Black Faced Cuckoo Shrikes

Of mostly gray feathers with dark around the face

They like to move around from place to place 

Medium dove sized birds known to most as black faced cuckoo shrike

They do not seem to have a look alike

On alighting on a branch it seems to be their thing

To shuffle their wings thus some call them shufflewing

In many places birds one does not see every day

As some of them are quite migratory in their way

Insects in  flight and on trees they hunt and catch to eat

And to their taste buds ripened fruits a tasty treat

In small saucer shaped nest of sticks bound with spider webs on fork of tree

The female lay green dotted eggs mostly two sometimes three

Mostly silent with a brief low churring song

But from once seen and heard you will never again get them wrong

To look different from other birds their Nature's claim to fame

Black faced cuckoo shrikes for them a common name.