Puff Throated Babbler/Ganeshgudi

[Praveen Siddannavar]

From Ganeshgudi...

Camera Model Canon EOS 7D, 500mm
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/250
Av( Aperture Value ) 7.1
ISO 3200
Focal length 500mm
Cropped
Monopod:

[Tushar Dixit]

Nice cpature, Praveen! Wish a little head turn towards you. This is one of the beautiful songsters of our jungles.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice pose and details on the head and body. Good capture.
TFS
Roopak

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice eye contact. Seems it just had a bath :). Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Pellorneum ruficeps

Wish you had some better light and higher shutter speed. There are some sharpening artifacts visible.

I started reading the details about this bird and the variations mentioned is amazing. Sharing some information from Birds of South Asia, The Ripley Guide by Pamela C. Rasmussen and John C. Anderton

ID: A rather small, large-headed babbler with fairly long narrow tail; plain brown above with rufous crown, broad pale supercilium, and white below with bold dark streaks on breast and flanks. Male larger and streaks on breast average heavier than in female. Juvenile initially lacks head and breast markings and has rufous-brown breast-band; in first contour plumage more rufescent above than adult, with brighter buffy breast and flanks, and in Himalayan group lacks black speckling in forehead and striping on hind neck and upper mantle.

Variation: marked. Ranges from palest and less heavily streaked below in W Himalayas and drier parts of Peninsular India to darkest and most heavily streaked below in W Ghats and extreme E India. In Himalayas and NE, bill thicker, with darker ear-coverts, black speckles on forecrown, pale-edged dark streaks on side of neck and upper mantle, and blacker streaks below with buffier breast and flanks than in Peninsular races. In himalayas west of Nepal, punctatum is paler and more greyish-olive above, with dull, pale rufous-brown crown, paler, browner streaks on upper mantle; and weaker streaks below than the more rufous-toned, heavily streaked mandellii from Nepal to W Arunachal; in E Arunachal, pectorale said to have darker rufous-chestnut crown, darker brown upperparts, richer buff underparts, and more prominent black on mantle than mandellii.

In Margherita area, extreme E Assam, ripleyi said to have richer rufous upperparts than mandellii and chamelum, paler than for pectorale; and from Garo Hills to Nagaland and SE Bangladesh, chamelum has paler rufous crown and paler, greyer upperparts than mandellii, but darker than punctatum.

In Manipur Valley, vocale has obsolete pale stripes on hindneck and upper mantle, darker chestnut crown, and much darker, warmer brown upperparts than chamelum. In Kerala, granti (=olvaceum) is darker avove and on ear-coverts than nominate from rest of W Ghats, with more extensive, larger and darker streaking below. In NE Ghats, pallidum has much paler rufous crown and more olive upperparts than nominate. In Madhya and north of Bombay, intermediate between nominate and pallidum; further study needed over entire Peninsular range.