From a 16-ft king cobra in Kerala to a trapped koel in Delhi, these four animal rescues show how ordinary people across India ...

Many northern Australians have colourful memories of the koel, with the bird's distinctive and haunting mating cry echoing through rural and suburban neighbourhoods each spring.

Bad times come and go, but the kapok blossoms and koel bird songs - a striking staple of Hong Kong in spring - remain Native to tropical Asia, Bombax ceiba, commonly known as kapok, is now so ...

Some describe the eastern koel as “demonic birds” for their constant mating calls, others say the native cuckoos with beautiful plumage are “absolute magic”.

While winter migrants return to the north, summer migratory birds arrive from the south. Of Nepal's 19 koel species, 13 practise brood parasitism.

When the Koel sings… As the most romanticised bird in literature, the Koel has been a common imagery of love. But here’s an antidote to that soft face of the cuckoo ...

Then a piercing bird call rings from one of the trees beside the flats – ooh woooo, ooh woooo. You may not know the name of this bird but many Singapore residents instantly recognise its ...

NATURE Call of the koel For almost nine months of the year, the Asian koel is seldom seen because it neither sings nor calls except in the breeding season, writes Lt-Gen Baljit Singh (retd) ...

Ah, the Asian koel. Even if you don’t know this cuckoo bird by name, you’d probably know it by its distinctively aggravating call: that loud 'ku-oo' sound waking you up early in the morning. A ...

Koel spring mating call drives residents crazy THE NIGHT call of the koel is one of the most common — and irritating — sounds of spring — known to keep people awake in homes across Sydney ...