Purple Cochoa Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Zoothera dauma
Family : Turdidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : All kind forests, Villages
Description : The Purple Cochoa is a medium sized forest bird brown to purple-brown bird with a pale crown (length 28 cm, weight 103 g, wing 14 cm, bill 2.4 cm, tarsus 3 cm, tail 10 cm). The male differs from the female. The male looks purplish-brown from above and brownish-purple from below. It has pale lavender-silver primaries with a black band in the middle and black tips, and a purple-lavender tail with a black tip. Its crown is pale lavender-blue contrasting with its rusty-brown mantle and black face and ear-coverts. The female looks rufous-brown from above and brownish orange from below but otherwise has similar markings to the male. Both sexes have crimson-brown or red-brown irises, lavender orbital skin, black bill and slaty-black legs. It breeds in the hills of north-east India in May-July. It feeds mainly on insects, molluscs, slugs and berries.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Turdus albocinctus
(Dusky Thrush) -
Zoothera mollissima/salimalii
(Dark‑sided Thrush) -
Turdus atrogularis
(Rufous-throated Thrush) -
Eumyias thalassinus
(Pale Blue-flycatcher) -
Muscicapa ferruginea
(Brown-breasted Flycatcher) -
Tarsiger indicus
(Slaty‑backed Forktail) -
Ficedula superciliaris
(Little Pied Flycatcher) -
Zoothera marginata
(Long‑billed Thrush) -
Luscinia svecica
(Firethroat) -
Turdus obscurus
(Tibetan Blackbird)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills
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Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters
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Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits
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Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas
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Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby
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Flamingo
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Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch
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Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths
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Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes
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Nightjars -
Barn-owls
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Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Rejoice Gassah (www.inaturalist.org/people/Rejoice Gassah ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Frank Lambertmore information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Rejoice Gassah (www.inaturalist.org/people/Rejoice Gassah ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Frank Lambertmore information, please contact us.