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Black-rumped Flameback

The Black-rumped Flameback, also known as the Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker or Lesser Goldenback, is a woodpecker found widely distributed in the Indian Subcontinent. It is one of the fewwoodpeckers that are seen in urban areas. Wikipedia 

Scientific name: Dinopium benghalense

The Indian Roller (Coracias benghalensis), also called the Blue Jay in former times is amember of the roller  family of   birds. They are found mainly in the Indian Subcontinent, but alsoin a wider arc stretching from Iraq to Thailand and are best known for the aerobatic displays of 

the male during the breeding season. They are very commonly seen perched along roadside trees

and wires and are commonly seen in open grassland and scrub forest habitats. It is not migratory, 

 but undertakes some seasonal movements. Several states in India have chosen it as their symbol.

The Greater Racket-tailed Drongo is a medium-sized Asian bird which is distinctive in having elongated

outer tail feathers with webbing restricted to the tips. They are placed along with other drongos in thefamily Dicruridae. Wikipedia 

The Malabar Pied Hornbill ( Anthracoceros coronatus) also known as lesser Pied Hornbill, is ahornbill.

[2] Hornbills are a family of tropical near-passerine  birds found in the Old World. 

The Malabar Pied Hornbill is a common resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India 

and Sri Lanka east to Borneo. Its habitat is evergreen and moist deciduous forests, often near human settlements.

During incubation, the female lays two or three white eggs in a tree hole, which is blocked off 

with a cement made of mud, droppings and fruit pulp. There is only one narrow aperture, just bigenough for the male to transfer food to the mother and the chicks.

When the chicks have grown too large for the mother to fit in the nest with them, the mother 

 breaks out and rebuilds the wall, after which both parents feed the chicks.

The Malabar Pied Hornbill is a large hornbill, at 65 cm in length. It has mainly black plumage

apart from its white belly, throat patch, tail sides and trailing edge to the wings. The bill is

yellow with a large, mainly black casque. Females have white orbital skin which is not there incase of Males. Juveniles don't have the casque.

This species is omnivorous, taking fruits, small mammals, birds, small reptiles, insects etc. Prey

is killed and swallowed whole. Figs form an important part of their diet and contribute to 60% of their diet from May to February, the non-breeding season and during breeding (March to April)

up to 75% of the fruits delivered at the nest were figs. They also feed on other fruits including

those of the Strychnos nux-vomica that are known to be toxic to many vertebrates.[ 

Little Green Bee-eater 

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The Green Bee-eater is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family. It is resident but prone to seasonalmovements and is found widely distributed across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and The Gambia

The Hoopoe is a colourful bird that is found across Afro-Eurasia, notable for its distinctive 'crown' of 

feathers. It is the only extant species in the family

The Purple Heron is a wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, breeding in Africa, central and southern

Europe, and southern and eastern Asia. It builds a nest made of sticks.

[EDIT] Diet

It feeds in shallow water, catching fish, frogs or insects on its long, sharp bill. It will often

wait motionless for prey, or slowly stalk its victim.

[EDIT] Flight

Its flight is slow and in flight it retracts its neck. This is a characteristic of herons and

bitterns; it differentiates them from storks, cranes and spoonbills, which extend their necks.

[EDIT] Vocalisation

The call is a loud croaking krek .

The Indian Pond Heron or Paddybird ( Ardeola grayii) is a small heron. It is of  Old World 

origins, breeding in southern Iran and east to India, Burma, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. They are

widespread and common but can be easily missed when they stalk prey at the edge of smallwater-bodies or even when they roost close to human habitations. They are however distinctive

when they take off with bright white wings flashing in contrast to the cryptic streaked olive and

 brown colours of the body. Their camouflage is so excellent that they will close approach beforetaking to flight, a behaviour which has resulted in folk names and beliefs that the birds are short-

sighted or blind.[2][3]

 

The Shikra ( Accipiter badius) is a small  bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found widely

distributed in Asia and Africa where it is also called the Little Banded Goshawk . The African

forms may represent a separate species but have usually been considered as subspecies of theShikra. The Shikra is very similar in appearance to other sparrowhawk species including the

Chinese Goshawk  and Eurasian Sparrowhawk . They have a sharp two note call and have the

typical flap and glide flight. Their calls are imitated by drongos and the Common Hawk-Cuckoo 

resembles it in plumage.

Shaggy, dusty, and unkempt, the reclusive sloth bear makes its home in the forests of South Asia.

Emitting noisy grunts and snorts, it wanders alone, usually at night, in search of insects and freshfruit.

Sloth bears feed predominantly on termites and ants and employ a well-evolved method to dig

them out. Their long, curved claws are used for penetrating nest mounds, which can be rock-

hard. Once they’ve opened a hole, they blow away excess dirt then noisily suck out the insects

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through a gap in their front teeth. To do so, they close their nostrils and use their lips like a

vacuum nozzle.

Beyond insects, sloth bears feast on a variety of fruit and flowers, including mango, fig, and

ebony. They are also known to scale the occasional tree to knock down a bee honeycomb, which

they will then enjoy on the ground below. It is this habit that’s given rise to their nickname,honey bears.

Sloth bears are solitary creatures and generally nocturnal. They grow up to 6 feet (1.8 meters) inlength, and males can weigh up to 310 pounds (140 kilograms), while females weigh up to 210

 pounds (95 kilograms). When threatened they respond by standing on their hind legs and

displaying their formidable foreclaws.

They wear an extremely shaggy black coat and a cream-colored snout, and their chest is usually

marked with a whitish “V” or “Y” design 

The key features of Black-Winged Stilt are, it has very long, thin, bright pink-red legs; long, finebill; white body; dark back, greenish-black in male and brown in female and juvenile; black

wings. Their habit is, it walks in stately manner on very long legs through shallow water.

They nests a mat of aquatic vegetation on ground or floating in water; lays 3 to 6 eggs;incubation period is 22 to 26 days; young fledge after 28 to 32 days. Black-Winged Stilt sounds

like shrill “kik -kik-kik” call. It diets includes, aquatic invertebrates, insects and also some seeds.

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Parakeets are just one species of 

parrot.

The primary difference between parrots and parakeets is that the term parrot refers to abroad order of birds, while the term parakeet refers to a species within the parrot order.

 Parrot may also refer to a few species of parrot within the broader order. While there arevarieties of parakeet, there are fewer differences between varieties of parakeet thanbetween species of parrot.

Hares are generally larger, and have longer hind legs and longer ears than rabbits. When haresare born, they have a full coat of fur and their eyes are open. Their mothers either drop them onthe bare ground at birth or into a slight depression in the ground. A young hare is called a leveret.

Rabbits, on the other hand, are more compact. Their young, called bunnies, are born hairless and blind. The mother rabbit lines a nest with grass, bark and soft stems. Over this, she places a layer 

of hair that she plucks from her own body. When she leaves the nest, she covers the bunnies with

more hair and dead plants to keep them warm and hidden from enemies.

Rabbits and hares both molt and then grow new hair. This happens in both the spring and in the

fall. Rabbits' brown summer fur is replaced with fur that is greyer. Hares, especially those livingin cold, snowy regions, turn white in the winter.

Rabbits and hares are more active during the dark hours from dawn to dusk. Rabbits hide ineither burrows or depressions in the ground during daylight hours. They try to keep hidden.

Hares hide among plants and usually try to escape enemies by running.

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Sambar are nocturnal or  crepuscular . The males live alone for much of the year, and the females

live in small herds of up to sixteen individuals. Indeed, in some areas, the average herd consists

of only three or four individuals, typically consisting of an adult female, her most recent young,and perhaps a subordinate, immature female. This is an unusual pattern for deer, which more

commonly live in larger groups. They often congregate near water, and are good swimmers.[5]

 

Like most deer, sambar are generally quiet, although all adults can scream or make short, high- pitched sounds when alarmed. However, they more commonly communicate by scent marking and foot stamping.

Stags will wallow and dig their antlers in urine soaked soil and then rub against tree trunks.[7][11]

 

Sambars are capable of remarkable bipedalism for a deer species and stags will stand and mark 

tree branches above them with their antlers.[11]

 A stag will also mark himself by spraying urine 

directly in his own face with a highly mobile penis.[7]

 Despite their lack of antlers, female sambar will readily defend their young from most predators, something that is relatively unusual among

deer. When confronted by pack-hunting dholes or domestic dogs, a sambar will lower its head

with an erect mane and lash at the dogs. Sambars prefer to attack predators in shallow water.

Several sambars may form a defensive formation, touching rumps and vocalising loudly at thedogs.[7]

 When sensing danger a sambar will stamp its feet and make a ringing call known as

"pooking" or "belling".