GREEN-BILLED COUCAL

March 2017

1133         GREEN-BILLED COUCAL               Centropus chlorohynchos

SRI LANKA            163

Endemic. Globally threatened Found in tall forest with dense undergrowth, preferably of dwarf bamboo. 43 cm. Fairly rare, locally in wet lowlands to mid hills.

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.

LESSER COUCAL

Kochi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal March 2017

LESSER COUCAL                 Centropus bengalensis

NEPAL                85

Found in tall grass, roadbeds and shrubberies. 33 cm. Locally fairly common resident, mainly in protected areas; areas in the south.

GREATER COUCAL

Photographed at Kossi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal March 2017

991       GREATER COUCAL                    Centropus sinensis

NEPAL               45

Found in tall grass near cultivation. 48 cm. Common and widespread resident.