For the benefit of those unacquainted with the ways of the koel it is necessary to state that that bird spends much of its time fleeing before the wrath of crows.
The second of the great triumvirate is the Indian koel (Eudynamis honorata).
The koel (Eudynamis honorata) is perhaps the most interesting of our summer visitors.
The koel is sometimes erroneously called the brain-fever bird.
The young koel invariably emerges from the egg before his foster-brothers and thus begins life with a start.
If the hen koel gets away before the crows return they fail to notice the strange egg, although it differs markedly from their blue and yellow ones, being smaller and olive green blotched with yellow.
The natives assert that the hen koel keeps an eye on her offspring all the while they are in the crow's nest and takes charge of them after they leave it.
The cock koel is a jet black bird with a red eye and a green bill.
The other two calls are heard at all hours of the day and night, and it makes no difference to the koel whether it is the sun or the moon, or only the stars that are shining.
Sometimes the koel returns and lays a second egg in the same nest, and destroys all the legitimate eggs, for she can tell the difference between her eggs and those of the crow.
The life of the koel is by no means all beer and skittles.
The fact that I have seen specimens of all three kinds of koel nestling in one garden at Lahore would seem to militate somewhat against the theory that these correspond to different races or gentes.
Moreover, the koel lays four or five eggs, and these are not usually all deposited in one nest.
The mouth of the crow nestling is an enormous triangle with great fleshy flaps at the side; the mouth of the koel is much smaller and lacks the flaps.
The young koelwas successfully reared; it is now at large and will next year victimise some crow.
I once came across a young koel and a crow's egg in a nest.
The crow lays a pale blue egg blotched with brown, while the egg of the koel is a dull olive-green also blotched with brown.
But the incubating period of the koel is shorter than that of the crow, so that the koel's egg is always the first to hatch out.
The koel nestling has one point in common with young crows, and that is a large mouth of which the inside is red.
The young koel is a better-behaved bird than some of its relations, for it ejects neither the eggs still in the nest when it is hatched nor its foster-brethren.
THE KOEL Anglo-Indians frequently confound the koel with the brain-fever bird.
I may say that no human being could possibly fail to distinguish between a young koeland a young crow.
To return to the koel who is laying her egg in the momentarily deserted nest.
Crows appear to dislike the cry of the koel quite as much as men do.
Add to this the fact that the koel is a little larger than the "merry cuckoo, messenger of spring" which visits England, and it is impossible not to recognise the bird.
Even the wily crow is unable to "spot" the extra egg which the koelhas surreptitiously introduced into the nest.
I have never seen a koel feeding anything but itself.
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A Western ear finds no more in the tune of that cuculine bird, the Koel (Eudynamys honorata) than a tiresome iteration of one or two clear, high, and resonant notes.
Natives say crows hate the Koel because it selects their nests for its foundling eggs, which is very probable.
At Allahabad it is much persecuted by the Koel (Eudynamys orientalis), every fourth or fifth nest that I found in some topes of mango-trees having one or two of the Koel's eggs.
It is in this bird's nest that the Koel chiefly lays.
During the earlier part of the month the notes of the koel and the brain-fever bird are heard on rare occasions; before October has given place to November, these noisy birds cease to trouble.
The koel extends into the Punjab and is heard throughout Northern India.
At first the call of the koel is a squeak, but later it takes the form of a creditable, if ludicrous, attempt at a caw.
The Indian oriole is not the only species which finds the climate of the United Provinces too severe for it in winter; the koel and the paradise flycatcher likewise desert us in the coldest months.
The incubation period of the egg of the koel is shorter than that of the crow, the consequence is that when, as usually happens, there is one of the former and several of the latter in a nest, the young koel is invariably the first to emerge.
The koel is, if possible, more vociferous than ever, especially at the beginning of the month.
The sides of the mouth of the young koel are not fleshy.
The sight of the koel affects a crow in much the same way as a red cloth irritates a bull.
The brain-fever bird and the koel call so seldom in September that their cries, when heard, cause surprise.
The period of incubation for the koel's egg is shorter than that of the crow, hence at the outset the baby koel steals a march on his foster-brothers.
Koel nestlings, when they first emerge from the egg, differ greatly in appearance from baby crows.
No sooner are their backs turned than the hen koel slips quietly into the nest and deposits an egg in it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "koel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
