GREEN-BILLED MALKOHA

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

(1049*)                        GREEN-BILLED MALKOHA                  Phaenicophaeus tristis

                

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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!