Common breeding resident of home gardens, cultivations, scrublands,
forest edges of wet zone and dry forests throughout the island. It is a ground
feeder and food consist of almost any animal which is small enough to tackle
such as snails, lizards, insects, frogs, small snakes, eggs and nestlings of
birds etc. It hunts solitarily or as pairs. It appear to be pair for life time
and when feeding keep contacts with each other with call which sound like hoop
oop oop .... Breeding season is from
February to September and again from October to December. It lays two or three
eggs in a domed nest concealed in deep cover in thorny bushes or crown of a
palm.
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