My Malkoha no 3 First time up close and
intimidate with a family of 3. We r talking 20-25 ft away and I tried not to
startle them as I snap away. I was very surprise to see them so
low......usually there r at the tree canopy
It was late morning on the way out just past the bridge on the main track. It was a feeding frenzy as they dart from branch to branch on the wild ficus tree searching for grub. For a moment the male RM started what I think is a mating dance le to entice its mate. It cannot be chilly though the weather was then overcast.
Spend almost a full 30 minutes with them and then suddenly the male just dive down to the ground next to the bridge followed by junior. I never encounter this behaviour. Apparently they found grub - large spider argh!
After the feeding time the threesome just rest on the canopy of the medium size tree as I bid adios & see ya !
Malkohas is actually one of the 7 subspecies of Cuckoo ... Cuculidae allies of southeast Asia. These are mostly big, rangy, long-tailed forest birds which live up in the canopy, but they also include the three species of rare and elusive Asian ground-cuckoos.
Several species are just big gray yellow-billed birds, but some of those in Sumatra or the Philippines are truly striking and colorful. Some species have outrageous crests; one in the Philippines has scale-like rows of odd feathers down the throat and over the crown. Most of the malkohas have bare skin around the eyes, and so do the three species which have evolved a terrestrial life-style.
These latter birds are three ground-cuckoos (genus Carpococcyx) in southeast Asia. Although there are ground-cuckoos in the New World, these Asian ground-cuckoos are not closely related. One species, the large and very impressive-appearing Coral-billed Ground-Cuckoo C. renauldi, lives on the Asian mainland in Thailand and Indochina. The others are endemics to Borneo and to Sumatra.
It was late morning on the way out just past the bridge on the main track. It was a feeding frenzy as they dart from branch to branch on the wild ficus tree searching for grub. For a moment the male RM started what I think is a mating dance le to entice its mate. It cannot be chilly though the weather was then overcast.
Spend almost a full 30 minutes with them and then suddenly the male just dive down to the ground next to the bridge followed by junior. I never encounter this behaviour. Apparently they found grub - large spider argh!
After the feeding time the threesome just rest on the canopy of the medium size tree as I bid adios & see ya !
Malkohas is actually one of the 7 subspecies of Cuckoo ... Cuculidae allies of southeast Asia. These are mostly big, rangy, long-tailed forest birds which live up in the canopy, but they also include the three species of rare and elusive Asian ground-cuckoos.
Several species are just big gray yellow-billed birds, but some of those in Sumatra or the Philippines are truly striking and colorful. Some species have outrageous crests; one in the Philippines has scale-like rows of odd feathers down the throat and over the crown. Most of the malkohas have bare skin around the eyes, and so do the three species which have evolved a terrestrial life-style.
These latter birds are three ground-cuckoos (genus Carpococcyx) in southeast Asia. Although there are ground-cuckoos in the New World, these Asian ground-cuckoos are not closely related. One species, the large and very impressive-appearing Coral-billed Ground-Cuckoo C. renauldi, lives on the Asian mainland in Thailand and Indochina. The others are endemics to Borneo and to Sumatra.
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