koels

Male koels are blue-black with a striking red eye and a long tail.

Archive 2009-02-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

You can often spot males perched in high positions calling and displaying, but koels are shy and are unlikely to let you approach them.

Koel Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

Male koels are blue-black with a striking red eye and a long tail.

Koel Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

You can often spot males perched in high positions calling and displaying, but koels are shy and are unlikely to let you approach them.

Archive 2009-02-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

Dunno koels, but try a whippoorwill under your bedroom window at night.

How I know I am Home Glenda Larke 2008

The nesting season is now at its height for the white-necked storks, the koels and their dupes -- the house-crows, also for the various babblers and their deceivers -- the brain-fever birds and the pied crested cuckoos.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

Something approaching pandemonium reigns in the neighbourhood of a colony of nesting crows: from dawn till nightfall the shrieks and yells of the koels mingle with the harsh notes of the crows.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

Very few crows emerge from the egg before the 1st of July, but, during the last week in June, numbers of baby koels are hatched out.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

Through the greater part of June and July the koels keep the crows busy chasing them.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

Young koels fall into three classes: those of which the feathers are all black, those of which a few feathers have white or reddish tips, those which are speckled black and white all over because each feather has a white tip.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916