common hawk cuckoo call | brain fever bird call | Hierococcyx varius call | पावश्या

Описание: Call of Common Hawk Cuckoo

1. A loud, screaming, brain-fever, brain-fever, repeated with monotonous persistency 5 or 6 times, rising in crescendo and ending abruptly. Heard all through the day and frequently during moonlit nights. The call is rendered in Hindi as pee-kahan ? (Where is my love?) and in Marathi as paos-ala (Rain’s coming!).
Ref: The Book of Indian Birds – by Salim Ali

2. Call as large but more shrill and manic. Becomes more vocal during hot weather.
Ref: Birds of the Indian Subcontinent – Richard Grimmet, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp