Asian Emerald Cuckoo

The Asian emerald cuckoo grows to about 18cm. The adult male has an iridescent dark green head, upperparts and upper breast, a white lower breast and a green-barred belly. Bare skin round the eye is orange and the bill is orange-yellow tipped with black. Both sexes show a white band on the underwing in flight (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its breeding range extends from the Himalayas east to Myanmar, China and northern Thailand. It is a brood parasite, laying eggs in the nests of other birds such as the crimson sunbird and the little spiderhunter. It mainly forages in the upper canopy, feeding on insects and other small invertebrates, and further south it is a vagrant or migrant, not known to breed (Wikipedia, general species account).