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Bird VarietiesMazhar AliLatest ArticlesDiversification of Birds Topic Update Topic update with some new sites you might be interested in viewing! Pairs, small parties, or larger feeding flocks keeping to lofty trees, or seen sailing majestically across wooded valleys. A striking bright dark-and-light blue bird with biggish clumsy head and crow-like bill. Dense shady hill-streams in evergreen or heavy bamboo forest. Perches on low herbage overhanging water, bobbing its head and switching up the stumpy tail from time to time. A medium-sized cinnamon-colored kingfisher with a white rump-patch, diagnostic in flight, and bright red bill and feet. Shy and difficult to observe thus little specifically known. Keeps singly perched on low bushes overhanging a rapid forest stream, plunges on quary swimming past. Flies along a few metres above water, bill pointing downward, scanning below for fish near the surface. Best known for its spectacular mode of hunting. A brilliantly colourful rather sluggish forest bird. A large blackish brown swift with long narrow pionted, bow-shaped wings and short tail. Underwing uniform blackish. Resident and partially migratory submontane tracts, foothills and locally up to 200 m : shady wooded nullahs in Sal and moist-deciduous forest. |
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