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Two schoolboys from Chennai document Plaintive cuckoo at Odiyur lake

In the north-eastern parts of the country, this bird is anything but rare; and in South India, it is not seen except as an occasional vagrant; records here are as scare as a hens teeth. Against this backdrop, recently Amoggh Vjay Chatty, a Grade X student of PSBB Millennium in Semmanchery and Aaditya S Rajesh, a Grade XI student of Maharishi Vidya Mandir in Chetpet, spotted and photographed a Plaintive cuckoo at Odiyur lake

4 Dec 2025 12:10 pm