Himalayan Cuckoo

The Himalayan cuckoo, formerly the Oriental cuckoo, is a brood-parasitic cuckoo about 30–35 cm long and 70–140 g. Adult males are dark ashy grey above with a brown, almost black, white-spotted and tipped tail. The area from the chin to the breast is ash-grey, the lower breast and abdomen white with black bars, and the vent white to milky orange, and the legs and feet yellow to orange with a yellow eye ring. Its call is a high note followed by three lower flat notes, like a muffled hoopoe (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds from the Himalaya eastward to southern China and Taiwan, usually above the tree line at 1,500–3,300 m in Kashmir, Myanmar and Nepal, and migrates to Southeast Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands for the winter (Wikipedia, general species account).