Greater Coucal (Centropus sinensis)
Image Copyright Perry Stevens
Last Observed: March 2016 – Koh Chang
Last Observed By: Perry Stevens
The greater coucal is also known, endearingly if rather confusingly, as the crow pheasant. In fact it is a memebr of the cuckoo order of birds. they look a bit like crows though, except for the brown “jacket” that they sport.
They can’t fly very well, poor things and instead scramble around on teh forest floor looking for insects and also the eggs and hatchlings of other birds.
They are a large bird that grows up to 48 cm in length. Their deep, resounding call is associated in many places with omens, spirits and general spooky stuff, but that’s not the bird’s fault.
