the english name of koel bird is the cuckoo.
what is the english name of koel bird?
the cuckoo
in bangladesh, they parasitise long-tailed shrike ("lanius schach"), common myna ("acridotheres tristis") and house crows ("corvus splendens") at about 35.7, 31.2 and 10.8% rates respectively. host nests at low heights and nearer to fruit trees tended to be preferred by koels. in southern thailand and the malay peninsula, koels have shifted host from crows to mynas ("acridotheres" sp.) as the latter became more common in the late 1900s. in the indian subcontinent they have sometimes been found to parasitize the black drongo, the european magpie and possibly the black-headed oriole. males may distract the hosts so that the female gets a chance to lay an egg in the nest. more often however, the female visits the nest of the host alone. the koel is not known to lay eggs in an empty host nest and a study in pakistan found that the first koel eggs were laid, on average, within one and half days of the laying of the host's first egg. the chicks of the koel hatched about 3 days ahead of the host chicks. koels usually lay only an egg or two in a single nest but as many as seven to eleven eggs have been reported from some host nests. a female may remove a host egg before laying. eggs hatch in 12 to 14 days. the young koel does not always push out eggs or evict the host chicks, and initially calls like a crow. the young fledge in 20 to 28 days. unlike some other cuckoos, the young do not attempt to kill the host chicks, a trait that is shared with the channel-billed cuckoos which are also largely frugivorous as adults. it has been suggested that koels, like some other brood parasites do not evict the host chicks due presumably due to the higher cost of evicting nestmates. a small parasite may not be able to evict large host eggs or chicks from a deep corvid nest without risking starvation and possibly accidental self-eviction. an alternative hypothesis that retaining host chicks might benefit the koel chicks did not gain much support. adult female parents have been known to feed young koels in the nests of the hosts, a behaviour seen in some other brood parasitic species as well. adult males have however not been noted to feed fledglings.
asian koel
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the koel is a genus of birds.





















































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bullet::::- koel (am), a radio station (950 am) licensed to oelwein, iowa, united states





















































bullet::::- koel-fm, a radio station (98.5 fm) licensed to cedar falls, iowa, united states





















































bullet::::- south koel river, a river in jharkhand, india, a tributary of the brahmani river





















































bullet::::- north koel river, a river in jharkhand, india, a tributary of the son river





















































section::::people with the name.





















































bullet::::- ditmar koel (1500s–1563), captain, pirate hunter and mayor of hamburg





















































bullet::::- gerard koel (born 1941), dutch cyclist
koel (disambiguation)