PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN ... (Observe the Bird and recognize)..CHESNUT WINGED CUCKOO

PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 502/520 (Observe the Bird and recognize)..CHESNUT WINGED CUCKOO..[From a Photograph of MR. NAGESH VANNUR] ... WATERCOLOUR ...A4...2015... The chestnut-winged cuckoo or red-winged crested cuckoo (Clamator coromandus) is a cuckoo found in Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. It has dark glossy upperparts, a black head with long crest chestnut wings, a long graduated glossy black tail, rufous throat dusky underside and a narrow white nuchal half collar. They breed along the Himalayas and migrate south in winter to Sri Lanka, southern India and tropical Southeast Asia including parts of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. It is about 47 cm long.
The species is found from the western Himalayas to the eastern Himalayas and extends into Southeast Asia. It has been recorded from India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Laos, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Some populations may be non-migratory.
During migration in India, it moves along the Eastern Ghats in its southward migration with exhausted individuals often being discovered in the vicinity of homes. In mid-October, they are found in numbers at Point Calimere, possibly in to Sri Lanka. Some appear to winter in the Western Ghats.
The calls include fluty twin-notes repeated with short intervals.[INFO:WIKIPEDIA]