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haryana
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Spring-Summer - 207
Spring-Summer - 207 ... Another tiny bird ... ... an old world Warbler ... ... just 3.9-4.7 inches in size ( 10-12 cm ...) ... but a very large area of distribution i.e. ... from southern Europe to northern Australia ... ... and Africa and ... eighteen accepted geographical races ... The...- aloktewari
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- cisticola juncidis gurgaon haryana india zitting_cisticola
- Comments: 16
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 206
Spring-Summer - 207 Here's a composite of four images of this Forum rarity ... I posted yesterday ... Taken ... as he moved through the canopy during early morning foraging ... ... together ... they show all aspects of the plumage of this tiny Woodpecker ... At 13 cm this is larger...- aloktewari
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- brown-capped_pygmy_woodpecker faridabad-gurgaon haryana india mangar yungipicus nanus
- Comments: 12
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 205
Spring-Summer - 204 ... Here's a Forum rarity, today ... ... only 6 images in the database here A Woodpecker ... barely 13 cm in size ... ( 5 inches and a bit ) ... and appropriately has Pygmy as the middle name ... and nanus in the Latin name A bit of a Taxonmic turmoil he is facing...- aloktewari
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- brown-capped_pygmy_woodpecker faridabad-gurgaon haryana india mangar yungipicus nanus
- Comments: 15
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 203
Spring-Summer - 203 ... Here's another image of the Grey-bellied Cuckoo ... ... in better lighting albeit ... in messy setting ... as he shifted to a spot where light was coming through a gap in the canopy ... Watch him sitting here in a video-clip ... Link ...- aloktewari
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- faridabad-gurgaon grey-bellied_cuckoo haryana india mangar
- Comments: 17
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 202
Spring - Summer - 202 ... A relative Forum rarity today ... A species seen in Indian Subcontinent ... Grey-bellied Cuckoo ... a male here resident species with local migration ... A brood parasite as with many other Cuckoo species ... Watch him in a small video-clip ... 1st on...- aloktewari
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- faridabad-gurgaon grey-bellied_cuckoo haryana india mangar
- Comments: 15
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 201
Spring-Summer - 201 ... Here's one more pose of this courting pair ... It was taken under an expressway ... ... some piped holes that are left in the support pillars were being used by Parakeets and dozens of Bank Myna pairs ... the expressway is not fully functional yet ... Watch...- aloktewari
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- gurgaon haryana india rose-ringed_parakeet
- Comments: 13
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 200
Flavor of Summer ... A dating pair ... It is 2018 ... ... Not The summer of '42 ... As you see Does ... ... Your heart Still go Boom boody ... ... Boom boody for Me ... ! ________ Seems to be the expression of the male Rose-ringed Parakeet ... hearing the heartbeat of his lady love...- aloktewari
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- gurgaon haryana india rose-ringed_parakeet
- Comments: 17
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 199
Spring-Summer - 199 Here's a composite showing the gang of early arrivals ... ... back to India for a long ... 9 month stay in various parts of the country ... ... this is the earliest we have seen them coming back ... on July 16th ... Surprisingly, we did not see any immature birds...- aloktewari
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- flight gurgaon haryana india migration pastor roseus rosy_pastor rosy_starling
- Comments: 12
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 198
Spring-Summer - 198 Here's closeup of one of the early arrival ... The peach/pink wash ... that gives them the name ... is still clearly seen ... ... it will gradually fade into clear buff during their 8-9 months stay in various parts of India ... Watch the pink beauty in a video-clip...- aloktewari
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- gurgaon haryana india pastor roseus rosy_pastor rosy_starling starling
- Comments: 9
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 197
Spring-Summer - 197 It was July 16th ... ... and they were back to India ... with much pink still left in their plumage ... here ... they will stay till early part of May ... And yet ... they have the label of Winter Visitor to India ... The accompanying video clip shows a group ...- aloktewari
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- coturnix gurgaon haryana india pastor roseus rosy_starling
- Comments: 13
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 196
Spring-Summer - 196 ... On our last birding day ... we searched for a pair of Lesser Florican ... ... that was sighted by three birders and two guides ... separately on three occasions ... ... all of them sighted either male ... or female ... but not together on any occasion ... ...- aloktewari
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- black-inged_kite coturnix gurgaon haryana india
- Comments: 12
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 195
Spring-Summer - 195 ... Here's a closeup shot of this handsome dude ... taken at day-break ... ... gilded ... by the master artisan ... ... in another patch of forest ... that is even closer to my home than keoladeo ... ... in Aravalis ... the oldest mountain range on earth along with...- aloktewari
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- black-rumprd_flameback faridabad-gurgaon haryana india mangar
- Comments: 17
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 193
Spring-Summer - 193 ... A bird that I loved to watch and follow ... ... even when I was a primary school kid ... ... enjoyed their antics ... ... probing of ground for worms ... and repeatedly erecting and spreading their awesome crest ... Their Ttaxonomy is still in a flux ... ... with...- aloktewari
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- eurasian hooepoe faridabad-gurgaon haryana india mangar
- Comments: 12
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 192
Spring-Summer - 192 ... Never managed to get a presentable shot the male and female of this fabulous species ... in the same frame ... ... before this During nesting season ... ... while males love to sit on a prominent perch and call repeatedly to announce their territory ... ...- aloktewari
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- black_francolin coturnix gurgaon haryana india
- Comments: 16
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 191
Spring-Summer - 191 ... Male and female of this tiny 5-6 inch sized Buttonquail look fairly similar ... ... and not always easy to pick them apart in difficult field conditions ... The females are distinctly larger ... ... and have much brigher and more rufous color in the plumage ...- aloktewari
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- gurgaon haryana india turnix
- Comments: 12
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 190
Spring-Summer - 190 ... This species is a resident in the central peninsular part of India ... ... comes to our area in northwest region during summer for breeding ... The species shows reverse sexual dimorphism ... Females are the dominant ... bigger and more colorful partner ...- aloktewari
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- gurgaon haryana india turnix
- Comments: 16
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 189
Spring-Summer - 189 ... A Forum rarity ... ... though, named Common ... this tiny Buttonquail ... aka Small Buttonquial ... ( a better name I feel ) as these are barely 6 inches in size ( 15 cm ) ... only 7th image in the database here ... ... and the last came in July-2012 ...- aloktewari
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- gurgaon haryana india turnix
- Comments: 19
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 188
Spring-Summer 188 ... About half a dozen pairs of this lovely quail were present ... in an area of about one square km ... ... most of them being heard than seen ... ... we could see three pairs ... Here's a male posing well to show his characteristic black breast patch ... and belly...- aloktewari
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- coturnix coturnix coromandelica gurgaon haryana india rain_quail
- Comments: 21
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 187
Spring-Summer - 187 Here's Black Francolin female ... Very shy ... skulking and well camouflaged ... and she hardly ever calls ... ... the male in contrast loves to assume a prominent high perch and call repeatedly to claim his territory ... Watch a pair in a small video-clip ... Link...- aloktewari
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- black_francolin coturnix gurgaon haryana india
- Comments: 14
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 186
Life : A Riddle ________________ The riddle Of life ... Questions asked And Answered ... Issues solved Or Remaining ... Locked Man toils ... Does His bit And Goes away ... It is both Simple Yet Complicated But occasionally Becomes A conundrum Love it Or duck it It remains...- aloktewari
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- black_francolin coturnix gurgaon haryana india
- Comments: 14
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 185
Spring-Summer - 185 ... And ... the pair now It was lucky to get them so close ... and both above the level of fresh grass ... It was day-break .. and they had just begun feeding together ... ... allowing couple of presentable shots together ... Watch them in another video-clip ...- aloktewari
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- coturnix coturnix coromandelica gurgaon haryana india rain_quail
- Comments: 15
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 184
Spring-Summer - 184 ... Here's the female of Rain Quail ... even more difficult to photograph ... as they hardly ever stand up and call like males ... ... and they feed with their bellies nearly touching the ground ... There is a small period for getting their somewhat clear images ...- aloktewari
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- coturnix coturnix coromandelica gurgaon haryana india rain_quail
- Comments: 16
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 183
Spring-Summer - 183 This fabulous species is a resident in a large part of central and south India ... ... is a summer visitors to our area ... ... being more visible with the onset of summer showers ... Giving them their common name ... Rain Quail ... ... aka Black-breasted Quail ...- aloktewari
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- coturnix coturnix coromandelica gurgaon haryana india rain_quail
- Comments: 21
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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Spring-Summer - 182
The Monsoon Cuckoo ... __________ News on Jacobin Cuckoo and its association with Monsoon ... ... with my interview ... photo and bird's image take by me ... In Hindi Natioal Daily ... with highest readership ''Dainik Jagaran'' ... in NCR edition ... __________ 26.06.2018- aloktewari
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- clamator jacobinus faridabad-gurgaon haryana india jacobin_cuckoo mangar
- Comments: 11
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Spring-Summer - 181
Conflict of interest ... This wonderful Egyptian was soaring on early summer morning thermals ... ... rising out of a valley in Aravalis ... ... surrounded by low hills ... craggy with stunted Acacia and scrub ... As he reached above the yonder hills ... suddenly a Red-necked Falcon...- aloktewari
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- egyptian_vulture faridabad-gurgaon haryana india mangar red-necked_falcon
- Comments: 13
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands