GREATER COUCAL

Subspecies parroti, photographed March 2017

(*   991)                     GREATER COUCAL                 Centropus sinensis

SRI LANKA                 50

Also known as Southern Coucal. Found in forest edges of wet zone, dry forest, scrub and thickets in gardens and around cultivation. 48 cm. Common breeding resident throughout Sri Lanka. 

NOTE: If Greater Coucal , C. sinensis, is split this would be called Southern Coucal, C parroti.