Oriental Hobby

The Oriental hobby is a falcon typically 27 to 30 cm long, found patchily from the Indo-Gangetic Plain and eastern Himalayas east across southern China and the Philippines and south through Indochina to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Adults are rich orange-red below and bluish-grey above with a black hood and pale throat. The legs, eye-ring and cere are bright yellow. The sexes look alike (Wikipedia, general species account).

It feeds mainly on insects and birds, rarely catching bats, and lives in lowland forest and woodland, nesting in old nests of other birds. It has been recorded as a vagrant from southern India.