Green-billed Malkoha

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When to see the Green-billed Malkoha

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Green-billed Malkoha

The map shades 12 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Green-billed Malkoha

The green-billed malkoha is a species of non-parasitic cuckoo found throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The birds are waxy bluish black with a long graduated tail with white tips to the tail feathers. The bill is prominent and curved. These birds are found in dry scrub and thin forests.

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Easily confused with

Blue-faced MalkohaPhaenicophaeus viridirostrisA largish species at 39 cm, its back and head are dark grey with an oily green or blue gloss, and the dark tail has graduated feathers tipped with white. Chestnut-breasted MalkohaPhaenicophaeus curvirostrisMeasuring 42–49 cm (17–19 in) in length, the chestnut-breasted malkoha has a large, curved, pale yellow upper mandible and darker red or black lower mandible, and a bare red patch of rough skin around the eye. Black-bellied MalkohaPhaenicophaeus diardiThe black-bellied malkoha is a species of malkoha in the family Cuculidae.

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