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Large Hawk Cuckoo
The Large Hawk-cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.
Original source: Lip Kee YapPermission(Reusing this file)This image, which was originally posted to Flickr.com, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 02:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC) by Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk). On that date it was licensed under the license below. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
Author: Lip Kee YapPermission(Reusing this file)This image, which was originally posted to Flickr.com, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 02:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC) by Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk). On that date it was licensed under the license below. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
The Large Hawk Cuckoo is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.
Yet another image of a possible Large Hawk Cuckoo shot at CKBS, Kolkata on last Sunday (11th April). Same bird as the one posted earlier by Abishek Das and myself. I have no expertise on this matter, but after going through all the images on the internet, the tail definitely looks like that of a Large Hawk Cuckoo to me. More
yellow-billed Large Hawk Cuckoo is said to sound like ‘brain-fever'. It is sometimes repeated in a crescendo scale until it ends in a piercing scream, after which the bird is silent for a few minutes, before it resumes from another vantage point. The ringing voice fills the air on campus from late spring and throughout the summer. The persistent, distinctive cry of the Plaintive Cuckoo makes it more often heard than seen. More
Family : Cuculidae
Genus : Cuculus
Species : sparverioides
Authority : Vigors, 1832