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01. White-Throated Kingfisher
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02. White-throated Kingfisher - ssp fusca
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White-throated Kingfisher
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01	Also Known as White-breasted Kingfisher
02	Is a tree kingfisher
03	Widely distributed in Eurasia from Bulgaria, Turkey, West Asia east through the Indian Subcontinent to the Philippines.
04	Is a resident, some populations may make short distance movements.
05	It can often be found well away from water
06	It feeds on small reptiles, amphibians, crabs, small rodents and even birds.
07	This is a large kingfisher, 28 cm in length.
08	The adult has a bright blue back, wings and tail.
09	Its head, shoulders, flanks and lower belly are chestnut, and the throat and breast are white.
10	The large bill and legs are bright red.
11	The flight is rapid and direct, the short rounded wings whirring.
12	In flight, large white patches are visible on the blue and black wings.
13	Sexes are similar, but juveniles are a duller version of the adult.
14	fusca (Found in above image) is found in India, Sri Lanka, South China, Taiwan, Sumatra and West Java. Population from Burma to the Greater Sundas were treated under the name perpulchra but are now lumped into fusca.
15	The call of this kingfisher is a chuckling chake-ake-ake-ake-ake.
16	They are particularly noisy in the breeding season.
17	It perches conspicuously on wires or other exposed perches within its territory.
18	This species mainly hunts large crustaceans, insects, earthworms, rodents, snakes, fish and frogs.
19	Predation of small birds such as the Oriental White-eye, chick of a Red-wattled Lapwing, sparrows and munias have been reported.
20	The young are fed mostly on invertebrates.
21	In captivity, it has been noted that it rarely drinks water although bathing regularly.
22	It begins breeding at the onset of the Monsoons.
23	Males perch on prominent high posts in their territory and call in the early morning.
24	The tail may be flicked now and in its courtship display the wings are stiffly flicked open for a second or two exposing the white wing mirrors.
25	They also raise their bill high and display the white throat and front.
26	The female in invitation makes a rapid and prolonged kit-kit-kit... call.
27	The nest is a tunnel (50 cms long, in an earth bank.
28	The nest building begins with both birds flying into a suitable mud wall until an indentation is made where they can find a perch hold.
29	They subsequently perch and continue digging the nest with their bills.
30	A single clutch of 4-7 round white eggs is typical.
31	The eggs take 20–22 days to hatch while the chicks fledge in 19 days.
32	With a powerful bill and rapid flight, they have few predators when healthy.

03. Bronze Winged Jacana
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Bronze-winged Jacana
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01	Huge feet and claws enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes.
02	Breeds in India and southeast Asia.
03	It is sedentary apart from seasonal dispersion.
04	It lays four black-marked brown eggs in a floating nest.
05	The males, take responsibility for incubation.
06	These are conspicuous and unmistakable birds.
07	They are 29 cm (11 in) long, but the females are larger than the males.
08	They are mainly black, although the inner wings are very dark brown and the tail is red.
09	There is a striking white eyestripe.
10	The yellow bill extends up as a red coot-like head shield, and the legs and very long toes are grey.
11	Young birds have brown upperparts.
12	Their underparts are white, with a buff foreneck.
13	The Bronze-winged Jacana's feeds on insects and other invertebrates picked from the floating vegetation or the water's surface.
14	Call is a wheezy piping seek-seek-seek given mostly in alarm.
15	When forced they sometimes choose to hide by submerging themselves.
16	The male may carry chicks between the wings and body.
17	Measurements Length 280–310 mm, Wing 150–197 mm
18	Bronze Winged Jacanas are polyandrous,
19	The females are larger and more brightly colored than their male counterparts.
20	The females compete with each other for harems of males to incubate their clutches of eggs.
21	Each female’s territory encompasses one to four males and their individual territories.
22	Before laying the clutch, the female would spend more time with the specific male that would receive the clutch (called the “receiver”).
23	Receivers have been observed to destroy clutches in which they only had a low share of the paternity.

04. Blyth's Reed Warbler
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05. Blyth's Reed Warbler
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Blyth's Reed Warbler
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01	Breeds in temperate Asia and easternmost Europe.
02	Migratory, wintering in India and Sri Lanka.
03	Is one of the most common winter warblers in those countries.
04	Is a rare vagrant to western Europe.
05	Small passerine bird, found in scrub or clearings, often near water, but it is not found in marshes.
06	4-6 eggs are laid in a nest in a bush.
07	Medium-sized warbler, 12.5-14 cm in length.
08	The adult has a plain brown back and pale underparts.
09	It can easily be confused with Reed Warbler, Marsh Warbler
10	It is most like Reed Warbler but is greyer on the back, the forehead is less flattened and the bill is less strong and pointed.
11	The sexes are identical, but young birds are yellower below.
12	This species choose trees or bushes as songposts.
13	Blyth's Reed Warbler is insectivorous, but will take other small food items, including berries.
14	In the breeding season, the best identification feature is the song, which is slow and repetitive, with much mimicry of other birds, punctuated with scales and typically acrocephaline whistles.
15	This bird is named after the British zoologist Edward Blyth.

06. Little Greb
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07. Indian Silverbill
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08. Black Shouldered Kite
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08. Common Sandpiper
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09. Bronze Winged Jacana (Juvenile)
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10. Bronze Winged Jacana (Adult)
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11. Little Greb - Juvenile
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Glossy Ibis
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01	This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean region of the Americas.
02	This species is migratory; most European birds winter in Africa, and in North America birds from north of the Carolinas winter farther south.
03	Birds from other populations may disperse widely outside the breeding season.
04	While generally declining in Europe it has recently established a breeding colony in Southern Spain, and there appears to be a growing trend for the Spanish birds to winter in Britain and Ireland, with at least 22 records in 2010.
05	Undertake dispersal movements after breeding and are very nomadic.
06	The more northerly populations are fully migratory and travel on a broad front, for example across the Sahara Desert.
07	Populations in temperate regions breed during the local spring, while tropical populations nest to coincide with the rainy season.
08	Nesting is often in mixed species colonies.
09	When not nesting flocks of over 100 individuals may occur on migration, and during the winter or dry seasons the species is usually found foraging in small flocks.
10	Glossy Ibis often roosts communally at night in large flocks, with other species, occasionally in trees which can be some distance from wetland feeding areas.
11	Glossy Ibis feed in very shallow water and nest in freshwater or brackish wetlands with tall dense stands of emergent vegetation such as reeds, papyrus or rushes) and low trees or bushes.
12	They found at marshes of lakes and rivers, lagoons, flood plains, wet meadows, swamps, reservoirs, sewage ponds, paddies and irrigated farmland.
13	Roost in large trees which may distant from the feeding areas.
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15	The nests are usually a platform of twigs and vegetation positioned at least 1m above water, sometimes up to 7 m in tall, dense stands of emergent vegetation, low trees or bushes.
16	Prey includes adult and larval insects such as aquatic beetles, dragonflies, damselflies, grasshoppers, crickets, flies and caddisflies, leeches, molluscs (e.g. snails and mussels), crustaceans (e.g. crabs and crayfish) and occasionally fish, amphibians, lizards, small snakes and nestling birds.
17	It is 48–66 cm (19–26 in) long, averaging around 59.4 cm (23.4 in), each wing measures 24.8–30.6 cm (9.8–12.0 in),
18	The body mass of this ibis can range from 485 to 970 g
19	Breeding adults have reddish brown bodies and shiny bottle green wings.
20	Non breeders and juveniles have duller bodies.
21	This species has a brownish bill, dark facial skin bordered above and below in blue gray (non breeding) to cobalt blue (breeding), and red brown legs.
22	Unlike herons, ibises fly with necks outstretched, their flight being graceful and often in V formation.
23	Sounds made by this rather quiet ibis include a variety of croaks and grunts, including a hoarse grrrr made when breeding.
24	Glossy Ibises are threatened by wetland habitat degradation and loss through drainage, increased salinity, groundwater extraction and invasion by exotic plants.

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