My first shots of a juvenile Indian Cuckoo. At first I mistook this for a female Asian Koel but took another look after seeing its flight pattern. A closer look at the eyes confirmed this as being a cuckoo. They usually feed on the upper canopy, gleaning insects, sometimes making aerial sallies for flying termites or rarely even by hovering lower near the ground. The Indian Cuckoo is a brood parasite. It lays its single egg mostly in the nests of drongos and crows. It removes and eats an egg from the host nest before laying its own.
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