2day i saw two male cuckoos............trying 2 woo a female cuckoo.......i think this is their mating season..........the male cuckoo was shinning black........while the female was spotted with brown and white.................last year i saw a cuckoo nestling being fed by its foster parents 'crows'................the crow by then had realized that it was not their own young ones so was trying 2 avoid the cuckoo.............but it was persistently following it asking to be fed............finally the crow put some pieces of bread in cuckoo's open mouth from its beak and flew.............so seen for the first time the 'Kawwa-koel' story read as a child...........:)