Cradling an Asian koel in his hands, wildlife officer Zaheer Ahmed gently stretched its wings as part of a health checkup to ...

Sexual dimorphism is evident, where males are a glossy black with a greenish sheen to their bodies and females are brown with white dots on their wings and heavy streaking on their head and throat.

The South West Monsoon has set in and the nippy mornings are punctuated by the mellifluous call of the cuckoo. The bird has been the muse of great poets and writers and cuckoo songs are associated ...

The Koha or Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) is considered the harbinger of Sinhala and Tamil New Year for its beautiful song aimed at attracting a mate. Its call can also be heard beyond Sri ...

Michael Palin presents the Asian koel's arrival to an Indian orchard. This long-tailed glossy blue-black bird, is a well-known British harbinger of spring, and like its British counterpart, it is a ...

A few months ago, I actually won an argument with my wife. The run-up to this newsworthy event started on our morning walk, when we heard (what I thought was) an unusual bird call. “But that’s just a ...

The plight of an injured bird — hailing from a very common species — but hopping around the garden of Nandita Sekhon in Sector 12, Panchkula, was destined to traverse the far seas to London. This was ...

Ah, the Asian koel. Even if you don’t know this cuckoo bird by name, you’d probably know it by its distinctively aggravating call: that loud 'ku-oo' sound waking you up early in the morning. A woman ...