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🔭🧐 Common Name- common picture wing or variegated flutterer. (A dragonfly).
✳️Scientific Name- Rhyothemis variegata
✳️Habitat- Marshes, ponds and crop fields.
✳️Conservation status- LC (Least Concern).

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🔴Identifying features👇
🔸Medium-sized dark bodied dragonfly.
🔸Colorful wings tinted with pale yellow.
🔸Few black spots on the apices and nodes of the fore-wings.
🔸The apical ends of the wings are transparent; rest marked with golden-yellow and black.

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🔭🧐Common Name- Red Wattled Lapwing/Asian lapwing/Large plover.
📸 at- Mothijhil park, Murshidabad.
✳️Scientific Name- Vanellus indicus.
✳️Local Names- Hottiti(Bengali)
✳️Habit & habitat- ground birds, incapable of perching.
✳️Conservation status- LC(Least concern).
✳️ Size- About 35 cm (14 in) long.

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🔴Identifying features👇
🔸Black breast and throat.
🔸Red bill with a black tip.
🔸Red wattles in front of the eyes.
🔸A white patch that runs down the cheeks to the underparts
🔸In flight,black flight feathers are contrasting with the white wing patch.

🔭🧐Common Name- RED NAPED IBIS.
📸 at- Pench National park M.P.
✳️Scientific Name- Pseudibis papillosa.
✳️Local Names- Indian black ibis or Kalo dochora(Bengali name)
✳️Habitat- Mainly Wetlands.
✳️Feeding habits- Omnivorous, feeding on carrion, insects, frogs, and other small vertebrates as well as grain.
✳️Conservation status- LC(Least concern).
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🔴Identifying features👇
🔸Nearly all dark body.
🔸A white patch on the shoulder.
🔸A patch of crimson red warty skin on the crown and nape.
🔸Long legs and a long downcurved bill.
🔸The wing feathers and tail are black with blue-green gloss while the neck and body are brown and without gloss.

🔭🧐Common Name- Greater Racket Tailed Drongo
✳️Scientific Name- Dicrurus paradiseus
✳️Local Names- Bhimraj (Bengali)
✳️Habitat- Forest & Woodland.
✳️Feeding habits- Omnivore, Mainly Insectivore sometimes eat fruits & nectar.
✳️Conservation status- Least Concern
✳️Size and Weight- 30-35 cm & 70-130 gm.

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🔴Identifying features👇
🔸 Comparatively large, Black.
🔸Long notched tail with racket like tail streamers.
🔸Backwardly curved crest.
🔸Glossy bluish black neck.
🔸 Juveniles without rackets and duller.

🔭🧐Common Name- Indian Paradise Flycatcher.

✳️Scientific Name- Terpsiphone paradisi.
✳️Local Names-Dudhraj, Sah-Bulbul.
✳️Habitat- Deciduous and evergreen forest.
✳️Feeding habits- Insectivore; beetles,moths, butterflies etc.
✳️Conservation status- Least Concern.
✳️Size - Around 20 cm long.
✳️Weight - 15-20 gms.

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🔴Identifying features👇
🔸 Milky white apperance.(Females & young males are Rufous)
🔸Head, face, crown, crest and nape are glossy black.
🔸Adult males have two long central tail feathers.
🔸Bill, Irises are black.
🔸Males with blue eye ring & females with black.
🔸call - 'chie..chie..chie' like sound

Colour-Full-Sun-Set..

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BASKING at Dusk.. heron..Pond heron.. Little Cormorant..
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🔭🧐Common Name- Indian Roller.

✳️Scientific Name- Coracias bengalensis.
✳️Common name - Blue Jay.
✳️Habitat- Mainly around wetlands, mudflats, marshes and often in open Woodland.
✳️Feeding habits- Small insects, reptiles,birds, sometimes mammals.
✳️Conservation status- LC(Least Concern)
✳️Size - 30 cms approx.
✳️Weight- 160 gms.

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🔴Identifying features👇
👉 Different shades of blue and sky-blue on wing and belly, mostly visible during flight.
👉 Longitudinal white streaks on the throat and breast.
👉 Greyish brown dominates from throat to belly.
👉 Dark blue on crown and vent.

🔭🧐Common Name- White throated Kingfisher.

✳️Scientific Name- Halcyon smyrnensis
✳️Local Names- White breasted Kingfisher.
✳️Habitat- Mainly around wetlands,often far away too.
✳️Feeding habits- Generalist, Carnivore; including fishes, crabs, rodents, insects, small amphibians, reptiles.
✳️Conservation status- Least Concern.
✳️Size - around 25-30 cm.
✳️ Weight - 65 to 85 gm.

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🔴Identifying features👇
🔸Bright blue back, wings and tail.
🔸Chestnut coloured head, shoulders, flanks and lower belly.
🔸White throat and breast.
🔸Bright red large bill and legs.
🔸Juveniles are dull in colour.
🔸Call is a chuckling chake-ake-ake-ake-ake.

✳️Common Name - Common Kingfisher / Eurasian Kingfisher/ River kingfisher.
✳️Scientific Name- Alcedo atthis
✳️Local Names- Chhoto Machhranga (Bangla)
✳️Habitat- Mainly found around wetlands.
✳️Feeding habits- Carnivore; small fishes, insects, molluscs, Larvae.
✳️Conservation status- Least Concern.
✳️Size - Around 15 cm long, wingspan - 25 cm.
✳️ Weight - Around 35 grams.

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🔴 Identifying features 👇
🔸Greenish blue upperparts.
🔸Pale sky-blue on back and the rump.
🔸Rufous patches on bill base and ear region.
🔸Whitish patch on throat and the nape.
🔸Greenish blue on neck strip.
🔸Rufous breast, abdomen and rest of the underparts.
🔸Calls sharp whistle and repeated "chee" sound.