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Asian OpenbillA relatively small stork species with a grayish to white body and black wings and tail with a hint of glos...
17/06/2020

Asian Openbill

A relatively small stork species with a grayish to white body and black wings and tail with a hint of gloss. The Asian Openbill gets its name from a distinctive gap in the dull grayish yellow bill. Note the pinkish legs. Asian Openbills inhabit wetland habitats including shallow marshes, flooded agricultural fields, and lakes. From a distance they could be confused with herons, but they can be clearly distinguished from herons by their feeding habits—wading slowly through shallow water.

Life begins 🌱 with lot of questions n doubts.. but the journey reveals the answers n purpose itself. Life begins with fi...
16/06/2020

Life begins 🌱 with lot of questions n doubts.. but the journey reveals the answers n purpose itself.
Life begins with first hurdle of breaking the surface.

Pigeon portrait
06/06/2020

Pigeon portrait

Game of Shadow and Light which creates Full(bright)🌕 and New(dark).. 🌑
06/06/2020

Game of Shadow and Light which creates Full(bright)🌕 and New(dark).. 🌑

Purple herons Ardea purpurea are a wide ranging bird species. They are year-round residents in southern Africa excluding...
26/05/2020

Purple herons Ardea purpurea are a wide ranging bird species. They are year-round residents in southern Africa excluding Nambia. They also reside year-round in India, Myanmar, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Jakarta and Indonesian islands. Subspecies of the purple heron include: Ardea purpurea madagascariensis residing in Madagascar, Ardea purpurea manilensis in Asian countries, and Ardea purpurea bournei only found in Cape Verde.
Purple herons have a vast breeding range scattered throughout the Palearctic Region that includes Eurasia. The patchy distribution includes as far north as Amsterdam, Spain, Greece, eastward to Kazakhstan. They have scattered populations in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran. They also have non-breeding populations in eastern China, North Korea, and the southeastern portion of Russia.


No Paparazzi Please 📸 📹Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.🤣🤣😄"Red-whiskered bulbul"😇 🍃...
21/05/2020

No Paparazzi Please 📸 📹
Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.🤣🤣😄
"Red-whiskered bulbul"😇




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The Great Thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris) is a very large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia...
19/05/2020

The Great Thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris) is a very large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka into South-east Asia.

This is a species of gravel banks along rivers or near lakes, and also beaches. A single egg is laid in a bare scrape on the open shingle.

It is mainly nocturnal or crepuscular (active during the twilight) like other stone-curlews, but can frequently be seen foraging by daylight, moving slowly and deliberately, with occasional short runs.

Location: Shivamogga, Karnataka

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The Indian roller is a stocky bird about 26–27 cm long and can only be confused within its range with the migratory Euro...
18/02/2020

The Indian roller is a stocky bird about 26–27 cm long and can only be confused within its range with the migratory European roller. The breast is brownish and not blue as in the European Roller. The crown and vent are blue. The primaries are deep purplish blue with a band of pale blue. The tail is sky blue with a terminal band of Prussian blue and the central feathers are dull green. The neck and throat are purplish lilac with white shaft streaks. The bare patch around the eye is ochre in colour. The three forward toes are united at the base. Rollers have a long and compressed bill with a curved upper edge and a hooked tip. The nostril is long and exposed and there are long rictal bristles at the base of the bill.
Three subspecies are usually recognized. The nominate form is found from western Asia (Iraq, Arabia) east across the Indian Subcontinent, and within India north of the Vindhyas mountain ranges. The subspecies indicus is found in peninsular India and Sri Lanka. The southern form has a darker reddish collar on the hind neck which is missing in the nominate form. The Indochinese roller of eastern India and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Myanmar, Indochina) has been suggested as a full species, but within the Indian region, it is seen to intergrade with benghalensis. The Indochinese roller is darker, larger and has a purplish brown and unstreaked face and breast. It has underwing coverts in a deeper shade of blue.

The Indian roller is distributed across Asia, from Iraq and United Arab Emirates in south-western Asia through the Indian Subcontinent, including Sri Lanka, Lakshadweep islands and Maldive Islands. Its main habitat includes cultivated areas, thin forest and grassland.

The Asian Openbill or Asian Openbill Stork, Anastomus oscitans, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. I...
09/01/2020

The Asian Openbill or Asian Openbill Stork, Anastomus oscitans, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.

It is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Southeast Asia.

The Asian Openbill Stork is a broad-winged soaring bird, which relies on moving between thermals of hot air for sustained flight.

Like all storks, it flies with its neck outstretched.

It is relatively small for a stork at 68cm length.

Breeding adults are all white except for the black wing flight feathers, red legs and dull yellow-grey bill. The mandibles do not meet except at the tip, and this gives rise to the species' name.

Non-breeding adults have the white of the plumage replaced by off-white.

Young birds have brown tinge to the plumage.

Location: Shivamogga, Karnataka

Scaly-breasted MuniaCategory: MuniasSize: 10cmDescription: Sexes alike. Chocolate brown above; olivish-yellow, pointed t...
03/01/2020

Scaly-breasted Munia

Category: Munias

Size: 10cm

Description:
Sexes alike. Chocolate brown above; olivish-yellow, pointed tail; white bars on rump; chestnut sides of face, chin and throat; white below, thickly speckled with very dark brown on breast, flanks and part of belly (speckles may be absent during winter and much of summer). Sociable, moving in flocks of six to several dozen birds, often with other munias and weaver birds; feeds on ground and low bushes, but rests in trees.

Habitat:
open scrub, cultivation, especially where interspersed with trees; also gardens.

Food:
seeds, small berries; also insects

The white-cheeked barbet is 16.5–18.5 cm (6.5–7.3 in) in length. It has a brownish head streaked with white, sometimes g...
28/11/2019

The white-cheeked barbet is 16.5–18.5 cm (6.5–7.3 in) in length. It has a brownish head streaked with white, sometimes giving it a capped appearance. The bill is pale pinkish. Size varies from the larger northern birds to the southern ones.

Like many other barbets of Asia, white-cheeked barbets are green, sit still, and perch upright making them difficult to spot. During the breeding season which begins at the start of summer their calls become loud and constant especially in the mornings. The call, a monotonous Kot-roo ... Kotroo... starting with an explosive trrr is not easily differentiated from that of the brown-headed barbet. During hot afternoons, they may also utter a single note wut not unlike the call of collared scops owl or coppersmith barbet. Other harsh calls are produced during aggressive encounters.

The Indian ornithologist Salim Ali noted that some birds may call in the night during the breeding season, but this has been questioned by other observers such as K K Neelakantan who noted that these birds appear to be strictly diurnal.

The main range is along the Western Ghats south from the Surat Dangs and along the associated hills of southern India into parts of the southern Eastern Ghats mainly in the Shevaroy and Chitteri Hills. In some areas such as in the city of Bangalore, it has been suggested that this species may have displaced the brown-headed barbet which was once said to occur there.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
F-stop 5.6
Exposure time 1/500
ISO 640
Focal length 300mm

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