Thursday, 9 February 2012

Birds from a balcony

As I steal a few minutes of erratic internet time on the Kolkata balcony of my good friend Sujan Chatterjee, the birds of Bengal fly by to greet me and a lady on the balcony opposite does puja, thanking the gods for another beautiful Bengali morning.



Birds

127
jungle myna
Acridotheres fuscus
128
oriental magpie robin
Copsychus saularis
129
rufous treepie
Dendrocitta vagabunda
130
red-vented bulbul
Pyconotus caffer
131
spotted dove
Streptopelia chinensis
132
house (little) swift
Apus (affinis) nipalensis
133
(little) green bee-eater
Merops orientalis
134
purple sunbird
Cinnyris asiaticus

2012 Totals
Mammals: 10
Birds: 134
Reptiles: 0
Amphibians: 0
Fish: 0

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