ID pls..

[Dr Hari Venkatesh K R]

Sony DSC H10
ISO 125
f8
SS-1/125

[Sagar Patil]

wow.. this is rare angle.

I think this is Tailed Blue Jay.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I love the composition. I did a few tweaking to the image. Slight increase in brightness, levels, and contrast.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice composition. The repost looks good. Liked the angle, the design on the wings is highlighted by that. Thanks for sharing.

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Nice, unusual compo. The eyes have come out well.
Not sure what this is... Will try to find out...

[Bibhav Behera]

Hi Dr Hari,
This is a common Sergeant. The composition is nice.


More about his species from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athyma_perius :
The Common Sergeant (Athyma perius) is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The male is black. It is blackish brown in the female with the following white markings :—Fore wing: a clavate discoidal streak, twice divided, a cone-shaped large spot beyond ; a much curved discal macular band, the spots composing it in interspaces la, 1 and 2 broad, rectangular, in interspace 3 small, subtriangular, in interspace 4 circular or oval, in 5 and 6 elongate, shifted obliquely inwards; a post-discal sinuous line of narrow transverse spots, and a subterminal line of obscure short lunules. Hind wing: discal band of fore wing continued sub-basally across, broad and not macular, traversed only by the veins; a postdiscal macular band, inwardly margined by a series of round black dots, and a subterminal line of obscure lunules as on the fore wing. Underside golden ochraceous yellow; the white markings as on the upperside but heavily margined and defined with black; interspace 1a with sub-basal and pre-apical patches in interspace 1 of fore wing fuliginous black; postdiscal band on hind wing margined inwardly with pale blue, bearing a superposed series of black spots, the pale blue extended along the veins crossing the band ; both fore and hind wing with a prominent terminal narrow black band; the cilia white alternated with brown. Antennae black; head with a spot of golden ochraceous between the eyes; thorax with a band or two of bluish spots anteriorly and posteriorly; abdomen transversely and narrowly barred with bluish white; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen pure white ; in the female the abdomen has a double lateral row of minute black dots.

Distribution

Throughout the Himalayas; the hills of Central, Eastern and Western India : Southern India.; Burma; Tenasserim; extending to Siam and the Malay Peninsula.

[Sagar Patil]

Yeah... mistook as Blue Jay.. Agree with Bibhav.