The male Asian koel’s pleading
koo-oo is the avian world’s answer to Cliff Richard’s
Ocean Deep. With the lockdown cutting out the whir of engines, this courtship call is now clearly heard around human lodgings.
A brood parasite, the Asian koel (
Eudynamys scolopaceus) targets the crow’s nest and that includes the
corvus splendens, the ubiquitous house crow. The corvid being man’s commensal, the koel is also somewhat of a regular sight. Particularly between March and August, when the male pleads with his significant other, promising domestic bliss probably by drawing her attention to a ‘marked’ crow’s-nest.
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March 01, 2021 20:39 IST
Largely seen as a bird of Peninsular India, the species is found in pockets that combine hills and scrublands. In its range, why does this bird skip many terrains that match this description?
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A male and female Painted Spurfowl at Natham-Vallapakkam range in Vellore. Photo: Rama Neelamegam
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Rama Neelamegam
Largely seen as a bird of Peninsular India, the species is found in pockets that combine hills and scrublands. In its range, why does this bird skip many terrains that match this description?
Three bitter phasianidae realities birders from Peninsular India have to swallow.
Following the Indian Pitta from the Himalayan foothills to IIT Madras
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January 10, 2021 12:50 IST
This beautiful creature can be difficult to spot unless one knows how it moves, feeds and where exactly it hangs out so, here is a meet-up with the bird in its breeding and wintering grounds
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An Indian Pitta on the IIT Madras campus. Photo: Rama Neelamegam
| Photo Credit: Rama Neelamegam
This beautiful creature can be difficult to spot unless one knows how it moves, feeds and where exactly it hangs out so, here is a meet-up with the bird in its breeding and wintering grounds