Black-winged Cuckooshrike

This female Black-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina melaschistos was photographed at distance in rather poor early morning light.

Black-winged Cuckooshrike aka Lesser Grey Cuckooshrike or Dark Grey Cuckooshrike is a species of cuckooshrike found in South to Southeast Asia. Despite the name, cuckooshrikes are unrelated to shrikes or cuckoos. They have broad based bills with grey upper parts, black wings, white vent, graduated white-tipped tails, black bills and legs. Females are overall lighter in all taxa.

Black-winged Cuckooshrike breed in summer in mountains from 300–2450 metres and migrate altitudinally or south in winter. The species is distributed from North-east Pakistan through the lower Himalayan region (Uttarakhand, Nepal, Arunachal Pradesh and into the hills of NE Myanmar continuing to China and South-east Asia. It winters in the foothills, occasionally longer distances south west to northern parts of peninsular India and east to Orissa and Bengal but may travel as far south as Kerala.

The species breeds in deciduous and broad-leaved evergreen forest but winters in open forest, groves, singly or in pairs. They are also known to join mixed feeding parties. Their diet consists mainly of caterpillars, beetles and other bugs.

Source: Wikipedia