cultivated areas, rubber plantations across south Asia east from Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka to the Southeast Asia. It mainly lives on insects, but also is known to catch small lizards and small mammals. occasionally catches insects in flight, like a flycatcher!

BLUE-FACED MALKOHA

March 2017

 1116                 BLUE-FACED MALKOHA                Rhopodytes viridirostris

SRI LANKA             142

Found in dense scrub and secondary growth. 39 cm. Uncommon breeding resident from lowlands to mid hills of dry and intermediate areas.

GREEN-BILLED MALKOHA

Photographed in Chitwen National Park, Nepal March 2017

1049               GREEN-BILLED MALKOHA                  Rhopodytes tristis

NEPAL              144

Found in dense broadleaf forest and thickets. 38 cm. Locally fairly common resident.