Adolescent Greater Coucal - Centropus sinensis, Honiton Place, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Greater Coucal - Centropus sinensis, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Greater Coucal - Centropus sinensis, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Useful because it eats up the snails and molluscs in the garden. It is a danger to the chicks of other birds. It raids the nests just before the chicks take flight and has a good meal of the chicks.

'Greater Coucal' - Centropus sinensis, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

The couple foraging in tandem.

Molluscs which have come out at night are caught by these birds early in the morning.

'Greater Coucal' - Centropus sinensis, Avissawella, Sri Lanka

A predator, kills all the garden snails but it also plucks and eats fledgling chicks from birds' nests, just when they are about to fly.
Video:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fgApAOD0UI

'Grater Coucal' -Centropus sinensis, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Greater Coucal - Centropus sinensis, Avissawella, Sri Lanka

Video:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fgApAOD0UI