Black-headed Cuckooshrike
Lalage melanoptera
The Black-headed Cuckooshrike is a 18-20 cm slender bird found in the Indian subcontinent with distinct sexual dimorphism. Males feature a dark slaty-grey hood, neck, and upper breast, contrasting with a pale grey back and white belly. They have blackish wings with grey edges and white-tipped tail feathers. The females are duller, with brownish-grey upperparts, a whitish supercilium (eyebrow), and heavily barred underparts with a dark grey bill.
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Black-winged Cuckooshrike
Lalage melaschistos
A medium-sized, dark cuckoo-shrike with unbarred, grey underparts. Male: dark grey above; contrasting black wings and tail. Wide white feather tips on underside of tail. Female: Palers with faint barring on underside Call: Loud twit twit to we, descending in scale. Diet: mainly invertebrates. Nests in tree.
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