drongo cuckoo

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Just beautifully done - I believe in your birds, they just seem to belong exactly where you place them and the little details of branches, and leaves that you add anchor them in reality.

Thanks a lot Robert Jones for the encouraging words...

PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 373 (Observe the Bird and recognize)..SQUARE/FORK TAILED DRONGO CUCKOO [From a Photograph of Mr. S.OM PRAKASH]... ....WATERCOLOUR...A4...2014... The square-tailed drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris) is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo. It is found in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia and is a summer visitor to the Himalayas from Kashmir to eastern Bangladesh. The calls are series of piercing sharp whistles rising in pitch but shrill and choppily delivered. It can be easily distinguished by its straight beak and the white barred vent and outer undertail, and the tail only notched with slightly flared tips. In flight a white wing-stripe is visible from below. It is a brood parasite on small babblers. It is not known how or whether the drongo-like appearance benefits this species but it is suspected that it aids in brood-parasitism just as hawk-cuckoos appear like hawks. Some recent work suggested that the species was conspecific with the fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo and together known as the Asian drongo-cuckoo, but should be split based on call and morphological differences:. That treatment is taken here. The FORK TAILED drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus dicruroides) is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo. It is found resident mainly in peninsular India in hill forests although some specimens are known from the Himalayan foothills. It can be easily distinguished by its straight beak and the white barred vent. It has a deeply forked tail often having a white spot on the back of the head. The song has been described as a series of 5 or 6 whistling "pip-pip-pip-pip-pip-" notes rising in pitch with each "pip". [INFO : WIKIPEDIA]