Bar-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
This is the last of the Cuckoo-shrike that you can see in Malaysia. The give away feature is the whitish / yellowish white eye. The Lesser was also sighted see my field report 2/June. There was a pair of them chasing Drongos and the likes high in the canopy. If you compare the size it is about the size of the Greater Racquet-tailed Drongo almost a foot shown in the picture.
Gregarious noisy and conspicuous in nature. Usually travelling in small groups or in mixed flocks with other cuckoo-shrikes or Pied Trillers. It is a tree feeder looking for grub and insects on tree branches and leave. It tends to keep to the higher canopy. That is why we seldom see it. Supposedly fairly common.
It is found in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and swampland and mangrove forests. I got mine in Bukit Rengit.
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