Territorial call of the Lesser Coucal

Jeremiah Loei’s video clip shows a Lesser Coucal (Centropus bengalensis) perching on a branch among a tangle of vegetation making its territorial call.

This call is a series of wuup-uup-uup-uup-uup-uup – sometimes with an additional uup.

This territorial call was recorded in Singapore. Note that there will be variations of the call in different countries.

Jeremiah Loei
Singapore
January 2014

Reference:
Robson, C., 2008. A field guide to the birds of South-east Asia. New Holland, London. 544 pp.