Scarlet Minivet

The scarlet minivet is a small cuckooshrike, 20 to 22 cm long with a strong dark beak and long wings, found in tropical southern Asia from northeast India to southern China, Indonesia and the Philippines. It is a common resident breeder in forests and well-wooded habitats including gardens, especially in hilly country. Males of most subspecies have black upperparts and head and scarlet to orange underparts, tail edges, rump and wing patches, while females are usually yellow with greyish-olive upperparts (Wikipedia, general species account).