Prakruti Parichay
CuculidaeRhopodytes

Blue-faced Malkoha

Rhopodytes viridlrostns

39–39 cmLarge
Beak
—
Feet
—
Crest
No crest

Resident. Peninsular India and Sri Lanka. From the larger Green-billed Malkoha (which it replaces in S India and Sri Lanka) in having blue rather than red eye-patch. darker green coloration to head a ndnape (lacking pale-streaked supercilium), darker grey throat and breast with bullish streaking, distinctly bullish lower belly and vent, and broader white tips to tail feathers (especially apparentfr ombelow). Habits similar to Green-billed's. Formerly placed in PhaflflicophBBus. Bushes, thorn scrub a ndsecondary growth.

Colour

GreenBlueRedGrey
Average size
39 cm
Habitat
Bushes, thorn scrub a ndsecondary growth.
Behaviour
Resident., Habits similar to Green-billed's. Formerly placed in PhaflflicophBBus.

About this bird

Resident. Peninsular India and Sri Lanka. From the larger Green-billed Malkoha (which it replaces in S India and Sri Lanka) in having blue rather than red eye-patch. darker green coloration to head a ndnape (lacking pale-streaked supercilium), darker grey throat and breast with bullish streaking, distinctly bullish lower belly and vent, and broader white tips to tail feathers (especially apparentfr ombelow). Habits similar to Green-billed's. Formerly placed in PhaflflicophBBus. Bushes, thorn scrub a ndsecondary growth.

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Blue-faced Malkoha is bigger than Barbary Falcon but smaller than Crab-plover.

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Blue-faced Malkoha

Rhopodytes viridlrostns

39–39 cm