tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54242007646178518142024-03-21T07:56:36.832-07:00Friendly Neighbourhood BirdersSumita B. Chaudhry and Rajeev Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088664765561165425noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424200764617851814.post-77495772738965931442018-03-11T06:53:00.002-07:002018-04-06T02:20:54.938-07:0035. BIRDS OF KERALA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>BIRDS SEEN IN VYTHRI, WAYANAD</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We visited Kerala at the end of February and the beginning of March this year. Our stay at "The Village" resort, in Vythri, was spent bird-watching, full-time. It started when we saw this beautiful Blue-capped Rock Thrush sitting on a branch outside my window as soon as we entered our room. Taking pictures through the cloudy window panes was a bit of a challenge though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Racket-tailed Drongo definitely ruled! Their teasing whistle could be heard all over the resort, while they boldly flitted from tree to tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We could take pictures of at least three varieties of Bulbuls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> In the Himalayan region and NE and E india it has a black crest hence the name. In SW India it has a ruby red throat and crest is missing.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We spent a lot of time trying to take a picture of this dark beauty in the dusk - not easy! The good thing was it was not very shy. On our visit to Coorg the Malabar Whistling Thrush had been extremely reticent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We saw the Hill Mynas, rather big birds, land on this tree across the stream, while we were having breakfast. The picture through the wire-mesh of the window has a lot of noise but the birds unmistakable yellow wattles made it easy to ID. It seemed to be drinking nectar from the "Palash" or as called in Kerala "Plasu" flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rajeev saw the Bar-winged Flycatcher Shrike while sitting and reading a newspaper! while the rest of us were chasing birds all over the place. We learnt, here one just has to sit in a quiet place and the birds will come to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The White-browed Wagtail, or Waggy, as Anu called it, was forever hovering around the swimming pool.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were many Magpie robins but this one was annoyed as Anu aimed her camera. It fluffed up its feathers and glared at her. Some feathers got really ruffled!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">"Maggie" the MAGPIE ROBIN took umbrage at being photographed</span></td></tr>
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<b>BIRDS SIGHTED IN KOTTAYAM AND ASHTMUDI</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">BROWN-HEADED BARBET<br />This bird could be heard across all the three states we visited in this season and we grew rather fond of its clownish face and called it "Barbie".</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">LOTEN''S SUNBIRD (F)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">HAWK CUCKOO</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">commo</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">nly known as the brain-fever bird because of its typical repetitive call.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">sighted at Bangalore Ashram, at the start of the trip, proved to be a good omen for a fabulous trip.</span></td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Photos contributed by everyone on the trip - Anuradha, Ajit, Rajeev and Sumita and Amma helped spot the birds</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2018/03/road-trip-to-kerala.html"> check out our full trip to Kerala</a></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b>The above is an image of a Post Card issued by the Department of Posts, India as part of a four post card issue titled the "Endangered Bird Species Series"</b></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Fact
File:</span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The Lesser Florican (<i>Sypheotides indicus</i>) is also known as
the â<i>Likh</i>â or â<i>Leekh</i>â (derived from the Sanskrit name â<i>Khilkhilla</i>â) or â<i>Chotta Dahar</i>â
(in Bengal), â<i>Chhota Charat</i>â or â<i>Charaz</i>â, â<i>Barsati</i>â or â<i>Kala Charaz</i>â
or â<i>Tugdar</i>â (in Hindi), or â<i>Kharmoreâ â meaning the âgrass peacockâ</i>
â (in Gujarat), â<i>Chini Morâ</i>, â<i>Varatâ</i> and â<i>Anjalikarnaâ</i> (in Maharashtra), â<i>Naila nimli</i>â (in Andhra Pradesh and
Telengana), â<i>Warragu kozhi</i>â (in Tamil
Nadu) etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">It is a large bird of the
Bustard Family (<i>Otididae</i>) and the
only member of the genus <i>Sypheptides</i>.
Threatened by both hunting and habitat degradation, it is a similar species as
the Bengal Florican (<i>Houbarobsis bengale</i>n<i>sis</i>) which is larger and does not have a
white throat, collar and elongated plumes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">These two species of
smaller bustards are called âFloricansâ (which seems to be a term of Dutch
origin, though itâs origin is rather undecided as yet).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Identification
of the Lesser Florican</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The Lesser Florican bird
is a small slender bustard with longish bill and legs â and the bird size is of
about 46-51 cms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Males</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:
have spatulate â tipped head plumes, black head, neck and underparts. There is
a white collar across the upper mantle, white wing â coverts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The <b><u>breeding Males</u></b> have spatulate-tipped head plumes (3 four
inch long, ribbon like feathers which arise from behind the ear-coverts on each
side of the head and extend backwards, curving up and ending in a spatulate
tip), black head, neck and underparts, white throat and white collar across
upper mantle, white wing coverts which show as a patch on closed wing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Females
and Immatures/Juveniles</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">: are sandy or cinnamon-buff.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">There are heavily marked
wing-coverts and rufous, rather than buff background coloration. The Females in
non-breeding plumage are buff with black streaks and having darker markings on
the head and neck. The back is mottled and barred in black. The neck and upper
breast are buff with streaks decreasing towards the belly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Immatures have a distinct
âUâ shaped mark on the neck near the throat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Non-breeding
Males</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">, are similar to Females but have wing coverts and may
have some white in the wings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Call</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:
Frog-like croaks during display and short whistles when flushed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Nesting</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The Lesser Florican breeds
chiefly in North-Western India. Breeding areas are mainly concentrated in Gujarat, South â East Rajasthan, North-West
Maharashtra and Western Madhya Pradesh, some areas in Southern Nepal, parts of
Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The nesting season is
between April to October. During Breeding season displaying males are rather
conspicuous makes leaping breeding displays. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Nesting is in secluded
grassland, fallow field or on the ground in grass clumps. The mating Female
lays 3 to 4 eggs among a few pebbles, which are olive-brown, mottled and
streaked with brown. Since, the eggs are laid on the ground in grass or a crop
field, it makes the nest vulnerable to ground based predators like dogs, apart
from predating crows and large birds.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Each <b><u>Breeding Male holds a territory</u></b> of about 1-2 hectares. <b><u>Breeding Females put up a defensive
display</u></b> at nest which has them spreading their wings, tail and neck
feathers and a whisting call which attracts the Males. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Females
take sole part in incubation (21 days) and raising of chicks</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Distribution
& declining numbers</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Endemic to the Indian
sub-continent, the Lesser Florican is found in tall dry grasslands, in lowland
areas (below 250 metres), with scattered bushes and scrub, mainly in North-Western
and Central India during summers but is more widely distributed across India in
the winters.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">It is found in the greater
part of the Indian plains, excluding the North Eastern States.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> It is known to migrate to the South and South
East India for the winters and has been found in Nepal during summers (It is a
rare visitor to the â<i>Terai</i>â area of
Nepal), and has also, been found even on the Makran coast of Balochistan
province in Pakistan.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">It
is a Resident and locally migratory bird, primarily during the rainy season</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Feeding
habits:</span></u></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">It is found in tall grass
areas and standing fields of cotton, millets etc. It feeds on worms,
centipedes, lizards, frogs, beetles and insects as well as green shoots, grain,
seeds, herbs, berries, etc.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> Mostly it feeds in the early morning or in the
evening, except for newly migrated birds which feed throughout the day, to
recoup the energy spent in flying during migration. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
Lesser Florican: An Endangered Species</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The species is highly
endangered and has been extirpated (meaning âdestroyed completelyâ) in some
parts of its range, such as in Pakistan and Nepal due to hunting and from
disturbance and insufficient protection resulting from overgrazing and
grassland degradation.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Its
population has declined since 1870s.</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">From <u>1982â1989</u>, its
population of about 4400 birds had declined alarmingly to about 1600-1700 birds
i.e. a decline of about 60 to 64 %.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">By
<u>1994</u>, conservation strategies had been intensified and resulted in increasing
the number of birds to about 2200 individuals consisting of some 1500 mature
birds.</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">It is under a severe
threat through hunting, particularly of males during the breeding season, when
the displaying males are highly vulnerable and easily spotted. The beautiful Maleâs
nuptial displays consists of constantly jumping or springing up above the long
grass and crops sometimes for up to 500 - 600 times in a day. Meant to make his
presence known to rival males, he also makes a loud rattling sound with his wings
which attracts poachers who hunt him down for sport and food. <i><u>The hunting of these displaying birds has
led to sharp declines in the populations in the past.</u></i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> Habitat degradation/loss and reduction of
areas of grassland, due to pressure on lowland grasslands because of conversion
to agriculture and overgrazing has also led to declining numbers of these
birds. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The Lesser Florican
population numbers had declined alarmingly to less than 1500 mature individuals
and there has been a decreasing trend. Its small numbers and rapidly declining
population have brought about focussed efforts to reverse the declining trend.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">An invasive plant â<i>Mikania micrantha</i>â has also impacted the
Lesser Floricanâs habitat.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Some
Conservation measures taken</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">In <u>1983</u>, the Indian
State of Rajasthan had <b><u>put a
prohibition/ban on hunting this species</u></b> while the Indian State of
Madhya Pradesh had <b><u>employed locals in
a scheme to prevent hu</u></b><u>nting</u> in Madhya Pradesh. In Nepal, the
species is now protected at the National level.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">In <u>1994</u>, a <b><u>conservation strategy</u></b> was
published which proposed management recommendations for fodder â producing
grasslands and increased protection for natural grasslands.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">A couple of years later, <b><u>multiple conservation sites</u></b> were
identified for concerted conservation efforts.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Ringing
of hundreds of birds</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> have helped establish their movements
and habitat preferences â which is primarily grasslands and some cotton and
lentil fields as well as their seasonal migration preferences.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">In Madhya Pradesh, <b><u>Lesser Florican Sanctuaries</u></b> at
Sailana and Sardarpur are seized with conserving and increasing the Bird
population.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">In Maharashtra, the Forest
Department has tied up with several NGOs, for <b><u>increasing awareness among school children and local communities</u></b>
for conserving the Lesser Florican population along with other endangered bird
species.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Managing
Florican habitats</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> such as grasslands, interspersed with
croplands and pastures rotationally has provided optimal results for increasing
the bird population.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Conservation efforts are
undertaken Pan-India under âProject Bustardâ which have yielded positive
results.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">IUCN
Endangered Birds list</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Sixteen bird species in
India still remain on the critically endangered list of the International Union
of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Migratory
Wetland Species</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Baerâs
Pochard (<i>Aythya baeri</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Siberian
Crane (<i>Leucogeranus leucogeranus</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Spoon
â billed Sandpiper (<i>Eurynorhynchus
pygmeus</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Non-Migratory
Wetland Species</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">White-bellied
Heron (<i>Ardea insignis</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Grassland
Species</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Bengal
Florican (<i>Houaropsis bengalensis</i>) </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Great
Indian Bustard (<i>Ardeotis nigriceps</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Jerdonâs
Courser (<i>Rhinoptilus bitorquatus</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Sociable
Lapwing (<i>Vanellus gregarious</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Bugun
Liocichla (<i>Liocichla bugunorum</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Forest
Species</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Forest
Owlet (<i>Heteroglaux blewitti</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Scavenger
Species</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Vulture
(<i>Gyps indicus</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Red-Headed
Vulture (<i>Sarcogyps calvus</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Slender-
billed Vulture (<i>Gyps tenuirostris</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">White-backed
Vulture (<i>Gyps bengalensis</i>)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Practically extinct:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Himalayan
Quail (<i>Ophrysia superciliosa</i>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Pink Headed Duck (</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Rhodonessa
caryophyllacea)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">In addition, the River
Lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii) and the River Tern (Sterna aurantia) which
were listed as Species of âLeast Concernâ
are now registered as ânear threatenedâ, while the Long Tailed Duck has now
moved from the List of âLeast Concernâ to âVulnerableâ.</span></u></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The River Lapwing and the
River Tern lay their eggs on the banks of rivers and on small islands that form
on the river beds during summer. However, human activity such as bringing dogs
and cattle to the riverside has resulted in the eggs getting trampled upon</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">.</span></span></div>
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Sumita B. Chaudhry and Rajeev Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088664765561165425noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424200764617851814.post-85310240469843082532015-11-26T03:36:00.001-08:002015-12-03T02:42:06.307-08:0033. Birds of Ganeshgudi and Dandeli<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
November 2015<br />
A trip to Ganeshgudi is perhaps a dream come true of every bird-watcher. I don't think I have seen so many varieties of birds with so little effort ever before. I am uploading the pictures of the birds we saw. Some common birds like the Green Beeeater, White Throated Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Red Vented Bulbul, White Cheeked Bulbul, Magpie Robin, Shikra etc I have omitted. A few I could not get a clear shot of like the Pompadour Pigeons.<br />
For full details of the trip please check <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2015/11/a-road-trip-dandeli-and-ganeshgudi.html">http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2015/11/a-road-trip-dandeli-and-ganeshgudi.html</a><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ba5NCkGKp-mMCMVHdADmqaWvaneCzHzZo4I3H6qEsoE5sAVzeqqtLvx3jPkCPfJ3pnpngaHsklHmLdmoDFaSWEsEUr9Oi8-AlVXXIvE7vXO0YIP2es_d1Cjd3Z9nCbbanGi-Z5DXFDoP/s1600/DSC_0400+%25282%2529White+bellied+blue+flycatcher+%2528m%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ba5NCkGKp-mMCMVHdADmqaWvaneCzHzZo4I3H6qEsoE5sAVzeqqtLvx3jPkCPfJ3pnpngaHsklHmLdmoDFaSWEsEUr9Oi8-AlVXXIvE7vXO0YIP2es_d1Cjd3Z9nCbbanGi-Z5DXFDoP/s400/DSC_0400+%25282%2529White+bellied+blue+flycatcher+%2528m%2529.JPG" width="336" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">White-bellied Blue Flycatcher</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcpqqDEYIegRnoxbklop5sK-6Kn6JP6DBDldo759QPBd1mffyAx06FUW2R5vXhtR7rbqQVtrdm1f7vVp1etpa3IIyhLjvGXQKiWtPk3LerLJEDy7bF9-gPuwdzGqV0fHJVrd-X2l9mBKRy/s1600/DSC_0063+%25283%2529white+bellied+blue+flycatcher+%2528f%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcpqqDEYIegRnoxbklop5sK-6Kn6JP6DBDldo759QPBd1mffyAx06FUW2R5vXhtR7rbqQVtrdm1f7vVp1etpa3IIyhLjvGXQKiWtPk3LerLJEDy7bF9-gPuwdzGqV0fHJVrd-X2l9mBKRy/s400/DSC_0063+%25283%2529white+bellied+blue+flycatcher+%2528f%2529.JPG" width="367" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: small;">White-bellied Blue Flycatcher (F)</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Yellow-browed Bulbuls</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Tickels Blue Flycatcher</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlyQFEWfG5sxl3iUQQ3c22pln0TdqB7XvtpI1xKwCsrQc2kmsJksUl3xeWZHJfc81_v_ZJCOF5Y3b0kO2aaI2cs8LS-yNGgwZ6dvErL2P3mpZV1CUnAmirVauE_YkI1hzpPnUAQKogJw2k/s1600/DSC_0168+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlyQFEWfG5sxl3iUQQ3c22pln0TdqB7XvtpI1xKwCsrQc2kmsJksUl3xeWZHJfc81_v_ZJCOF5Y3b0kO2aaI2cs8LS-yNGgwZ6dvErL2P3mpZV1CUnAmirVauE_YkI1hzpPnUAQKogJw2k/s400/DSC_0168+%25282%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Golden Oriole</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Black-headed Oriole</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Blue-capped Rock Thrush</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Orange-headed Rock Thrush </span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghps94gtqpDOHlidk2-JBJoFejJFzgi6tzXsU1ZhkibxusPUwgA9NSiNMm6PdnVdD7-yQ_SNs-n4aw_YP0R76xfJlx8T2-EDK4D8sUnXY_oRpejsNLRSSTT5Qs0gVuBCBr3085Gq0IJWo8/s1600/DSC_0055+%25282%2529indian+blue+robin.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghps94gtqpDOHlidk2-JBJoFejJFzgi6tzXsU1ZhkibxusPUwgA9NSiNMm6PdnVdD7-yQ_SNs-n4aw_YP0R76xfJlx8T2-EDK4D8sUnXY_oRpejsNLRSSTT5Qs0gVuBCBr3085Gq0IJWo8/s640/DSC_0055+%25282%2529indian+blue+robin.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Brown-cheeked Fulvetta Indian Blue Robin </span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Blackbird</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Velvet Fronted Nuthatch</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Small Minivet</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Chestnut Tailed Starling</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAkEf9KgGGanPSAeuEHH0qv-sSJhwFTMTXuge-VX4khrinSpboNcEgPdkdXVfi3AxJbujZOwWznUWYnTLps93BHEIb0AFuohGXLsuzuzE5mh0u08PUUX16faLId9GJQ1FqpDFke2GRyogJ/s1600/DSC_0858+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAkEf9KgGGanPSAeuEHH0qv-sSJhwFTMTXuge-VX4khrinSpboNcEgPdkdXVfi3AxJbujZOwWznUWYnTLps93BHEIb0AFuohGXLsuzuzE5mh0u08PUUX16faLId9GJQ1FqpDFke2GRyogJ/s400/DSC_0858+%25282%2529.JPG" width="328" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Paradise Flycatcher (F)</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Golden-Fronted Leafbird</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Golden-Fronted Leafbird (F)</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Golden-Fronted Leafbird</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Rufous Woodpecker</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Greater Flameback Woodpecker 33cm</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Black Rumped Flameback 26-29 cm</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Brown Headed Barbet</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">White Rumped Shama</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Black Naped Monarch Flycatcher</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Black Naped Monarch Flycatcher with female</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Malabar Trogon (front) the much sought after bird in these parts.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Malabar Trogon (back)</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Emerald Dove</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Plum Headed Parakeet</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Little Spider Hunter</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Malabar Pied Hornbill</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Malabar Grey Hornbill. Our guide recounted the breeding habits of the specie. The female sheds all her feathers and seals herself inside the tree-hole nest. The male feeds the female and later the chicks. However if the male dies for some reason, the whole family will perish of starvation.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Greater Racket Tailed Drongo</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This
beautiful greenish-blue (hence the name- copper
sulphate blue) are widespread residents but breed in the
Himalayas. An
interesting fact I learnt about the bird is that its colour is not due
to
pigments but due to the way the feathers reflect light. </span><br />
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For a full account of the trip check out<a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2015/11/a-road-trip-dandeli-and-ganeshgudi.html">http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2015/11/a-road-trip-dandeli-and-ganeshgudi.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When we were in Almora, a whole lot of beetles descended on our daisy patch. I had a field day taking pictures. The butterflies are, of course everywhere and chasing them for a picture is such fun. Here are some of them. I may name them at a later date. Naming the birds has sapped all my energy, its easier taking their pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This amazing little creature looks and moves like a hummingbird and that helped me search for it on the net. Spent hours seeing it hover like a hummingbird and keep poking its proboscis into a flower and roll it like a elephant's trunk. We never saw it sit anywhere.</span></div>
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<a href="http://birdbuddies.blogspot.in/2015/05/31-birds-and-bugs-of-kausani-and-almora.html">See the birds here.</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This May I took a trip to Kausani and Almora essentially to
mountain-gaze and bird-watch. Most delightful activities if you have
such a proclivity, ofcourse. The essential tool of the trade being a
decent camera, because even if you have a 6 by 6 vision you still need
to see the tiny birds through a lens to truly appreciate the amazing
variety, colour and intricacy of patterns that nature has created. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These are the more uncommon birds which I managed to capture on my camera. </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span>VERDITER FLYCATCHER </div>
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<i>eumyias thalassina 16 cm</i></div>
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ORIENTAL TURTLE DOVES</div>
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<i>streptopelia orientalis 33 cm</i></div>
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GREEN BACKED TIT</div>
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<i>Parus monticolus 12.5 cm</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Megalaima virens 33
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We found this great big bird with its loud, monotonous call,
present wherever we went, all over the hills. It gives the appearance of a
dowdy, ungainly bird but once I saw it in my camera frame, we were chasing it
with a vengeance. Unbelievable colours! Definitely the high point of our trip was seeing this bird up close.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still trying to correctly ID this Babbler</span></b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">House Martin chicks nesting in Tara's shop</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A new nest at our Kausani Hotel</span></b></td></tr>
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<a href="http://birdbuddies.blogspot.in/2015/05/32-birds-and-bugs-of-almora-and-kausani.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;">Please see the interesting bugs and butterflies here</span>.</span></a><br />
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Sumita B. Chaudhry and Rajeev Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088664765561165425noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424200764617851814.post-8675970096125266372014-04-10T16:33:00.002-07:002015-03-10T19:18:45.256-07:0030. Birds of Ghana<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The number of unusual birds we saw in Ghana was quite amazing. This Hornbill is quite prolific and can be seen everywhere, flying around with its peculiar criss-cross movement calling out loudly. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">African Hornbill</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This funny looking duck is domesticated</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">swallow</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Malachite Kingfisher babies</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Senegal Coucal</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Laughing Dove</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Northern Grey headed Sparrow</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The ubiquitous Pied Crow</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The very first bird we saw in Mole National Park was this beautiful and amazing large bird. It is called the Abyssinian
Ground Hornbill. Our guide told us that many ornithologists come to the park to
see just this bird. Lucky, lucky!! </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is one of the two most massive species
of Hornbill, the other being, the Southern Ground Hornbill. The male has a red
throat pouch and the female has a blue throat pouch. Modified feathers form
long eye-lashes, which protect their eyes from dust. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Their diet consists of
small vertebrates and invertebrates including tortoises, lizards, spiders,
beetles and caterpillars. It can also eat carrion and fruits, seeds and
groundnuts.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Kwame our boatman up the Mole River, called this one Bataleur eagle but I have my doubts</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">African Fish Eagle</span></b></span></td></tr>
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</span><span lang="EN-IN">African Fish Eagle
resembles an American Bald eagle and is the National Bird of Zimbabwe and
Zambia. The male of this species has a wing span of about 2 metres (6 feet),
while females can stretch upto 2.4 metres (8 feet), the female being larger
than the male.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN"> T</span><span lang="EN-IN">he Violet Turaco also known as
Violaceous Plantain Eater. They are 45 cm long, including a long tail, the
plumage is glossy violet except for the yellow forehead and chestnut crown. The
bill is thick and red. The violet Turacoâs crimson primary flight feathers
contrast with the violet plumage. It feeds on fruit, especially figs and some
seeds.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN"> The </span><span lang="EN-IN">Western Grey Plantain Eater is a large member of the Turaco family. It is a group of large arboreal,
near â passerine birds restricted to Africa. A Resident bird, it breeds in open
Woodland Habitats in tropical West Africa, laying two or three eggs in a tree
platform nest.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">They are 50 cm long. Including a long tail. The plumage is
mainly grey spotted with brown. The head, erect crest, neck and breast are
brown streaked with silver. The under-parts are whitish heavily streaked with
brown. It has a thick bright yellow bill and shows a white wing bar in flight.
The sexes are identical, but juveniles have a black woolly head without silver
streaking. It feeds on fruit especially figs, seeds and other vegetables.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Red Throated Bee Eater nests in the ground.</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A whole lot of bee eaters were nesting in these holes and flew out when I inadvertently disturbed them.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Black Billed Wood Dove</span></span></b></td></tr>
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wide spread resident pigeon. They are abundant near deserts, scrubs and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">African Yellow wattled Lapwing</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Malachite Kingfisher</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yellow Billed Oxpecker sitting on a wild boar</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN">Grey Heron</span></span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN">Whistling Ducks</span></span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Grey Kestrel</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Red billed firefinch (female)</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>BIRDS OF THE CAPE COAST</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vieillot's Black Weaver</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The nests</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> Roller</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Pied Kingfishers</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Hooded Vulture with a Pied Crow</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> African Pied</b></span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Wagtails</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> African Jacana</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Egrets roosting</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> African Pied Wagtail</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Yellow Billed Kite</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Yellow Billed Kite in flight</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Northern Grey headed Sparrow</b></span></span><br />
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<u><i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Links:</span></span></b></i></u> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><i><b>1) </b></i><i><b> <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-visit-to-ghana_8.html">Adinkra Symbols of Ghana, West Africa</a></b></i></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2) <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-visit-to-ghana-lake.html">Bosumchwe Crater Lake</a></span></b></i></u></span><br />
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<u><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">3)<a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-visit-to-ghana-trip.html">Trip to El Mina Slave Castle/Fort</a></span></span></b></i></u><br />
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<u><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">4)</span></span></b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://exclusivecoins.blogspot.in/2013/01/87-coinage-and-currency-of-ghana-cedi.html?utm_source=BP_recent">History of Coins & Currency of Ghana</a></span></span></b></i></u><br />
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<u><i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5) <a href="http://birdbuddies.blogspot.in/2013/03/birds-of-ghana-mole-national-park.html">Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana</a></span></span></b></i></u><br />
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<u><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">6) <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-visit-to-ghana_16.html">Larabanga Mosque & the Mystic Stone</a></span></span></b></i></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><i><b>7) <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-funerals-in-ghana.html">Funerals are a celebration in Ghana</a></b></i></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Who would have thought that one could see big water-birds
like pelicans, open bills, ibises, purple moorhens and, I am told, even an
occasional flamingo in all the small marshes surrounding Chennai? Anu and Ajit,
our friends residing here are indignant that the Chennai Municipal Corporation
is dumping garbage in these marshes and systematically killing the habitat of
the birds that frequent these marshes; the purpose being, of course, to reclaim
this land for building residential colonies. Ever since we have come we have
explored the marshes around Sholliganallur during our walks and have never
returned disappointed. The tiny marsh visible below Anuâs terrace hosts some purple
moor hens, white breasted water hens, coots and herons, not to talk about
the amount of bush bird activity it generates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We made a long trip to a Lake called Siruthavur near Mahabalipuram but it was disappointing. However it was more than compensated for by what we saw on our way back in the waters across from the Taj Vivanta's Fisherman's Cove. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Birds in the Shiruvathur Lake</span></b></div>
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and stood under the bridge for a long time to feast our eyes on the
delightful spectacle of a profusion of pelicans, painted storks, black
winged stilts and egrets.</span></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dead Puffer fishes on the beach in front of Taj Vivanta generated a lot of excitement. Amma recalled how she and other kids played ball with them in her childhood in Kerala!! - flinging the fishes that were brought in by the sea, at each other!</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had seen most of the expected birds save perhaps the flamingos. So off we went to Pulicat Lake early yesterday for a look at the long-legged beauties. Puja, Anu's vivacious cook, prepared and packed a pile of Aloo-parathas for us at 6 am in the morning and we drove out some 95 kms to the north of Chennai towards Sriharikota, which incidentally is in Andhra Pradesh. As we neared Pulicat, Ajit's smattering of Tamil, suddenly was not the flavour of the hour. We, unsuccessfully, tried to recall what little Telugu we had picked up</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> when we were posted in Hyderabad, while asking for directions to the lake.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As we neared the lake, or what little remained of it, I saw a whole lot of ducks in the stream of water collected alongside the road. We were very excited, shushed each other and wondered in whispers what birds they were till we saw a small boy herding them like cattle and making them stay put in one area. The boy spoke Telugu so we never got to the bottom of the mystery but guessed that they were being reared for the table : (</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> A kilometer ahead we had the most amazing view of a large number and variety of birds in a relatively small body of water and of course, flamingos! Pulicat Lake normally stretches for miles but this year there is just a small patch of water remaining and the rest looks like a desert stretch with occasional patches looking like white salt pans. Predictably we saw some boys playing cricket in the dried up area under the hot, mid morning sun. We drove onwards from the lake to Sriharikota to see the Space Centre but unfortunately we could not go inside as it remains closed on weekends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We drove back to the crossroad and took the fork to the Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary (Pelican Sanctuary) but before that we took a break at Environmental Education Centre, Pulicat Bird Sanctuary, and polished off Puja's 'parathas'</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That was a day well spent! Next we will be spending the night with Ridley's turtles...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Spending a fortnight with our friends Ajit and Anu in Chennai â yes, leaving
Pune for Chennai in March not a good idea, but Ajit lured us with a
bird-watching trip to Masinagudi (Karnataka)â 29 kms beyond Ooty. So dutifully
we flew in on the 5<sup>th</sup> of March and took a train to Coimbatore on the
6<sup>th</sup> then early the next morning picked up a pre-hired car and drove
off for Masinagudi for a most wonderful trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The drive up to Ooty is quite delightful if you rule out
some of the ill mannered drivers of SUVs who do not follow the rules of driving
on a hill road. (Ajit kept shouting ânaiâ meaning âdogâ in Tamil, while the car
windows were rolled up, so unless they could lip read they remained un-chastised).
While looking for a coffee shop we chanced upon this chocolate shop in Ooty (which
also serves tea and coffee) and ended up tasting and buying every variety of
chocolate they had. Fortified with all that chocolate we were equipped to take
on the 36 hairpin bends down to Masinagudi.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">G<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>etting checked for 'cash' in view of the forthcoming elections</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Whew! the 30th gone! 6 more to go</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Saw only this beautiful rock lizard</b></span></td></tr>
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<b>WILD HAVEN </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Wild Haven</b>! <b>the forest lodge where we stayed</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The place we stayed in was called âWild Havenâ and it
certainly lived upto its name because though encircled by an electrified fence (to
keep out rogue elephants if required), the animals had the run of the
place. The spotted deer and wild boars came in hordes and some slept outside
our room at night; once I saw a herd of wild asses too. Notwithstanding the
wilderness outside, the rooms are clean and airy, the food very good and the
staff friendly. We were quite captivated by the place. Within the first hour
itself while we waited for other friends to arrive from other parts of the
country, I had sighted a number of birds importantly an iora which I had wanted
to see for a long time.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> BANDIPUR TIGER RESERVE</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The same evening we drove down to the Bandipur Reserve
forest to enquire about the safari the next day. The jeeps were available only
to the Government lodge/s so we had to be satisfied with a bus safari â a noisy
contraption which kept the animals at bay. We managed to see some sambhars and
a striped neck mongoose.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">BIRD WATCHING AND OTHER PASTIMES AT THE 'WILD HAVEN' </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> We spent the evening and the next morning looking for birds in the Wild Haven campus and had some great sightings. Ravi our new found ornithologist friend saw a Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch and made me really jealous. Anyway I had my own prized sighting of the Iora. We also saw a flame backed Woodpecker but it did not oblige us with a picture.</span></div>
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<b> THE WAY BACK</b><br />
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The way back was even more picturesque because we took the wrong turn at Doddabetta. In Ooty we found a good eating joint called Amma's Kitchen (NOT of Jayalalitha fame). The owner was sweet enough to get us a cake from a shop in the city as it was Ajit's mother's birthday.<br />
Some of the sights on the way back...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the previous post I have put up pictures of all the birds
we saw inside the Reserve Forest, but on the third day we decided to look
around in the vicinity of the Resort, alongside a huge lake, and discovered a
fair number of birds specially grassland birds which<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we donât get to see normally. These birds are
small and blend in so well with their surroundings that it is really difficult
to capture them on camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am pleased
with the few I did manage to get but rue the ones I could just barely see
flitting around.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Asian Brown Flycatcher seen just inside the Park</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am putting up this post before the thrill of visiting the
Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve ebbs. Situated in the Chandrapur district of
Maharashtra, it is the oldest and largest National Park of Maharashtra,
stretching over a good 625 km. Like most things in India it is dedicated to a
God called Tadoba worshipped by the adivasis (tribals) of the area and the
river Andhari which meanders through the park. Tadoba reserve forest, primarily
a Dry Deciduous forest, covers the Chimur Hills and is fed by the Tadoba and
Kolsa Lakes apart from the Andhari river. The forest is home to a number of
mammals including the Indian leopard, sloth bear, gaur, nilgai, dhole, striped
hyena, small Indian Civet, jungle cats, sambar, spotted deer, barking deer,
chital and chausingha apart from the stars of the show â the Bengal Tigers which
are currently 65 in number.</span></span></div>
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species and 74 species of butterflies and many other insect species. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We went by train to Nagpur and then drove the 150 odd kms to
Tadoba. All bookings (including the safari)were done beforehand to avoid disappointment
as there is a great tourist rush especially on weekends. We stayed at a resort
called The Royal Tiger Resort, which proved to be a good choice. I was quite pleased
by their thoughtfulness of providing warm towels as soon as we returned from
the safaris and laying out the evening tea on the well maintained lawns. However
they did not provide accommodation to our driver who had to sleep in his
vehicle. A number of butterflies hovered on the flowers blooming around the lawn.</span></span></div>
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to explore around and also go for a ride in the night in the in what is called
the buffer zone. We were rewarded with the sighting of a Black Shouldered Kite
hovering in the air. Managed to take a video of it too. In the night ride two
sparkling lights led us to a Indian civet cat but none of us got a clear shot
of it. Also saw a ruddy mongoose slinking away.</span></span></div>
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safari in the forest which is the Core zone and access is closely monitored by the Forest Department. There is a queue at the gate before the gates open at 6.30 am as people
want to make the most of the 4 hours of safari. Our guide Vasant Sonule was a
knowledgeable and jovial fellow and showed us birds we would have normally
missed, as we are not allowed to get off the jeep during the safari.</span></span></div>
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tiger. One group reported seeing a female with 4 cubs which made us determined
to see one in the evening safari (foolishly so, as we were to find out). When in
a forest one should pay attention to all that one comes across instead of just
chasing an animal which has a mind of its own. So the evening trip was a little
disappointing till I saw a Barred Jungle Owlet and somehow managed to see the perfectly
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Sumita B. Chaudhry and Rajeev Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088664765561165425noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424200764617851814.post-1543697396641215382014-01-06T06:06:00.000-08:002015-03-10T19:16:53.216-07:0025. Trip to Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur Part II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The second day we were much wiser. We took rikshaws! This time we knew exactly where to find which bird. Not just the water birds, the bush birds too frequent the same trees, being creatures of habit. Therefore it is so important that we leave their habitat untouched. We quickly went through the park but couldn't resist taking some more pictures. </span><br />
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Check out the above video of a painted stork feeding her chicks. I was fascinated by the amount of fish she carried in her gullet. Mother Nature is unparalled!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We went to the park canteen as Raka was very keen to feed the very tame squirrels and jungle babblers there. We were rewarded by finding a young pet nilgai grazing there, who had been handraised by a local resident when its mother died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the trip that we had done in 3 hours the previous day was over in one we were mulling over whether to go and see some elusive pythons or go for a boat ride. We chose the boat ride because to see the pythons we had to trek a lot. It was the right choice. The boatman took us to this magical place which took our breath away. The pictures below do very little justice to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Feeling besides ourselves with joy after this wonderful experience, we thanked and tipped Vijay kumar our boatman and happily trekked back the remaining kilometer and a half to the gate. The trek back was not without its surprises. Last time while driving back we had suddenly seen a jackal cross the road. We hoped we will see it again, but did not. But we did see a shikra, a grey francolin some drongos and the lovely yellow footed green pigeons right near the entrance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This December I made a trip to Lucknow with the sole
intention of accompanying my sister and Raka to Bharatpur and see the Keoladeo
Ghana National Park, (named after the Keoladeo (Shiva) temple within its
boundaries), once again. I had visited this most wonderful bird sanctuary long
back in the year 1997 or 98, post monsoons, and suspect that is when I got
infected by the âBirdwatching virusâ. I had not seen anything like that before
â there were bird hatchlings everywhere â on the trees, on the bushes, on the
ground and even in the water. I could have easily touched some of them! And the
sound was unbelievable! We had a Sikh Rickshawpuller cum guide who was a most
colourful character and a great mimic of bird calls. I doubt though that the
birds heard anything above the din and cacophony of the hatchlings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now after almost 15 years the park looks, by and large, the
same though it faced some rough times in between, but the number of birds were
nowhere close to what I had seen the last time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">During 1726-1763 Maharaja
Surajmal of Bharatpur built the Ajan Dam at the confluence of two rivers, the
Gambhir and Banganga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later during
1850-1899 a system of dykes and canals was developed and the place modified
into a duck shoot reserve. It was the hunting ground for the maharajas of Bharatpur
and the British viceroys they hosted. In one shoot alone in 1938, over 4273
birds were killed by Lord Linlithgow, the then Governor General of India! It
was made a National Park on 10<sup>th</sup> March 1982 and an Heritage site in
1985. The Maharaja retained shooting rights till 1972 even though the last
major shoot was in 1964.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">20<sup>th</sup> Dec 2014 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We landed in Bharatpur on this bright winter morning aboard
the Marudhar Express and checked into the Surya Vilaas Hotel where Rakaâs
Medical College Batchmates were having their âBatchmeetâ. We did not spend too
much time admiring the beautiful premises of this hotel built in the Rajasthani
style, instead, right after breakfast drove down to the park (3-4kms) along
with Rakaâs friends. On entering the gate itself the first bird we saw was the
Indian Roller called âNeelkanthâ in Hindi and took it as a good omen for the
day ahead.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yellow footed green pigeon. 'Hariyal', the state bird of Maharashtra</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Awesome twosome</span></b>!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> In our excitement we proceeded on foot. We took the services of a guide. Babulal turned out to be rather knowledgeable and I learnt that he had spent 15 years as a guide and was practically born there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had some great sightings at the very onset of the trek when I walked ahead of my chattering group. Following a bright and handsome Greater Coucal I got distracted by these little beauties.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A lovely Bluethroat (non-breeding male), saw the female later</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Babulal caught up with me and showed a couple of Collared Scop's Owls cosying up in a tree nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Midway down the park most of our group were tired after walking almost two kilometers. Our guide tried to perk us by saying the best was just approaching - something we would have only seen on the Discovery Channel. True to his word we soon saw the nesting painted storks and soon everybody was merrily clicking away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Babulal kept our struggling group walking, telling us we will find a canteen at the end of the road. We rewarded ourselves with some tea and biscuits at lunch time after the long trek. However the trek back still remained! Some of us tried to get rickshaws but could manage only one. The rest of us braved the 4 kms back on foot again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After a gap of a day, when we went for a visit to Fatehpur Sikri and the Taj Mahal, we returned to the park for a revisit. But that will require a second post..........</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://birdbuddies.blogspot.in/2014/01/trip-to-keoladeo-ghana-national-park.html">Day two of the trip</a> </span></div>
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Sumita B. Chaudhry and Rajeev Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088664765561165425noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424200764617851814.post-88313763008054363572013-03-08T03:55:00.000-08:002015-03-07T18:01:41.120-08:0023. Colours of Africa : Mole National Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the main
attractions of Ghana is the Mole National Park. So the very first weekend we
packed a few clothes and a picnic hamper and off we drove to Mole from Mampong,
a distance of some 470 kms.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The road at this time of the year was beautiful,
albeit a little dusty in the last 90 kms. But that stretch of road is under
construction and looks to soon transform into a four lane tarred road. The
whole of Ghana is a little hilly so one sees long stretches of a straight road
going uphill and then dipping down for a long stretch with either teak or
cashew plantations growing alongside or massive mango trees laden with mangoes
near villages. </span></span><br />
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Neem there too). As we drove northwards through the towns of Nkoranza, Techiman,
Kintampo towards Damongo, the tall trees
gave way to the Savannah type of bushes and short, and at this time of year,
leafless trees. </span></span></div>
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sight which spread quite fast as the grass and dry leaves catch fire very
easily.</span></span><br />
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were racing with the setting sun so as to make it to the National Park before
it was dark. As we are at the equator once the sun starts to set it is gone in
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> As everywhere in Ghana, we were greeted warmly and made to feel
welcome at the Mole Motel, where we had made </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">telephonic </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">reservations as the
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next morning
we were off for a safari in our own vehicle with an armed guide, called
Christopher, for company. Christopher was a very knowledgeable and pleasant
person and took us to quite a few watering holes in the park. As it was the dry
season all the animals hover around the watering holes and are easy to spot. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mole
National Park stretches well over 4577 sq kms. (approx.) patrolled by over 180
Rangers and Forest guards It has 94 animal species and some 344 bird and 33
reptilian species. Its vegetation is of the Guinea Savannah woodland variety
and comprises of about 740 different species of plants and trees.</span></span></div>
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creature we saw was this beautiful and amazing large bird. It is called the Abyssinian
Ground Hornbill. Our guide told us that many ornithologists come to the park to
see just this bird. Lucky, lucky!! </span></span></div>
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of Hornbill, the other being, the Southern Ground Hornbill. The male has a red
throat pouch and the female has a blue throat pouch. Modified feathers form
long eye-lashes, which protect their eyes from dust. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Their diet consists of
small vertebrates and invertebrates including tortoises, lizards, spiders,
beetles and caterpillars. It can also eat carrion and fruits, seeds and
groundnuts.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As we were
moving ahead Christopher got a call from a fellow guide giving him information
about the movement of elephants in the park. Elephants along with hippos and <span style="font-size: large;">buffaloes</span> are the large animals seen in the park â though we never saw the last
two. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lions and leopards have not been sighted for long, though the park has a
night safari when, our guide told us, one can see some carnivores like hyenas
etc.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Right then we saw this huge single tusked elephant, who has become a
little mellow with age. The guides call him the âOld Manâ. We wondered how he would
have lost one of his tusks!</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Old Man" the single tusked old Elephant</span></b></span></td></tr>
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ahead, Christopher would make us stop
every now and then to see some animal and everywhere we managed to see a number of brightly <span style="font-size: large;">colored</span> birds, also some not so bright but exotic all the same. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many of our
pictures are hazy because our hands shook being bitten by the nasty tsetse flies
-the deadly flies carrier of the yellow fever (sleeping sickness). We were glad
to have been <span style="font-size: large;">inoculated</span> against the dreaded disease before we set foot on
African soil. Incidentally, all our fears of contacting malaria have been
proved misplaced because we havenât seen a single mosquito since we came here. Perhaps, the dry Harmattan (trade winds) which blow from December to end February
is not conducive to the health of the mosquito!</span></span></div>
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through the forest for some 3 hours we turned back. On the way we were stopped
by some guards on foot who had found three animal traps in the forest for
trapping buffalos! Hideous! Poaching is a major problem in the park as the
human population which was dislocated from the park to start with, is now
located only a little distance away from the park boundaries. The guards
requested us to carry the heavy traps in our vehicle back to the Park office.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the way back
Christopher took us to a watering hole and lookout point which we had seen
through our binoculars from the motel. Saw the Giant African Kingfisher and the
lovely Jacanas frolicking there.</span></span><br />
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the motel for our breakfast well past 11 am, not a bit tired or hungry after a
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the evening we went to see the Larabanga Mosque<span style="font-size: large;">, a unique Sudanese style mud and stick mosque. It is located about 15 kms on the way to the park.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next day in the morning we went t<span style="font-size: large;">o the Mongori Eco Village and collected some Shea Butter which is made from the seed of a tree called by the same name. Now days <span style="font-size: large;">shea butter is becoming the new fad in cosmetics along with coco butter, both products of Ghana.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">We met Kwame in the village who offered to take us for a canoe ride on the Mole river<span style="font-size: large;">. It was almost an enchanted place with the trees forming a canopy over the river and <span style="font-size: large;">the sound of twittering and chirping little birds flying from <span style="font-size: large;">side to side and over your head interspersed with the <span style="font-size: large;">rhythmic</span> </span>sound of the paddle in the water.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: large;">The birds and animals we saw at Mole are listed below, apart from the Abyssinian Ground Hornbill which is already described above. Some birds I am still struggling to identify.</span></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN">African Fish Eagle. It
resembles an American Bald eagle and is the National Bird of Zimbabwe and
Zambia. The male of this species has a wing span of about 2 metres (6 feet),
while females can stretch upto 2.4 metres (8 feet), the female being larger
than the male.</span></span></li>
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sacrifice in some communities) this antelope barks like a dog.</span></span></li>
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The Adult males are very territorial and possessive about their areas of
demarcation. As such, the young do not have much grazing territory. Therefore,
they have little option, but to gang up together and fight the adults in a body
to gain territorial possession. In some
communities, for the village Chiefs, it is very essential to possess the skin
of a Kob antelope, before they assume the office of the Chief.</span></span></li>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN">The Violet Turaco also known as
Violaceous Plantain Eater. They are 45 cm long, including a long tail, the
plumage is glossy violet except for the yellow forehead and chestnut crown. The
bill is thick and red. The violet Turacoâs crimson primary flight feathers
contrast with the violet plumage. It feeds on fruit, especially figs and some
seeds.</span></span></li>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN">The Tsetse Fly also known as Tik-tik
flies are large biting flies inhabiting most of mid continental Africa between
the Sahara and Kalahari deserts. They feed on the blood of vertebrates and are
the primary biological vectors of tripanosomes which cause human sleeping
sickness and animal tripanosomiasis. We tried to swat them but they would just shake their wing<span style="font-size: large;">s and fly off like fleas. We did not get the satisfaction of killing a single one.</span></span></span></li>
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Savannah and woodland in sub-Sahara Africa. The name comes from the four large
wart-like protrusions found on the head of the wart-hog which serve as a fat
reserve and are used for defence when the males fight.</span></span></li>
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</span><span lang="EN-IN">Western Grey Plantain Eater.
This is a large member of the Turaco family. It is a group of large arboreal,
near â passerine birds restricted to Africa. A Resident bird, it breeds in open
Woodland Habitats in tropical West Africa, laying two or three eggs in a tree
platform nest.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">They are 50 cm long. Including a long tail. The plumage is
mainly grey spotted with brown. The head, erect crest, neck and breast are
brown streaked with silver. The under-parts are whitish heavily streaked with
brown. It has a thick bright yellow bill and shows a white wing bar in flight.
The sexes are identical, but juveniles have a black woolly head without silver
streaking. It feeds on fruit especially figs, seeds and other vegetables.</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Red Throated Bee Eater nests in the ground.</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A whole lot of bee eaters were nesting in these holes and flew out when I inadvertently disturbed them.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Kwame called this one Bataleur eagle but I have my doubts</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN">Some of the birds and animals (listed below) we saw were too frisky for us to take a picture of. One was the beautiful little Blue Flycatcher, which looked almost angelic as it flew around us while we canoed down the Mole river but alas! eluded capture on our cameras. </span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-IN">
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bird)</span></span></li>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN">Hadada Ibis
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN">Green Monkey, Sabaeus monkey</span></span></li>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN">Drongo</span></span></li>
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</span><span lang="EN-IN">Yellow-billed woodpecker </span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Links:</span></span></i></b></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></b></u></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1) <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-funerals-in-ghana.html">Funerals in Ghana</a></span></span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2) <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-visit-to-ghana_8.html">The Adinkra symbols of Ghana, West Africa</a></span></span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3) <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-visit-to-ghana-lake.html">Bosumchwe or Bosumchwi Lake, Ghana</a></span></span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4) <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-visit-to-ghana-trip.html">El Mina Slave Castle/Fort, Ghana</a> </span></span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5) </span></span></i></b></span><u><i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://exclusivecoins.blogspot.in/2013/01/87-coinage-and-currency-of-ghana-cedi.html?utm_source=BP_recent">History of Coinage and Currency of Ghana</a></span></span></span></b></i></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>6) </b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-visit-to-ghana_16.html">Larabanga Mosque and the Mystic Stone, Ghana</a></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">7) <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-visit-to-ghana.html">A visit to Ghana</a></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">8) <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2013/03/colours-of-africa-food-and-culture.html">Food and Culture of Ghana</a></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">9) <a href="http://fabhobbies.blogspot.in/2013/04/colours-of-africa-trip-to-ghana-anyone.html">Oware: The National Board game of Ghana</a> </span></b></i></span><br />
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<u><i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></u>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yesterday I saw this magnificent bird of prey sitting outside my window
on the Gulmohar tree. The sun was behind it so managed to get only this clear
shot before a bunch of crows irritated it off its perch and escorted it out of the
locality. The Long Legged Buzzard is a winter migrant to India. It can be one
of three different hues â pale, rufous or dark. Mine is of the pale colour. One
can identify it by the dark patches on the bend of each wing and the dark trailing
edges of the wings. The rufous tail is rounded at the end. The bill is dark and
the eyes brownish â yellow; the long legs are yellow (sorry to have missed the long legs in the picture!)</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Post 11th March 2013: Yesterday my sister saw this bird in Lucknow! She happened to catch the long legs!</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><b>Distribution: </b>The Long Legged Buzzard resides in the arid and semi arid
areas of North Africa. It hunts for preys in wide open areas utilising its
sharp eyesight. Its diet essentially consists of small mammals, reptiles and
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><b>Breeding:</b> It makes nests of sticks in rocky ledges and cliff sides as
also trees and shrubs, sometimes rebuilds nests abandoned by other birds. It
breeds only once a year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Spent the last few days of 2012 in Chennai <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with our friend Ajit and enjoyed bird-watching
like never before! Why? Well for one because we were seeing water birds
from Ajitâs drawing room! One of the few marshes still surviving the tentacles
of urban development is just in front of Ajitâs house and I spent hours
watching nesting Purple Moorhens, Spotbills, Herons, Egrets and Cormorants,
sitting on the sofa. A Bird Watcherâs dream come true.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">White Throated Kingfisher</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our appetite thus whetted we were really excited to visit
the Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary situated about 75 km from OMR, where we were
staying. The early morning drive on NH45 via Tambaram, Vandalur zoo,
Chengalpattu and Padalam Junction was quite pleasant, the road looked recently tarred.
From the Padalam Junction we turned right and drove about 11kms till we saw the
Forest Rest House (FRH); a km ahead brought us to the sanctuary gate. Ofcourse
Ajitâs GPS made the job rather easy robbing us of the adventure and thrill of
losing our way in the forest (thereâs no pleasing some people!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vedanthangal is the smallest (73 acres) and the oldest bird
sanctuary in India. There is a very heartening story behind its creation. Way
back in 1798 on the complaints of the villagers about rampant hunting of birds
by local landlords and British soldiers, Vedanthangal, meaning âhamlet of the
hunterâ in Tamil, was declared a protected zone by the British Government. In
1936 it was recognised as a sanctuary. In free India the Madras Forest Act of
1962 accorded it the status of a reserve forest and the 1972 Wildlife
protection Act declared it a wildlife sanctuary. The villagers are still
actively involved in the welfare of the sanctuary and we encountered a large
friendly group who wanted to see the pictures I had taken of the birds. Then
they wanted me to take their pictures. Then they returned the favour by posing
with me and took pictures with their mobiles. Peoplesâ desire to be
photographed never fails to touch me while travelling in the villages of India. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A walkway has been made alongside a rainfed tank where the
migrating birds land to nest on the Barringtonia and acacia trees to nest. Many
amenities and facilities have been provided for the tourists including a Forest
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was thrilled to see Pelicans for the first time in the
wild even though Anu and Ajit were disappointed that the number of birds were
not as many as they had seen on earlier visits. I guess by end January-February
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A heron in the adjoining field</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Streak Throated Swallows <span style="font-size: small;">in the adjacent fields</span></span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eurasian Spoonbills</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Coexisting in Harmony</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The only Indian Spotbilled Duck seen at the sanctuary</span></span></b></td></tr>
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Hear and see the bright and melodious male Golden oriole, beautifully videographed by Ajit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eurasian Collared Dove</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After saying a quick prayer to the sanctuary God to keep it safe we returned very pleased with our trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The barbets are called so because they have bristles
growing around their thick beaks (Latin barba, beard). </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><u><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Brown-Headed Barbet</span></span></b></u></span></h2>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Megalaima zeylanica</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">27 cm</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Male/female alike</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Characteristics</b>: Brown head and breast finely streaked,
brown throat, orangish circumorbital (around the eye) skin and bill (when
breeding), white spotted wing coverts. Streaking is almost absent on belly and
flanks. They are a little clownish to look at with their plump bodies and big
heads on a short stocky neck and thick, red bill.They have an unmistakeable
loud call. Rakaâs next door neighbour Mrs DâCosta (an ardent animal/bird lover,
God bless her soul) in Lucknow used to call the bird âBataoâ (meaning âsayâ in
Hindi) because that is how he sounds. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Distribution</b>: Widespread resident but their colourings
and their penchant for densely leaved high trees, makes them difficult to take
a picture of, even though you can hear their loud call resonating from every
tree. You can imagine my delight when after chasing them in all the beautiful old
ficus trees in the <a href="http://justtravelmusings.blogspot.in/2012/10/back-to-roots-trip-to-lucknow-4-lucknow.html">Lucknow Residency</a> I found this one nesting hardly at a
height of 7-8 feet and boldly looking at me too! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">In Maharashtra Iâm more likely to see the white-cheeked
barbet, which is more common in the Western Ghats. Still waiting to click one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Diet</b>: Eats fruits, berries and insects.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Breeding</b>: The Barbets in Rakaâs garden would nest in
the same hole, dug by the birds themselves like a woodpecker, in the small 'Harsingar' tree every year till she chopped of the tree :-{ (unbelievable!!). They
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forehead and breast patch, yellow patches above and below the eye, yellow
throat and streaked underparts, would be quite conspicuous if it wereânt so
little. The Juvenile does not have the red on head and breast. Has a repetitive
tuk tuk tuk call which sounds like the hammering of a metal-smith hence the
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open wooded country and groves. I have regular visitors on the Gulmohar tree
outside my Living room window. You must see Rajeevâs video of a couple of them
fighting like kids to sit inside a tree hole where they roost on a hot day even
when not nesting.</span></span></div>
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helping in seed dispersal. Sometimes they will eat insects like termites. </span></span></div>
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nests like the other barbets. They breed practically the year round with some
local variations. 3-4 eggs are laid at a time and incubated by both parents. </span></span></div>
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and the back of the crown and a black band across crown. Juveline has duller
colors. Call is a loud took-a-took.</span></span></div>
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Today, early morning, we drove out some 50 kms to the
Nawabganj Bird<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sanctuary, on the
Lucknow-Kanpur highway. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>October, of course
is too early for the migrating birds but still we expected to find some
resident birds. The place has always had a lot of monkeys, so we made sure we
did not carry any plastic bags or food with us. The drive through the city, many
parts of which looked completely new to us, took well over an hour. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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expected the caretaker told us that the migratory birds
were yet to arrive. The season will start with the approach of winter
and will reach a peak in January-February when you can see over 200
varieties of birds here, coming all the way from frozen Siberia.</div>
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lake, all of us clicking away. A water-body, as large as the one in Nawabganj, will
inevitably have a whole eco-system flourishing around it, and you will see a variety
of creatures thriving there. The trees and the lichen and the waterlilies on
the water and the sounds of the heronry on the trees in the middle of the lake
are sights and sounds which would gladden any nature loverâs heart. A surprise sighting was a <a href="http://birdbuddies.blogspot.in/2012/06/asian-paradise-flycatcher-heavenly.html">paradise fly catcher</a> which glided across out of sight. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Characteristics :</b> There is a place on the outskirts of Pune
where three rivers, the Bhima, Bhama and Indrani, meet and therefore called the
Triveni Sangam. I go there only to see this bird fish. It is a most amazing
sight. The bright looking bird, with its black and white plumage perched atop a
tree or hovering over the lake occasionally plunging down and going up again
(probably when losing sight of its prey) and then going for a smart swoop and coming
up with its prey in its mouth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The males have double breast bands, one broad one thin,
(like the one in the picture above) whereas, the females have a single broad
band often broken in the middle. Both have a small black crest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Distribution: </b>It is a widespread resident bird. An
interesting fact is that it is the worldâs third most common kingfisher. They
are found near still, fresh water bodies, slow moving rivers and streams, also
tidal creeks and pools where acquatic creatures and fish are to be found. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Breeding : </b>The pied kingfisher nests in 4-5 feet deep holes
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<b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">White throated Kingfisher</b> :</h3>
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<i>Halcyon smymensis</i></div>
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<i>Size 28 cm</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A little painting I made </span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Characteristics : </b> Compared to the other two of its specie, the
white throated or white breasted kingfisher is rather large in size. It has a
bright blue back, wings and tail and chestnut head, shoulders, flanks and lower
belly. The large bill and legs are bright red. In flight white patches can be
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Distribution : </b>Most commonly seen kingfisher is a widespread
resident. Unlike the other two kingfishers on this page, it can be found even
in places away from water. As it is not choosy about its diet and is not
predated upon because of its strong bill and swift flight, the white throated
kingfisherâs population is not threatened. :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Common Kingfisher</b> : </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Distribution </b>: It is a widespread resident bird. They are
found near any water body which has some acquatic creatures. If I donât see
this bird when I am on a beach or a lake I feel a little heart-broken. It is
such a cheery sight to see a patch of bright blue and orange, sitting
motionless, on a rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Characteristics :</b> They have bright blue upper parts and orange
under parts and ear coverts. There are white patches on each side of their neck
and chin. The legs are red with a blue stripe. The male has a black bill and
the female has a black bill with a reddish base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Diet:</b> They feed on fish, acquatic invertebrates and amphibians.
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head first, after coming back to their perch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Breeding :</b> Common Kingfishers can nest upto three times a
year â in April, July and October.They nest in tunnels, 2-3 feet in length in
the sand near a water body. They line the nest with fish bones and disgorged
pellets (a bed of thorns!). The female lays 5-7 pinkish eggs which both
incubate in turn and also when hatched both parents feed them. Which is just as
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Sumita B. Chaudhry and Rajeev Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088664765561165425noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424200764617851814.post-69151527626500569342012-08-10T00:34:00.000-07:002015-03-07T17:59:20.273-08:0017. On being a âbird-watcherâ!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I know what the guys are thinking! My 70 year young cousin
loves this ad on TV these days, in which a boy takes his old neighbour âbird-watchingâ
to all the places where groups of girls can be seen. I must admit that there
are distinct similarities in the two kinds of âbird-watchersâ. I can of course only talk for the kind I am but you can easily draw parallels for the other variety too. For one if you
are standing in a group and talking and suddenly see some colour or movement nearby,
you stop mid-sentence to check the variety of 'bird'. It may only be a 'sparrow',
but those are getting rare too.</div>
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Secondly, you are under pressure to know every 'bird haunt' in
and around your town. You name a place and I will know which bird you are
likely to find there. Say, to see <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
serpent eagle or a red minivet you should go to the Sinhagad forest, but to see
the crested bunting you have to climb up to the Sinhgad Fort.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGPvoFEG8vb-GnnZP1a5mZj2fcBlL69mIb3HNN0nEtmobJ7b-jmOpIggTXA15oNerszxQohJ1-ebDwcCaCEhPuLTiOkXeA2nqLvI82PfOUbfAzXEHucfmbI-ILjeHjf4UctlHRFBsD2Bzc/s1600/DSC01836.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGPvoFEG8vb-GnnZP1a5mZj2fcBlL69mIb3HNN0nEtmobJ7b-jmOpIggTXA15oNerszxQohJ1-ebDwcCaCEhPuLTiOkXeA2nqLvI82PfOUbfAzXEHucfmbI-ILjeHjf4UctlHRFBsD2Bzc/s400/DSC01836.JPG" height="388" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Serpent Eagle</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Crested Bunting</span></b></td></tr>
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Thirdly, no matter how many times you have seen it, you would
love to get another glimpse of that 'bird'. This Golden Oriole visits the tree
outside my house every year but every year I am watching and waiting for it to
come.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Golden Oriole</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fourthly, no matter
where you go 'birds' are always on your mind. I am forever on the lookout for
birds <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">and
find them in the oddest places. Here is a
Shikra peeping through a gate like a dog.</span></span></div>
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Fifthly, people who donât share your passion seem a little
colourless and boring. Now I canât possibly post a picture under this point, there will be hell
to pay - but you know the type.</div>
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Sixthly, you go to great lengths to identify any new 'bird' you
see â promptly referring the âexpertsâ. Here's one bird you do not see ordinarily.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chukar or 'Chakor'</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lastly it is your abiding
dream to see the 'Birds of Paradise' some time in your life (here personal
favourites matter depending on whether you are the Hollywood or the Bollywood
types). So far I have only managed to see a Paradise Flycatcher.</div>
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Sumita B. Chaudhry and Rajeev Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088664765561165425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424200764617851814.post-31250823254673351942012-07-11T07:56:00.001-07:002015-03-07T17:57:52.488-08:0016. Birding in Alibagh while beach hopping<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the water has receded Alibagh Beach has the largest
stretch of sand, with horse-carts giving tourists rides in the water, all the
way up to Shivajiâs Kolaba Fort. Lots of food stalls and bathers so the number
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like the famous Orinthologist, Salim Ali, one needs to go to
Akshi and Nagaon beaches to do some serious bird-watching. Akshi is about 3 km
and Nagaon 7 km from Alibagh beach. The latter being approached through a
fishing village will majorly affect your olfactory senses but you can also see
the Khanderi and Undheri Forts from here.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Western black-tailed Godwit,</span></span></b> <i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Limosa limosa</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seeing the Wire Tailed Swallows perched, for a change on a dry piece of wood on the Akshi beach, and not circling above,
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a popular bollywood movie locale as also that of getaway weekend homes of the
rich and the famous of Mumbai. But the Black Headed Gulls are everywhere. They are winter migrants to these parts and are currently in their white headed avatar. Towards the end of their stay they start molting and the characteristic black heads will appear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last is the Versoli Beach between the Forts of Khanderi
and Undheri on one side and Kolaba on the other. The fishing boats of the
Koliwada ie the fishermenâs village are ever present. In the trees growing alongside the Versoli Beach one can see some interesting bush birds too. For instance I always find these green pigeons dozing in the afternoons. </span><br />
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Sumita B. Chaudhry and Rajeev Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088664765561165425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424200764617851814.post-79882068784229167942012-07-03T18:47:00.000-07:002015-03-07T17:57:38.231-08:0015. A Birders Nature Walk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">You
can make walking a
hobby rather than an ordeal, necessary for good health. One way of
walking is
to plug earphones and totally obliterate the surroundings and just focus
on
completing the number of rounds you need to do for burning the calories
consumed. The other is to do some carbon neutral sight-seeing while
walking.
For this you need a good pair of walking shoes and keep your ears and
eyes
open. Ideally you could carry a small camera. The first proper Nature
Walk I
went for was in the Borivili National Park organised by the BNHS (Bombay
Natural History Society). It was such a lovely experience that since
then I
have started converting all my walks into Nature Walks. The BNHS Nature
Walk
was with a group of nature enthusiasts so if someone saw a bird he would
point
it out to the rest of us or if one saw some insects he/she would
identify it
for the rest. We were lucky to have a few budding entomologists with us
(as young as 11-12 years old) on that
trip who kept us from stepping on every little bug or ant. Our Guide was
a Botanist so we identified every tree we passed. That day
I realised that it is very important to try to name the creatures and
flowers
and trees you see along the path because that gives your left brain
something
to do other than the usual worrying and to stay alert and enthusiastic.
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Nature Walks, (even if it is just around the neighborhood), that I have seen the
most beautiful creatures which normally donât stand a chance of registering
themselves on a busy mind working on an overdrive. These butterflies for
instance- I truly appreciated their beauty and diversity when trying to
identify them out of thousands of varieties, matching every spot and mark and
colour.</span></span></div>
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Precis (Junonia) Almana</h2>
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Neptis Hylas, Common Sailer</h2>
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Eurema Hecabe Hecabe,</h2>
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Oriental Common Grass Yellow</h2>
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Tirumala Limniace Blue Tiger</h2>
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Papilio Polytes</h2>
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Oriental Great Eggfly</h2>
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by Raka. The female of this species mimics the Pachliopta
Aristolochiae, the Indian Common Rose with which I was confusing this
one but the body of the Common Rose is red.</span></span></h2>
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Papilio Polytes Papilionidae, Female Common Mormon</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Incidentally the Euploea
core Nymphalidae or the Common Indian Crow pupated in a couple of my house plants.
One day I suddenly saw this gem like shining pupa hanging from under a leaf of
my potted plant. Then I saw another one. Here I give a series of pictures of the emergence of the
butterfly. It took over 3 hours to dry its wings and fly off. Initially it
clung to the empty pupa shell for at least an hour before it could bring itself
to move away from it.</span></span></div>
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Green and Black Beetles</h2>
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Stink Bug nymphs and the empty egg shells.</h2>
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One baby is missing!</h2>
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Dragon Fly</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The multi-coloured Dragonflies
and Damselflies with lovely diaphanous wings used to be the most common insects
in my childhood but todayâs urban child may never have seen one! They are mostly
found near water bodies, specially the Damselflies. One way to know the
difference between the two is to see the wings when at rest â the Dragonfly can
only hold their wings sideways at about a 90 degrees angle, whereas the Damselflies
can both fold the wings up over their slimmer bodies and bring them together
vertically, like a butterfly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">My favorite are of course
the birds. On our morning walks we discovered a little spot, just off the main
road, where some drain water was collecting and some bushes and grass had grown.
It had the most amazing variety of bush birds. Here are the pictures of some of
them. </span></span></div>
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Ashy Crowned Sparrow Lark</h2>
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Red Avadavat</h2>
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White Breasted Water Hen</h2>
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Grey Francolin</h2>
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Little Green Bee eater</h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">White Throated Kingfisher</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Sometimes when I donât see
anything very exciting there are still the street dogs, (Rajeev calls them the D-company because they</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> operate in
gangs chasing away outsiders, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">both dogs and sometimes, unsuspecting
humans </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">).
Inevitably I find a street dog or
two accompanying us on our walks. Earlier I used to think that they know
I am a
dog lover so they are drawn to me. Now after some close observation I
have realized that they are more often than not using me to get into
forbidden
territory guarded by other dog outfits. They try to show the territory
owners
that they are with a human who they use as a shield. Many a times I have
had to
take up cudgels on behalf of the dog who has selected me as the sucker
of the
day! </span></span></div>
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Who can resist that look!</h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then there are other fellow walkers to catch up with.</span></b></td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The ancient Greeks called
butterflies âpsycheâ. They believed that when the soul left the body, it
flew to heaven like a butterfly.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Over 70% of the over 1
million species in the Animal Kingdom consists of insects.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Insects are divided into
30 orders, mainly on the basis of the features on their wings.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Some insect orders are â
Coleoptera (beetles), Hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants), Orthoptera
(grasshoppers and crickets), and Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The colourful wings of
butterflies are for camouflage. Specially moths blend into their surroundings
and avoid detection by predators. The bottom side of butterfly wings are mostly
dull which when closed help the butterflies to suddenly âdisappearâ. Many butterflies
have eye spots on their wings, like the Precis Almana above, to mimic the head of
large animals. The very brightly coloured butterflies are usually poisonous or
distasteful and will leave an indelible memory for the animals eating them the
first time.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Most colourful butterflies
have derived and stored the poison in their bodiy as caterpillars by feeding on
poisonous plants. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Odonata is subdivided
into Anisoptera (Dragonflies) and Zygoptera (Damselflies).</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The dragonflies have very
large compound eyes made up of as many as 28000 single units (the ommatidia)
each with its own lens, giving them excellent all round vision. Their neck is
also very flexible enabling them to turn their head from side to side, used by
them for aerial pursuit of prey.</span></span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> The Stink Bugs are of the Hemiptera
order, suborder Heteroptera.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">They are called stink bugs
because they produce unpleasant smells to ward off their enemies. The smelly
chemicals are produced by glands in the thorax of adult stink bugs and the
abdomen of nymphs.</span></span></h4>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">The newly hatched stink
bug nymphs cluster around the empty eggshells to resemble a larger creature. Another
advantage is that if attacked, their combined chemical defences are almost
equal to that of an adult.</span></span></h4>
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</ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">I find the sun birds to be
one of the commonest specie found all over India. You will suddenly see a small
glimmer in the sunlight and know it is there. Where there are flowers with
nectar, there are sunbirds. Though they also eat insects like spiders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Characteristics </b>: Since
childhood I have been fascinated by this tiny, almost black bird, shining like
metal in the sun. My dad pointed out once that the bird instead of reaching for
the nectar from the front of the flower was taking a short-cut by piercing it
from the side with its curved beak. He said it was cheating the flower as it
was not getting pollinated. That image has somehow remained with me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Sometimes they take nectar
while hovering like a hummingbird. The
females are olive brown above and yellow below. The non breeding males have
yellow underparts with a black streak in the centre.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">There is also a bright
blue shoulder patch on breeding males and a maroon shine around the collar is
visible during the breeding season. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Distribution :</b> It is a
widely distributed resident from West Asia to the sub-continent and SE Asia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Breeding :</b> The breeding
season is April to June in India. The nest is a hanging pouch made with grass
and other plant material held together with cobwebs. Normally 2 eggs are laid
and incubated by the female. The male shares in feeding the chicks.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Aethopyga
siparaja seheriae (seen in Manali HP)</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Aethopyga
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Aethopyga
siparaja vigorsii</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Aethopyga
siparaja seheriae</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> <i>Size 10 cm</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b>Characteristics
:</b> The male has a metallic blue-green crown, the nape is brown with a greenish
sheen, the sides of the head, neck, back and upper wing coverts are crimson,
rump is bright yellow and the lower wing coverts are dark brown, tail is a
shiny black with a violet hue, the central feathers metallic green and longer
than the rest of the tail; and the abdomen a dull grey shade. It is amazing how
in 10 cms of space so many colors can be contained. The first time I saw this
bird through a pair of fieldglasses in Panchgani, I had been totally mesmerised
by the play of colours in the setting sun light. The female is a dull olive
green, the wings and tail are brown, with a yellow patch under the wings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b>Distribution
:</b> The Aethopyga siparaja vigorsii is found along the Western ghats which has a metallic patch behind the ear which is not there in its </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Himalayan counterpart</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> ,the Aethopyga
siparaja seheriae.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Purple
Rumped Sunbird</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">leptocoma
(Nectarinia) zeylonica 10cm. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Characteristics :</b> the
upperparts of the bird are a mix of red and green and purple which glistens
with a metallic sheen in the sun, it also has a maroon breast band. The lower
parts are yellow. The rump is a metallic purple which has earned him his name.
The female has a olive brown back and lower parts are yellow with a greyish
throat and a darker shoulder patch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Distribution : </b>It is a resident
bird. Widespread in Central and South India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and can
be found in a variety of habitats except perhaps thick forests. This little
fellow for instance was a regular visitor to my terrace when the Aloe vera
bloomed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Breeding :</b> It breeds
during the monsoons but may have more than one brood during the year. They make
these hanging pouch shaped nests with grass and cover it on the outside with
cobweb and nick-nacks. They lay 2-3 brown spotted eggs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Lotenâs
Sunbird</span><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">cinnyris
lotenius 13cm. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Characteristics :</b> Often mistaken for the
purple Sunbird, Lotenâs has a longer beak and a maroon band on the breast. The
female lacks the Purplesâ supercillium. The breeding male sometimes displays
yellow pectoral tufts as can be seen in the picture. (This little fellow was in the habit of napping outside my bedroom window.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">It is named after Joan Gideon Loten, a Dutch
Governor of then Ceylon, in colonial times. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Distribution
: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">It
is a resident bird. <i> </i>Only found in Central and South India, and
Sri Lanka.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Breeding :</b> November to
March is the breeding season in India and February to May in Sri Lanka. The nest
is built by the female the eggs exclusively incubated by her. The male helps in
feeding the chicks. </span></span></div>
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Sumita B. Chaudhry and Rajeev Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088664765561165425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424200764617851814.post-41218601975113785742012-06-28T18:08:00.001-07:002015-03-07T17:57:02.444-08:0013. Birding in Lonavla<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">June 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ever since we went to Lonavla for a field trip with our
Ornithology class it has become our favorite Bird Watching site. Unlike
earlier, we have no time for Cooperâs chocolate fudge or sampling fruit candies
and buying chikki. But gigantic Bhaturas are something else, which you get at </span><span style="font-size: large;">an eatery enroute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The first time we went, we had a rare sighting of a Peregerine Falcon. A huge and majestic bird. It generated a lot of excitement in our bird watchers group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now we head straight for the Lonavla Lake, which unfortunately
has shrunk so much that even in the monsoons there is little water. A quick
scan with the field glasses reassures us that the White Wagtails,
Kentish Plovers, Indian Robins and Sykes Larks are there, then we proceed to the
water body, which is getting further away each year. Now we have to walk up to
the Kanifnath temple to glimpse the water. Come winter and a fair number of
water birds can still be seen.</span></div>
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garden, which is one of the most beautifully landscaped and maintained gardens
I have seen in these parts. Now, after the 26/11 incident public viewing has
been stopped. Hereâs a sample of the garden in full bloom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time permitting we take a detour to Pavna Lake and Lohgarh
fort and if lucky see a few birds otherwise there is always the view of the
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<span style="font-size: large;">This
year the monsoons were particularly heavy, so Lonavla had regained some
of its original beauty. The drive from Pune itself was beautiful with
yellow cosmos flowers blooming wild on both sides of the road, for as
far as the eyes could see. It was truly amazing! Then we found our
favourite breakfast joint "Gurudev Dhaba" looking very upscale and
spruced up but the 'stuffed parathas' tasting just as great. The most
delightful sight was the Lonavla Lake which was full up to the brim
after many years. This promises to be a good year for bird-watchers who
go to see the migratory birds in the winter.</span></div>
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Sumita B. Chaudhry and Rajeev Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088664765561165425noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424200764617851814.post-13189707447962749652012-06-25T19:46:00.000-07:002015-03-07T17:56:23.480-08:0012. Phansad Bird Sanctuary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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course on orinthology, Rajeev and I wanted to go to Phansad Bird Sanctuary,
which is the largest bird sanctuary in Maharashtra. Though primarily a bird
sanctuary it also harbours animals, snakes, insects, not to mention a variety
of plants and trees.</span></div>
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we booked the forest guest house, got some directions, packed a few clothes,
some food stuff and three packs of playing cards (our companion everywhere), and
along with our friends, Dennis and Maggie, (our constant companions along with
the playing cards), drove off - Pune to Lonavla got off the Express way towards
Khopoli, Pen, Alibagh via Rev Danda, Kashid and Murud-Janjira. After crossing Janjira, we kept looking
expectantly for the left turn which leads to the Forest Inspection Hut at
Supegaon. The first turn indicator to the Phansad Wildlife sanctuary was a red
herring. We had to drive upto Ursuli Phata from where the road climbs
approx.6kms to the top of the hill before one sees the gate to the Sanctuary. Along
the route as the vehicle climbs up the mountain road you get a beautiful view
of the sea off the Murud coast and for a moment you have a wonderful feeling of
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<span style="font-size: small;">At the beginning of the
forest trail a notice indicates that the forest is a carbon neutral Zone and
the trails inside are for trekking only and the vehicles should be parked
outside. There is a two-room forest hut which accommodates 4 adults, so we had
the whole place to ourselves. We stretched our legs after the long drive and
gulped the fresh air while reading the various information boards around the
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<span style="font-size: small;">We learnt that Phansad Bird
sanctuary is the largest sanctuary in Maharashtra,
harbouring over 164 varieties of birds, 17 species of animals, 27 snake
species, 90 types of flowering plants and 725 varieties of trees. The sanctuary
is located on the hills of northern Sahyadri range and the western coast of
India, with almost all the major species of the Western
Ghats being found here. The forest is spread over originally 53
sq. kms now grown to about 70 kms. Over the passage of time the rulers of the Murud-Janjira
state had preserved this forest as a hunting reserve. After years of exploitation
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<span style="font-size: small;">The forest guard met us and
promised to take us down one of the forest trails the next day. So after
requesting him to arrange for our meals, which somebody from a nearby village
makes and brings to the guest house, â what else! âwe sat down and played
cards. We play this 30 card game, for no stakes, at every opportunity. One of
the fringe benefits of retirement! </span></div>
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cards, with a flask of milky sweet tea and âbhajiasâ we decided to survey the
area surrounding our guest house. A warbler was foraging in the shrub nearby
but was too frisky for me to get a picture and ID it. (also a cow was foraging
in the forest, we,along with a labourer working there, managed to shoo it out
of the gate). But I got a picture of two mating Shield Bugs inside this fruit
with big shiny seeds which fascinated me no end. However, sorry not to be able
to provide the name of the fruit here, (will be obliged if somebody can let me
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">With the sun going down, the cheery sounds and sights of the forest
began to dissapear and we entertained ourselves chatting inside one of the
rooms. Suddenly the lights went off and we were in pitch darkness. A small
inverter tried to kick up but failed. So we went and sat outside in the
starlight feeling a little queasy. The sounds of the forest at night for city
bred people are a little unusual at best and downright scary at the worst, so
it affected the four of us differently, which would be apparent if we were to
write separate accounts of it. Speaking for myself, I was totally starry-eyed
seeing a star studded sky unhindered by the city lights and smog. We tried to
identify a few constellations with our limited collective knowledge. The
cricketsâ chirping was overpowering and camouflaged, to an extent, the small
rustling sounds in the dry leaves, which were more scary as they activated
Dennisâ fertile imagination, him being particularly wary of âcreepy crawliesâ.
The distant hoot of an owl or a sudden shriek of the night jar added suspense
and thrill. It was quite an experience trying to sleep in the pitch dark
looking at the stars from the small window and a dim light flickering in the
guard's room at some distance, while listening to the haunting sounds of the
forest. All in all, our first night in
the forest was good except for a few encounters with the mosquitoes, inspite of
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orange frog in his red water bucket; as mentioned earlier creatures like that
selectively try to scare him. Here are a couple of pics of the beautiful
Fungoid Frog (Rana Malabarica) with a bright orange back and yellow striped
legs. It emits a fungoid odour from its humeral gland, hence the name. </span><br />
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True to his word, the forest guard, Mr
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some rare and amazing birds, animals and insects. The life of the forest are
the watering holes (not unlike the pubs in the city â metaphorically called watering
holes!) and most of the sightings happen near them. Naik showed us some leopard
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This is the picture of a Orange Headed
Thrush which I saw for the first time. It had come for a drink of water and I
enjoyed the sight of it (male and female look alike) dipping its little head
over and over again in the water. Earlier we had felt a little whiff of air and
Naik had whispered that the <a href="http://birdbuddies.blogspot.in/2012/06/asian-paradise-flycatcher-heavenly.html">Paradise Flycatcher </a>had flown over our heads, but
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secretive and rarely seen. The deadly Sydney funnel web spider, which carries
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Last of all that day Naik took us to
see a live nest of vultures! If you are a bird watcher you will share my
excitement. Vultures are on the brink of extinction due to various reasons,
still being researched. A drug named Diclofenac which is a pain killer administered
to animals, reaches the vultures liver when it feeds on the animal carcasses
and subsequently causes organ failure in the bird. Apart from this lack of
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This was indeed a beautiful sight. But
there were a few forest crows harassing the vultures and trying to steal their
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On the way back suddenly Naik stopped
dead in his track and hushed us to silence. We heard some grunts and a lot of
rustling leaves under small feet, and the sight of at least 15 wild boars, just
a few feet away, took us completely by surprise and the ping of Rajeevâs
handycam surprised the animals too and sent them scampering for cover. He
managed to get the last two on his camera. I was too shell shocked to react and
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night Naik took us for another treat. We drove to a forest clearing in
the pitch dark (which in itself was quite adventurous) and sat, quietly,
expectantly, under the open sky. Suddenly around 8pm a small âchakku chakkuâ
sound arose from one side and soon there was an echo from the other side. In no
time the whole area was reverberating with a symphony of âchakku chakkuâ which
is the mating call of the Night Jars. Just the way it had started, after about
an hour or so, this amazing performance stopped. I tried to take a picture in
the night mode but unfortunately didnât have any recording device to record the
sounds. That has truly been one of the most memorable moments of my life. What
a wonderful day!</div>
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Next morning we thought we will
explore the forest on our own. So we took a trail and thought we will be able
to follow it easily. However, along the way we heard the gurgling sound of a
stream and I was all for seeing it. Rajeev, forever cautious, kept saying we
should not go any further but the sound of the water was really calling out to
me. To cut a long story short, I kept going forward trampling through dense
under growth with the others following reluctantly, Rajeev threatening to leave
me alone in the forest, until â yes â we got lost! Everything looked the same
and with Rajeevâs âI told you sosâ getting on my nerves we bumbled around for
almost 3 hours. Worse we didnât see a single bird or animal nor the gurgling
stream which must have been flowing hidden under rocks. Finally we could come
out onto a regular trail and after applying some navigational techniques like
the position of the sun etc. we did manage to reach the guest house. That was
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About Harvester Ants: These are
spotted in gardens and lawns too as they harvest grass seeds. One interesting
fact about them is that before storing the seeds in their godowns they remove
the seed plumule (the part that germinates to become the stem) so that they
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About Weaver Ants : The aggressive
little red ants you see in wooded areas are of this category and called
Oecophylla. They build their nests on trees weaving the leaves together with
great dexterity and intelligence. How they manage that is very interesting. The
worker ants take the babies (larvae) in their jaws and move them along the
edges of tender leaves which tickles them into secreting a sticky material
called silk from their glands. The workers then fold these leaves and stick
them with the glue. The leaves are mostly too far apart for these little
creatures so they form ant chains holding each otherâs waists to pull the two
leaves together (how cute is that!). In the process some ants are suspended in
air till the one catches on to another ant from the other leaf. It is a great
example of team-spirit where cooperation, trust and selfless devotion to duty
are amply demonstrated. The leaves of the tree are not damaged in any way as
they continue to do what they are meant to do. In fact the ants protect the
trees from other insect pests and even animals and birds and therefore share a
symbiotic relationship with the trees. They are, in fact, being used in some
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sri Lanka promotes its
natural resources through depicting imagery of its native flowers, birds,
historic/important monuments, culture and dances etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In <b>1979</b>, the currency Notes were printed
under the <b>âFauna and Floraâ series</b> in the Rs.2/- to Rs.100/-
denominations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In <b>1981</b>, the <b>âHistorical and
Archeological Themeâ series</b> was issued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>From 1991 to 2010</b>, <b>the âHeritage Seriesâ</b> was in place which went through several
revisions â in 1995 the series had an enhanced latent image at the centre
bottom of the obverse side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then again, in <b>2009</b>, another Commemorative
note (paper currency) was issued in the Rs.1000/- denomination on <b>âThe
ushering of peace and prosperity to Sri Lankaâ.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On <b>4<sup>th</sup> February 2011</b>, the current
series has been introduced with the theme <b>âDevelopment, Prosperity and Sri
Lankan Dancersâ</b> for circulation to commemorate Sri Lankaâs Diamond Jubilee
(60<sup>th</sup> year) of attaining its Independence. On the front these notes
also depict several birds and butterflies found in Sri Lanka:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A special feature of the Sri Lankan Notes
that the reverse side details are printed vertically and have to be viewed by
turning the note accordingly. Also as a security feature, the white watermark
window has an inset of the bird shown on the right hand side of the various
currency notes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The banknotes </b>are presently being issued in the denominations of, Rs.20/- , Rs.50/-,
Rs.100/-, Rs.200/-, Rs.500/-,Rs.1000/- and Rs.5000/-. The following images are
those of a few currency notes issued under this series depicting Birds and
butterflies found in Sri Lanka: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>20 rupees</b>: On the front of this Note is the Port of Colombo in the centre. To the
right side of the note is a bird âSri Lanka Serendib Scops Owlâ (Otus
thilohoffmanni) and a butterfly, the âBaronetâ (Symphaedra nais) is seen on the
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>50 rupees</b>: On the front of this note is the newly constructed bridge at
Manampitiya, alongside the old bridge common to both vehicles and trains is
shown in the centre alongwith an ancient Railway arch bridge appears in the
background. To the right of the note is a bird, the âSri Lanka Dull Blue
Flycatcher (Eumyias sordida) and on the bottom left is a butterfly âThe Blue
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>100 rupees:</b> The front of the note commemorates the âNorochcholai Coal Power Plant
Projectâ and the âLaxapana Waterfallâ, with power cables surrounding it in the
background. The bird on the right side of the Note is the âSri Lanka Orange
Billed Babblerâ (Turdoides rufescens); while a butterfly âthe autumn leafâ
(Doleschallia bisaltidae) appears on the lower left side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>500 rupees</b>: The front of the Note shows the World Trade Centre and Bank of
Ceylon Headquarters in Colombo and the ancient Buddhist temple
âLankathilaka Viharayaâ at Kandy in the background. The bird on the right hand
side of the Note is the âSri Lanka Emerald Collared Parakeetâ (Layardâs
Parakeet â Pssittacula calthropae) while on the lower left side is seen a
butterfly âThe Ceylon Indigo Royalâ âTajuria aridaâ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1000 rupees</b>: The front of this Note shows the newly constructed Ramboda Tunnel with
the Rock Wall at the same location before construction, in the background. âThe
Sri Lanka Hanging Parrotâ (Loriculus beryllinus) is shown on the right side of
the Note and a butterfly the âWhite Four Ringâ (Ypthima ceylonica).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>5000 rupees:</b> (predominant colour: gold) The âWeheragala Damâ and the âCanyon Damâ in
the background are shown on this Note. A bird, the âSri Lanka Yellow Eared
Bulbulâ (Pycnonotus penicillatus) is seen on the right side, while a butterfly
âLemon Migrantâ (Catopsilia Pomona) is seen on the left hand bottom.</span></div>
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The following Notes of four Denominations, are all from earlier Heritage series
which were last printed in 2010 and are still circulating currency Notes :
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the back of this 10
rupee Note, when viewed vertically is the Presidential Secretariat building in
Colombo, with flowers on the lower foreground. The Chinze appears in the white
watermark window as a security feature. On the upper right and side is a
picture of a Painted stork (Mycteria Leucocephala).</span></div>
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mask when the Note is viewed vertically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the back of this 100
rupee Note, when viewed vertically can be seen tea-leaf pickers in a tea
garden, with two Rose-ringed parakeets (Psittacula Krameri) sitting on a shrub
in the foreground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>500 Rupees</b>: On the back, when viewed
vertically, are a stork-billed kingfisher bird (Halcyon capensis) above a
temple and orchids (flowers) in the foreground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>1000 Rupees</b>: On the front, there is a Sinhalese Chinze
at the lower left, a two headed bird at the bottom centre, a decorated
elephant with its âMahoutâ (Trainer) on the right hand side.</span></div>
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vertically, is a picture of peacocks on the Palace lawns. There is also
the Octagon temple of the Tooth in Kandy with Lotus flowers above. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we are avid bird-watchers stationed in Pune, we
have made several sorties out to locate bustards in the areas around Pune where
they are supposed to be found, but have met with no success. Bustards are an
endangered species, today. Hats off to the P&T Deptt. India for championing
their cause as far back as 1980. Also, notice that this was a two rupee thirty
paise stamp, not rounded off to the nearest rupee. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sparrows which were a part of our growing up
days and are an endangered species today . Several studies have been
conducted to reverse the declining trend in their numbers. Don't miss the Rock pigeons which are still found in abundance in several towns of India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A miniature sheet, exhorting the World to do their
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