TL;DR: Going cuckoo – when breakfast gives you brain fever!
Grappling with freshly caught breakfast, a young Common Hawk-cuckoo tries and fails! A story of growing up — and evolution
Tag: common hawk-cuckoo
The next time you ignore a drongo…
A birding lesson from the field: Don’t pass up a drongo — or any black bird with a forked tail Towards the end of our Parambikulam tramway trek, as I dragged my weary feet past a tree on which was perched a dark bird with a telltale fork at the…
Encounter: The Brain Fever bird
When I was a child, the Brain Fever Bird was one of my mystery birds. Its plaintive call, rising to a feverish crescendo, kept me awake on many moonlit nights. I was to encounter the bird again, and again, and again, and each time the story wedged itself deeper in my imagination