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- noun Plural form of
koel .
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Examples
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Male koels are blue-black with a striking red eye and a long tail.
Archive 2009-02-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009
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You can often spot males perched in high positions calling and displaying, but koels are shy and are unlikely to let you approach them.
Koel Ivan Donn Carswell 2009
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Male koels are blue-black with a striking red eye and a long tail.
Koel Ivan Donn Carswell 2009
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You can often spot males perched in high positions calling and displaying, but koels are shy and are unlikely to let you approach them.
Archive 2009-02-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009
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Dunno koels, but try a whippoorwill under your bedroom window at night.
How I know I am Home Glenda Larke 2008
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The nesting season is now at its height for the white-necked storks, the koels and their dupes -- the house-crows, also for the various babblers and their deceivers -- the brain-fever birds and the pied crested cuckoos.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Something approaching pandemonium reigns in the neighbourhood of a colony of nesting crows: from dawn till nightfall the shrieks and yells of the koels mingle with the harsh notes of the crows.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Very few crows emerge from the egg before the 1st of July, but, during the last week in June, numbers of baby koels are hatched out.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Through the greater part of June and July the koels keep the crows busy chasing them.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Young koels fall into three classes: those of which the feathers are all black, those of which a few feathers have white or reddish tips, those which are speckled black and white all over because each feather has a white tip.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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