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, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

This is a very shy bird. It is seen early in the mornings picking up and eating the snails in the garden. It watches the nests of birds and attacks and eats the young birdlings from the nests before they learn to fly.

'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

Greater Coucal - Centropus sinensis, Avissawella, Sri Lanka

Video:-

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