[2] The grey-bellied cuckoo breeds in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka to south China and Indonesia.

It has been reported from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

[1] It is a short-distance migrant, since birds at more northerly latitudes and on higher ground are summer visitors, leaving for warmer areas in winter.

[2] The grey-bellied cuckoo is a brood parasite and uses warblers as hosts.

This is a noisy species, with a persistent and loud pee-pip-pee-pee call, with its tail depressed.