Distribution
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Found as a vagrant on Christmas Island. The subspecies ''H. s. bocki'' of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo is usually considered a separate species, the dark hawk-cuckoo.Behavior
They call in summer and the goes on well after dusk.Like many other cuckoos, this species is a brood parasite.
File:Garrulax lineatus.jpg|Streaked laughingthrush
File:Myophonus caeruleus - Ang Khang edit1.jpg|Blue whistling thrush
File:Zoothera dauma - Ang Khang.jpg|Scaly thrush
Complete list of Large Hawk Cuckoo's nest-host
# Actinodura nipalensis
# Alcippe nipalensis
# Arachnothera longirostris
# Arachnothera magna
# Brachypteryx leucophris
# Brachypteryx nipalensis
# Cettia fortipes
# Garrulax pectoralis
# Garrulax phoeniceus
# Garrulax cineraceus
# Garrulax lineatus
# Garrulax rufogularis
# Garrulax nigrimentum
# Garrulax mitratus
# Garrulax erythrocephalus
# Garrulax monileger
# Garrulax subcaerulatus
# Geokichla citrina
# Lanius cristatus
# Lanius nigriceps
# Leiothrix lutea
# Muscicapa hodgsoni
# Muscicapa macgregoriae
# Muscicapa parva
# Muscicapa rubeculoides
# Myophonus caeruleus
# Pellorneum ignotum
# Pellorneum ruficeps
# Pomatorhinus erythrogenys
# Pycnonotus cafer
# Stachyris nigriceps
# Stachyris ruficeps
# Stachyris rufifrons
# Suya khasiana
# Turdoides sp.
# Turdus dauma
# Yuhina flavicollis
# Yuhina occipitalis
Habitat
Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.References:
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