Black-winged Cuckooshrike

The black-winged cuckooshrike, also called the lesser grey or dark grey cuckooshrike, is found in South to Southeast Asia. It has a broad-based black bill, grey upperparts, black wings, a white vent and a graduated white-tipped tail. It is a medium-sized, dark cuckooshrike with unbarred grey underparts; the male is dark grey above with contrasting black wings and tail (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds from north-east Pakistan through the lower Himalaya (Uttarakhand, Nepal, Arunachal Pradesh) into the hills of north-east Myanmar and on to China and Southeast Asia. It breeds in summer in the mountains at 300–2,450 m and migrates altitudinally or south in winter, occasionally as far as northern peninsular South Asia, Odisha, Bengal and Bangladesh, and even Kerala. It is found singly or in pairs and joins mixed feeding parties. The Korean vertebrate catalogue used for this guide records the species in South Korea.