Crested Bunting (Male) from Manas NP, December 2022
Canon EOS 7D + Canon 500mm f4
ISO 640, 1/320, f4, full frame
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Type: Posts; User: Samrat Sarkar
Crested Bunting (Male) from Manas NP, December 2022
Canon EOS 7D + Canon 500mm f4
ISO 640, 1/320, f4, full frame
Call of Puff throated Babbler from Manas NP. December 2022. Mobile phone recording.
Many years ago in Mangalajodi.
Canon EOS 7D + Canon 500 f4 + Monopod
ISO 250, 1/1600, f 7.1, Full frame
Yes the male is glued here. The females are bigger than male in Himalayan toad. Thanks for your comment.
Samrat
Saw this mating seen of Himalayan Toad at a village named Tinchuley near Takdah forest in Darjeeling. The mating lasted for three days. The amplexus of Toads are about ten types.
1. Inguinal -...
Observed again after 2017 a very rare courtship behaviour of Orange headed thrush. The nesting material sharing behaviour. Very minimum knowledge we have about this behaviour. Honourable viewer may...
The female put the nesting materials on her nest.
The female took nesting materials from the male.
The male is giving nesting materials to the female.
Couple formation completed on first week of May 2022. Here I observed the male brought nesting materials in his beak to nest and the female who was already there in the nest, was begging for nesting...
There was no courtship feeding observed.
The Female caught a cricket by herself.
Like past year the Female have come here in my village at same place.
20th April, 2022
"Woodpecker feathers are some of the most durable in the bird world; and they need to be as they are rubbed against rough tree bark everyday.... Woodpeckers come in many colours but most have black...
I have been observing this particular female Orange headed thrush since 2017. You may follow their story in this link...
Drumming of female Fulvous breasted woodpecker amidst dense woodland in my village. Recording done by ordinary smart phone while taking a stroll today morning.
There are no bushes of reeds in the Beel anymore. And also, the Beel does no more brims with water during the rainy season. Almost all the channels through which rain water used to pour into the Beel...
These all are the fixed framed moments of the Mangalajodi lake which speak about the success story that the Mangalajodi is during a time when it has become a universal trend to fill up the water...
In some other place a desperate Yellow Bittern has fixed its inquisitive eyes in the muddy grassland of the swamp.
A shy Ruddy-breasted Crake was seen searching for insects inside rotten stalks of hyacinths in the golden mellow light of the setting sun.
Very close to this was seen a migratory Ruff.
As I went on seeing these birds I lost myself completely in a different world. That place really seemed to be a heaven for all of us with the birds, the trees and the plants and all other animals who...
A Glossy Ibis has dipped its head into water in search of food. I had a strange feeling that it “talks” while it is putting its head into the water.
My guide pointed my attention to a Redshank which was walking with its beak dipped into water.
These ‘illiterate’ people can now tell the complicated and long names of all the native and migratory birds in a single breadth. A Black-tailed Godwit is searching for food in the mud with its beak...