A female koel has to time it just right to lay her egg in the nest of another bird species. (Facebook: Birds of Australia/Anita Flynn)But it is the persistence and volume of the call, which often ...

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 June 24, 2025 e-Paper ...

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

Call of the koel. For almost nine months of the year, ... need to check on the state of health of their birds who "Brood Parasites" the crow. HOME ...

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.

The only exception is the Asian koel (a large and long-tailed cuckoo), which has yet to arrive. The Asian koel travels over 6,000 miles from Sub-Saharan Africa, passing through Ethiopia, Somalia ...

Koel spring mating call drives residents crazy. ... “For a bird that advertises its presence, it is often difficult to see as it tends to call from high up in the thickest foliage of the tree ...

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 ...

Mark Walter claims a storm bird, otherwise known as an eastern koel, has been whistling from a tree “six nights out of seven” every week for more than two months and it is driving him mad.