Just another boring brown bird from a distance...but let the sun hit those feathers, and iridescence shines, and subtle colors of greens and purples display in the outstretched wings,
Spring-Summer -
Setting the wetland
on fire ...
... with their
Gloss and ...
... iridescence
Moulting into
all important
plumage ... in
early summer ...
__________
Glossy ibis
Keoladeo National Park
Bharatpur
Rajasthan
India
9 April 2012
A bird of
Indian Subcontinent
Their number has
declined in
Pakistan ... but
stable in India ...
One individual in
Berlin Zoo attained
a life of 30 years
It was nice to see
that shoulder patch
in flight ...
__________
Red-naped Ibis
Pseudibis papillosa
Basai
Gurgaon
Haryana
India...
Though a resident in Western India, it is a winter visitor to the South.
It was an overcast morning and I could not do justice to the gloss of this ibis 
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