Medium-sized Birds

There is quite a range of bird types that fit into this medium category, from pigeons to cuckoos with crows and bee-eaters to boot.

Crows

The stunning and remarkably tame Rufous Treepie -

Dendrocitta vagabunda - Easier to photograph when 

not perched on your hat!

Rufous Treepie - Dendrocitta vagabunda - that beak looks like pewter.

Large-billed Crow - Corvus macrorhynchos - also called the Jungle Crow. This

one at Bharatpur

Doves

Laughing Dove - Streptopelia senegalensis - presumably called so from its call.

This one showing its subtle blue wing patch, in the hotel garden at Varanasi 

where we also saw the Ashy Prinia and a Common Tailorbird that didn't stop 

for photos.

Yellow Footed Green Pigeons - Treron Phoenicoptera - at Bharatpur

Others

One slightly ruffled Green Bee-eater - Merops orientalis - at Bharatpur

Greater Coucal - Centropus sinensis - never out of shadow and in focus at the same time. At Bharatpur where we also saw the equally red-eyed Asian Koel.

Common Hawk Cuckoo - Hierococcyx varius - I think.
There are a number of similar cuckoos in a not very well
illustrated book.  Where's Richard Lewington when you
need him?

Common Hawk Cuckoo - Hierococcyx varius - from
the front. At Bharatpur.

Rose-ringed Parakeet - Psittacula krameri - not a natural setting but they do get everywhere. At Bharatpur.

Relatively scarce and shy Eurasian Thick-knee - Burhinus oedicnemus -
At Bharatpur.