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Common Kestrel

Collared Pratincole

Scientific name: Glareola pratincola
Habitat: Desert,Fields
Passage Migrant

Distinctive, highly aerial wader, resembling terns in graceful fast flight, long pointed wings, deeply forked tail and short bill. Usually in loose flocks chasing winged insects. On ground, plover-like with quick tripping actions on rather short legs, often with upright stance, head held high. Adult has creamy buff throat bordered black; tail and wing-tips are equal; in flight, uniform dark olive-brown above (slightly darker flight-feathers) with narrow, but distinctly while trailing edge to secondaries, contrastingly, white rump and belly; underwing-coverts reddish brown, but often look shadowy black. Black-winged Pratincole (which see) has generally darker upperparts. lacks white trailing edge to wings, and has black underwing-coverts. Adult non-breeding and juvenile lack distinct black throat line, and juvenile brown feathers have pale tips and fringes; outer tail-feathers are shorter than in adult.

Peninsular rock agama

Red avadavat

Clouded Yellow butterfly

Egyptian nightjar

Yellow spotted Agama

Indian Peafowl

Indian/Karnataka

The male, or peacock, is predominantly blue with a fan-like crest of spatula-tipped wire-like feathers and is best known for the long train made up of elongated upper-tail covert feathers which bear colourful eyespots. These stiff feathers are raised into a fan and quivered in a display during courtship. Despite the length and size of these covert feathers, peacocks are still capable of flight. Peahens lack the train, and have a greenish lower neck and duller brown plumage. The Indian peafowl lives mainly on the ground in open forest or on land under cultivation where they forage for berries, grains but also prey on snakes, lizards, and small rodents. Their loud calls make them easy to detect, and in forest areas often indicate the presence of a predator such as a tiger. They forage on the ground in small groups and usually try to escape on foot through undergrowth and avoid flying, though they fly into tall trees to roost.

The bird is celebrated in Hindu and Greek mythology and is the national bird of India. The Indian peafowl is listed as of Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Little Owl 🦉
Scientific name:-Athene noctua
Qatar/mekaines

This owl is a member of the typical or true owl family, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl, the other grouping being the barn owls, Tytonidae. It is a small, cryptically coloured, mainly nocturnal species and is found in a range of habitats including farmland, woodland fringes, steppes and semi-deserts. It feeds on insects, earthworms, other invertebrates and small vertebrates. Males hold territories which they defend against intruders. This owl is a cavity nester and a clutch of about four eggs is laid in spring. The female does the incubation and the male brings food to the nest, first for the female and later for the newly hatched young. As the chicks grow, both parents hunt and bring them food, and the chicks leave the nest at about seven weeks of age.