Facts By the Masters, Images, Checklists and Field Reports on Birds Of India. The dedicated online source for advancement of science of Indian bird studies. http://www.birdpoints.com en-us Copyright 2006-2009 Birdpoints Sat, 06 June 2009 08:30:00 GMT Birdpoints http://www.birdpoints.com/BPlogo1.gif http://www.birdpoints.com Facts By the Masters, Images, Checklists and Field Reports on Birds Of India. The dedicated online source for advancement of science of Indian bird studies. 60 webmaster@birdpoints.com The Demoiselle Crane appears early in October-often I think in September-generally in vast flocks, either flying in a straight line or in a line which the letter M. represents very well. Occasionally, but rarely, they will settle on large shallow jhils; but on the Chowka and Gogra at Byramghat they are often numerous, particularly during the very cold weather. They migrate in March, going, as they came, in immense flocks... http://www.birdpoints.com/CraneDemoiselle/CraneDemoiselle.htm Sat, 06 June 2009 08:30:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/CraneDemoiselle/CraneDemoiselle.htm Coloration. Male. Head and neck all round, and upper breast, deep crimson; chin blackish; remainder of lower parts bright crimson behind an ill-marked white gorget; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts along forearm ferruginous-brown, brighter and more rufous on rump and upper tail-coverts; wings as in H. fasciatus; middle tail-feathers rich chestnut, black-tipped, the next two pairs black, with usually part of the outer web chestnut; outer three pairs black, with long white tips... http://www.birdpoints.com/TrogonRed-headed/TrogonRed-headed.htm Tue, 26 May 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/TrogonRed-headed/TrogonRed-headed.htm Habits etc. The Great Indian Bustard is usually found singly or in twos or threes, more rarely in flocks, and it keeps chiefly to open dry country, especially wastes covered with low grass and scattered cultivation, or sandy ground with small bushes; it is never found in forests nor on hills, but it sometimes enters high grass... http://www.birdpoints.com/BustardIndian/BustardIndian.htm Mon, 18 May 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/BustardIndian/BustardIndian.htm Coloration. Upper plumage greyish brown, tinged with rufous on the upper tail-coverts and slightly streaked with blackish on the crown; tail brown margined with pale rufous, the outer web of the outer tail-feather entirely of this colour, the bases of all the feathers tinged reddish; wing-coverts and quills brown margined with pale fulvous, the inner web of all the quills largely pale rufous; lores brown; a ring round the eye and a line above and below the lores fulvous white; ear-coverts greyish brown; chin and throat pale fulvous white, with a few brown spots on the lower throat; remainder of lower plumage fulvous grey, with a few brown streaks on the breast; under wing-coverts and auxiliaries rufous... http://www.birdpoints.com/LarkDesert/LarkDesert.htm Thu, 14 May 2009 11:00:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/LarkDesert/LarkDesert.htm Coloration. Male. Resembles male of P. grisea, but differs in having the forehead broadly white, the whole crown dark chocolate-brown or blackish, and the white of the ear-coverts produced narrowly round the hind neck to form a collar; the black sides of the neck are also produced as a collar over the mantle, immediately behind the white collar... http://www.birdpoints.com/LarkBlack-crownedSparrow/BcSLark.htm Tue, 12 May 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/LarkBlack-crownedSparrow/BcSLark.htm Habits, etc. Those of the family. The nesting does not appear to have been recorded within Indian limits, though there can be no doubt that this bird breeds in the Himalayas. In Europe it breeds about February or March, sometimes on cliffs, more often in trees... http://www.birdpoints.com/VultureCinereous/VultureCinereous.htm Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:40:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/VultureCinereous/VultureCinereous.htm Distribution. A winter visitor to the plains of India, ranging as far east as about the longitude of Mudhupur on the E.I. Railway, where it meets P. superciliosus, and the two are found there together. It extends south to about the latitude of Belgaum. It is found throughout the Himalayas as far as Nepal, but it has not occurred in Sikhim... http://www.birdpoints.com/WarblerHumes/WarblerHumes.htm Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:10:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/WarblerHumes/WarblerHumes.htm This bird has a peculiar habit in the breeding season of rising suddenly into the air and soaring about, often for a considerable distance, uttering a loud note resembling the words chirrup, chirrup, chirrup, repeated all the time the bird is in the air and then suddenly descending slowly into the grass with outspread wings much in the style of Mirafra erythtroptera. These birds are so similar in appearance when flying and hopping about... http://www.birdpoints.com/GrassbirdBristled/GrassbirdBristled.htm Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:30:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/GrassbirdBristled/GrassbirdBristled.htm A new Babbler from Nonggang from Guangxi province of China, aptly named Nonggang Babbler, Stachyris nonggangensis, has been reported by Birdlife International... http://www.birdpoints.com/0Docs/News/BPNews.htm Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/0Docs/News/BPNews.htm Coloration. Whole upper plumage, sides of the head and neck, chin, and throat umber-brown (deepest on the crest) shading off into pale brown on the lower plumage; every feather of the plumage, both upper and lower, the wing-coverts, and tertiaries with a long median white streak, the streaks larger but less defined on the abdomen and under tail-coverts; quills dark brown, the outer webs of the first few primaries hoary... http://www.birdpoints.com/LaughingthrushStriated/LaughingthrushStriated.htm Mon, 5 Jan 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/LaughingthrushStriated/LaughingthrushStriated.htm As the study of local avifaunas is of considerable importance to ornithologists, I purpose to record the birds which I have obtained, or observed, during my residence at Sambhur, extending over a period of three years. My very limited knowledge of ornithology prevents me from attempting to add any information of importance to that science: all that I attempt is to note the birds which I have seen or obtained here, and in a few cases to record something as to their habits and nidification... http://www.birdpoints.com/0Docs/IBA/SambharLake/AdamRM1873.htm Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:30:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/0Docs/IBA/SambharLake/AdamRM1873.htm Why do some bird species lay only one egg in their nest, and others ten? The clutch size of birds is one of the best-studied life-history traits of animals... http://www.birdpoints.com/0Docs/ResearchArticles/BPResearchArticles.htm Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:00:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/0Docs/ResearchArticles/BPResearchArticles.htm Besra identification: Size comparable to Shikra. Broad tail bars, dark and light bars have equal width. Slender legs. Short primary projection, primary tip reaching the third bar. Broad dark gular stripe (all ages). The stripe is missing in Eurasian Sparrowhawk and faint/grey in Shikra. Juvenile only features: Longish supercilium... http://www.birdpoints.com/Besra/Besra.htm Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:50:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/Besra/Besra.htm Coloration. Male. Forehead and the sides of the head and neck rich brown with bright fulvous shaft-streaks; the whole upper plumage and the lesser wing-coverts also rich brown with a fulvous drop on each feather, the drops becoming bars on the rump and upper tail-coverts; each... http://www.birdpoints.com/BabblerScaly-breastedWren/SbWrenBabbler.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:30:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/BabblerScaly-breastedWren/SbWrenBabbler.htm Coloration: Forehead, crown, and nape chestnut; ear-coverts chestnut, each feather blackish near the tip and edged with white; lores, chin, and upper throat black with a chocolate tinge;... The young are at first without the black marks on the throat, breast, and back, but they soon acquire them... http://www.birdpoints.com/GullSlender-billed/SbGull.htm Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:55:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/GullSlender-billed/SbGull.htm Coloration: Forehead, crown, and nape chestnut; ear-coverts chestnut, each feather blackish near the tip and edged with white; lores, chin, and upper throat black with a chocolate tinge;... The young are at first without the black marks on the throat, breast, and back, but they soon acquire them... http://www.birdpoints.com/LaughingthrushChestnut-crowned/CcLaughingthrush.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:43:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/LaughingthrushChestnut-crowned/CcLaughingthrush.htm Chopta lies between Kedarnath and Badrinath, at an edge of Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, to the north central part of Uttaranchal. It's in the Temperate zone where, in winters, most of this area is covered in snow and in the higher reaches the temperature can plummet to -15C. The whole region shows immense biodiversity. http://www.birdpoints.com/0Docs/ChkLists/ChoptaUttaranchal.htm Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/0Docs/ChkLists/ChoptaUttaranchal.htm It nests in holes in bank-sides, under tree-roots, or fallen tree-trunks. The eggs, four in number, are bluish white, very faintly marked towards the larger end with the palest reddish brown. http://www.birdpoints.com/RobinOrange-flankedBush/RobinOfB.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:20:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/RobinOrange-flankedBush/RobinOfB.htm The Mottled Wood-Owl is not at all common, but inhabits the better wooded parts of the Division, especially where groves of ancient mangoe trees exist. http://www.birdpoints.com/OwlMottledWood/OwlMottledWood.htm Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:36:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/OwlMottledWood/OwlMottledWood.htm Interesting remarks by Mr. A. Anderson. He says: • These Ducks, according to my experience, nest almost exclusively on trees • Although the Nuktas (Comb Ducks - Ed) nest by preference in trees, I have known their doing so in holes of old ruined forts; as a general rule, they select localities in close proximity to water • I was present, however, at the capture of a female Nukta on her nest, which yielded the extraordinary number of forty eggs! (Dump nesting: Several females laying eggs in the same nest - Ed) • The boss or fleshy protuberance of the Drake gets greatly enlarged during the breeding-season, frequently measuring 2.2 x 2.4 inches at the the base http://www.birdpoints.com/DuckComb/DuckComb.htm Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:49:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/DuckComb/DuckComb.htm Historical: Nevertheless it has, in my opinion, little title to be considered a Fishing Eagle. It seldom, as a rule, attempts to catch the finny tribe, but acts the part of a pirate in robbing the Osprey, Kites, Marsh Harriers, &c., of their prey, while sportsmen recognize it as the poacher who never loses an opportunity of carrying off a dead or wounded Duck, often from under their very noses. http://www.birdpoints.com/EaglePallassFish/PFEagle.htm Fri, 8 Aug 2008 03:21:00 GMT http://www.birdpoints.com/EaglePallassFish/PFEagle.htm