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  The Sirkeer Malkoha or Sirkeer Cuckoo (Phaenicophaeus leschenaultii), is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the hoatzin. It is a resident bird in the Indian subcontinent. Distribution All of the sub-Himalayan Indian subcontinent, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka; patchy in Pakistan and Rajasthan. Sometimes considered as three races, varying in colouration.   Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net
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By W T Blanford, Eugene Oates - Fauna of British India. Birds, Public Domain, Link
Description • Size: A largish bird at 42 cm. • Appearance: Mainly earthy brown and rufous in colour, and the long heavy tail is edged with prominently white tipped graduated cross-rayed tail feathers. An obvious relation of the coucal (crow pheasant). Bill is hooked, bright cherry-red and yellow. Sexes are similar, but juveniles are duller and barred above. Habitat: Largely terrestrial, open scrub and thorn jungle, deciduous secondary jungle. Singly or in pairs. Behaviour: Stalks about amongst thickets like crow-pheasant, searching for food; insects, lizards, fallen fruits and berries, etc. Runs swiftly through undergrowth looking like mongoose. Feeble flier, but ascends trees rapidly, hopping from branch to branch with great agility, like the coucal. Call: Normally a subdued "bzuk... bzuk" ; also an alarm call of "p'tang" with a metallic quality. Food: A variety of insects, caterpillars and small vertebrates. It occasionally eats berries. Listen to the Sirkeer Malkoha
Sound from www.xeno-canto.org
Nesting This cuckoo, like other malkohas, is non-parasitic. Season - March to August (varying with latitude) Nest: a shallow saucer of twigs lined with green leaves, in a thorn bush such as Euphorbia, or sapling 2 to 7 m up. Eggs: 2 or 3, white, with a chalky texture. The scientific name of this bird commemorates the French botanist Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. Conservation status
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2.
International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 22nd of May 2017 Location: Yala National Park, Sri Lanka  Sirkeer Malkoha or Sirkeer Cuckoo
22 May 2017 - Yala National Park, Sri Lanka  Sirkeer Malkoha or Sirkeer Cuckoo
15 March 2018 - Tadoba Andhari Tiger Project, India  Sirkeer Malkoha or Sirkeer Cuckoo
26 March 2018 - Bardiya/ Bardia National Park, Nepal  Sirkeer Malkoha or Sirkeer Cuckoo
26 March 2018 - Bardiya/ Bardia National Park, Nepal  Sirkeer Malkoha or Sirkeer Cuckoo
26 March 2018 - Bardiya/ Bardia National Park, Nepal  Sirkeer Malkoha or Sirkeer Cuckoo
26 March 2018 - Bardiya/ Bardia National Park, Nepal PLEASE! If I have made any mistakes identifying any bird, PLEASE let me know on my guestbook 
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