Himalayan Cuckoo

The Himalayan cuckoo, formerly called the Oriental cuckoo (a name now used for a separate species), is a brood-parasitic cuckoo about 30–35cm long and 70–140g. Adult males are dark ashy-grey above with a brown, almost black, tail spotted and tipped white. The chin to breast is ash-grey, the lower breast and abdomen white with black bars, and the legs and feet yellow to orange. The bill is black with an orange-yellow or green-yellow base (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds from the Himalayas through South-east Asia to eastern China and Taiwan, and is rarely found above 1,000m in the breeding season. It migrates to South-east Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands for the winter. Its call is a high note followed by three lower flat notes, like a hoopoe's but lower-pitched and more muffled (Wikipedia, general species account).