Brush Cuckoo

20-23 cm. Plain small cuckoo: grey-brown above; grey breast washed buff; undertail-coverts buff. Tail squarer than Fan-tailed, with white notching on inner webs, white tips; eye-ring grey; legs grey-pink. Female usually similar to male but in the little-known barred morph the adult female resembles an immature, though less warm brown tones. Juvenile: more variegated pattern than imm. Fan-tailed: brown above with plentiful buff streaks and angular feather-margins; wing and tail feathers deeply notched buff; breast brokenly mottled, white underparts more openly barred dark brown. Singles, pairs, displaying parties: unobtrusive, but revealed by distinctive, incessant call. Perches in leafy trees; flies to take insects in foliage or on ground. Sustained flight swift, undulating, showing pale wingbar.