AJP noticed these Larger Coucals (Centropus sinensis) within the backyard on a scorching day final week. Resident in Hong Kong they’re recognized to sunbathe, notably within the mornings. Extra usually they’re noticed clambering round shrubs or on the bottom seeking meals, animal and vegetable. They make quick flights however all the time seeming to have issue in doing so.
For many years these birds wered often known as crow-pheasants since they do resemble each a crow and a pheasant. Nonetheless they’re cuckoos however not brood parasitic ones, constructing a well-hidden nest in Could and June.
They had been one closely trapped on the market in Chinese language drugs. We discovered noose traps, unlawful then as now, which used a bent twig because the spring, set alongside a path within the New Territories in January 1968
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| A noose lure set on a observe (which should now be a part of the Maclehose Path) January 1968 |
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