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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.
Chennai resident sights two rare warblers at home on the same day
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April 06, 2021 12:14 IST
The city falls in the migration route of the passage migrants Western Crowned Warbler and Large-billed Leaf Warbler. As these birds ‘pass through a narrow window of time’, there are not many records of them from these parts
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A Large-billed Leaf Warbler sighted in the greenery at an apartment complex in Pallikaranai on April 3, 2021. Photo: Sundaravel Palanivelu
The city falls in the migration route of the passage migrants Western Crowned Warbler and Large-billed Leaf Warbler. As these birds ‘pass through a narrow window of time’, there are not many records of them from these parts
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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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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.
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