Black winged cuckoo shrike
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PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON #653. OBSERVE THE BIRD AND RECOGNIZE...BLACK WINGED CUCKOO SHRIKE ... WATERCOLOUR...A4.... 2016..[From the photograph of Mr. NILADRI KARMAKAR ]... The black-winged cuckooshrike or lesser grey cuckoo-shrike or dark grey cuckooshrike (Coracina melaschistos) is a species of cuckooshrike found in Southto Southeast Asia. Despite the name, they ( cuckooshrikes ) are unrelated to shrikesor cuckoos. They have broad based bills with grey upper parts, black wings, white vent, graduated white-tipped tails, black bills and legs. Females are overall lighter in all taxa. It is distributed from Northeast Pakistan through the lower Himalayan region (Uttarakhand, Nepal. Arunachal Pradesh and into the hills of NE Myanmar continuing to China and Southeast Asia. Call: Loud twit twit to we, descending in scale. Their diet consists mainly of caterpillars, beetles and other bugs.
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