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Sitting in the monsoon hot humid sun, a Coucal dries its body and chest, jutting its chest forward to dry itself after a foray into a pond, in trying to get a frog. An opportunistic feeder with a ruby red eye, the Crow Pheasant will eat carrion, kill rats and steal birds' eggs and chicks, as also catch lizards and other reptiles. This Coucal hops along in an injured fashion on our lawn, looking for morsels. A vision in rufous and black: Greater Coucal or Crow Pheasant is really a Cuckoo, as seen at Wilderness Orchard A Lesser Coucal or Crow-Pheasant stalks among old wire and shrubbery at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi: From the Cuckoo family, actually, and neither a crow nor a pheasant!
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