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The White-spotted Fantail Rhipidura albogularis It all began with…… It all began with a melodious call I heard about 27 years ago…. This bird used to sing somewhere outside, at precisely 6.30 a.m., like an alarm clock reminding me to wake my son up for school, when we were in Ambarnath.  We shifted to Delhi after that, and the call got pushed to the back of...

Summer Melody……The Asian Koel Eudunamys scolopaceus It is that time of the year when you wake up early in the morning to the beautiful, melodious songs of the Asian Koel or Koyal. This brood parasite (it lays its eggs in the nest of the house or jungle crow) starts getting vocal at the beginning of summer with the song getting more melodious with each passing day....

The Sunshine Birds I see a bright flash of yellow in my backyard….and my heart is filled with joy and hope!  There is this feeling of ‘the sun is shining in the sky and all is well with the world’! Yes, here I am talking about the sunshine-yellow birds…the Eurasian Golden Oriole, the Common Iora, and the Purple-rumped Sunbird.  I call them  ‘the sunshine birds’ of my backyard. ...

Aditi’s Bird Registry Please click the hyperlinks to access each bird. Accenters Alpine Accenter Black-throated Accenter Rufous-breasted Accenter Ashy Prinia Ashy Woodswallow Asian Koel Babblers Common Babbler Barbets Brown-headed Barbet Coppersmith Barbet Great Barbet Bee-eaters Chestnut-headed Bee-eater Green Bee-eater Rufous-headed Bee-eater Black-winged Stilt Bulbul Eastern Yellow-vented Bulbul Himalayan Bulbul Red-vented Bulbul Red-whiskered Bulbul...

The Avifauna of Sirsi.  Birds & Wildlife   It was in June 2016, that I visited Sirsi in Uttara Kannada, for a week.  It was a vacation with my siblings and their spouses. We stayed at a beautiful Jungle resort, on the outskirts of Sirsi, bang in the middle of a tropical evergreen forest.  Our arrival early in the morning, from Kumta Railway Station, probably added to the charm of...