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These clicks are taken from various locations from 10 feet to 100 feet from my home in Warora (Dist: Chandrapur).
These beautiful small bird have a medium sized, thin, down curved bill and tubular tongue specially adapted to collect nectar from flowers. Males have dark maroon upper side with blue-green crown and purple rump patch.
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These clicks are taken from various locations from 10 feet to 100 feet from my home in Warora (Dist: Chandrapur).
The clicked pictures are of female and non-breeding male which looks similar. Read about the breeding male which have black cap, but couldn’t spot it. (Update: So finally spotted Common Iora Breeding Male on 7th March 2021 on tree in front of house. See updated pictures.)
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These clicks are taken from various locations from 10 feet to 100 feet from my home in Warora (Dist: Chandrapur).
I clicked this bird around 20 days ago and waited to see if I could spot female too. But no luck yet. Will update accordingly.
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These clicks are taken from various locations from 10 feet to 100 feet from my home in Warora (Dist: Chandrapur).
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These clicks are taken from various locations from 10 feet to 100 feet from my home in Warora (Dist: Chandrapur).
The confusion between Sykes’s Warbler and Booted Warbler is here to stay. Hope to get better at birding.
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These clicks are taken from various locations from 10 feet to 30 feet from my home in Warora (Dist: Chandrapur).
Also called shimpi (शिंपी) in Marathi. Word tailorbird or shimpi is for it can stitch leaves together, in which nests are formed, hidden from predators. Male and female looks similar.
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These clicks are taken from various locations from 10 feet to 30 feet from my home in Warora (Dist: Chandrapur).
Male and female of this species look similar. I was introduced to this species as reason for declining bee-population in beehive box installed on terrace three years back. We had to shift the box in couple of weeks due to these birds.
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These clicks are taken from various locations from 10 feet to 30 feet from my home in Warora (Dist: Chandrapur).
The cattle egret is a cosmopolitan species of heron. This white bird looks meditative always. Watching it riding on back of cattle is fun but couldn’t capture it. Hope you love the clicks posted here.
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These clicks are taken from various locations from 10 feet to 20 feet from my home in Warora (Dist: Chandrapur).
It is also called White Throated Munia. Male and female are similar. They have distinctive conical silver-grey bill, brownish upperparts, white underparts, darker wings. The tail is black.
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