Chestnut-winged Cuckoo

The chestnut-winged cuckoo is a crested cuckoo about 47cm long, with dark glossy upperparts, a black head and crest, chestnut wings, a rufous throat and a long graduated black tail. It has been recorded from India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, China, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is a brood parasite with a summer breeding season, said to lay its eggs mainly in the nests of laughingthrushes, especially two Garrulax species, and the eggs are very spherical. The account opened gives no diet or habitat detail, so none is stated.