Scientific name: Psittacula alexandri
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae

Also called: Short-winged Cuckoo

The Indian Cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, that is found in Asia from Pakistan and India, Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and north to China and Russia. It is a solitary and shy bird, found in forests and open woodland at up to 3,600 m.

The Indian Cuckoo is a brood parasite. It lays a single egg mostly in the nests of drongos and crows. It removes and eats an egg from the host nest before laying its own.

They feed on hairy caterpillars and other insects but sometimes take fruits. They usually feed on the upper canopy, gleaning insects, sometimes making aerial sallies for flying termites or rarely even by hovering lower near the ground.