Common Hawk-Cuckoo

The common hawk-cuckoo is a medium to large cuckoo, about the size of a pigeon at roughly 34cm. Its resemblance to a hawk gives the group its name. Like many cuckoos it is a brood parasite, laying a single blue egg in each nest, like that of the host, which is a babbler (Wikipedia, general species account).

It occurs in most of the Indian subcontinent, from Pakistan in the west across the Himalayan foothills east to Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and north-east India, and south into Sri Lanka. The account opened gives no call, habitat or diet detail, so none is stated.