Silver-breasted Broadbill

Alternative names: Collared Broadbill; Gould's Broadbill; Hodgson's Broadbill; Red-backed Broadbill

Identification

Broad black supercillium, greyish white crown, light blue bill and narrow lemon yellow orbital skin diagnostic. Upper parts greyish brown with chestnut rump; underparts greyish white, wings black with blue patch, tail black with white outer tail feathers. Female (in picture) has a narrow silvery white breast band. Note: claws appear silvery-white too. (check other pictures in Gallery.)
The different subspecies differ in head coloration (eg rufous in lunatus), wing pattern and tone of upper- and underparts.

Habitat

Forest and forest edges.
Occurs usually at 300 - 900m, locally lower or higher.

Behaviour

Feeds primarily on insects.
Frequents the canopy and middle story. Usually solitary or in pairs but may sometimes gather in small parties. Generally unobtrusive, sitting quietly on a high perch. Shy bird.
Breeding season differs through range. The nest is a pendant ball with a long tail made of coarse grass, weeds, thin twigs, fine roots and other vegetable matter. A pair has sometimes helpers. Usually lays 4 - 5 eggs.
A resident species. Some altitudinal migration recorded in the Himalayas.

Silver-breasted Broadbill - Couple

Rare Bird Spotted

 
Two research assistants of the Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh have been to Srimangal area recently and found this rare Silver-breasted Hodgson's Broadbill (Chadibook Motathuti) in Mahadebtila. There were four birds, two male and two female. Experts say that this is the first sighting and photograph of this bird in the wild in Bangladesh. It is a small ashy-grey bird with a short crest, stout bill and chestnut rump and black tail. It inhabits the evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, secondary growths and bamboo forests. It is usually seen in small flocks and feeds on insects. It breeds in March-June. It suspends its nest from thin branches or bamboo twigs overhanging water. Although a bird of South and Southeast Asia, it is a rare resident of Bangladesh. Photo: Samiul Mohsani

Silver-breasted Broadbill - Couple

Silver-breasted Broadbill (Serilophus lunatus)

female (left) and male (right)

Purple Swamphen

Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) is a colourful large bird common in freshwater wetlands of Singapore and Malaysia.
The bird is predominantly vegetarian, eating a wide range of water plants: water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), water spangle (Salvinia molesta), water lily (Nymphaea), lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) and cyperus sedge (Cyperus), among others.
It is an opportunistic feeder and will also take fish, frogs, lizards, snakes, birds, molluscs, leeches, small crabs, insects and their larvae and spiders when available.
In the image by Himel Nahin, the swamphen is seen taking a freshwater snail. Unfortunately, it is not known whether it simply swallowed it or break up the shell first before swallowing.
This post is a cooperative effort between   BESG to bring the study of bird behaviour through photography to a wider audience.

Basic Care

This is a short introduction to the basic care of Zebra Finches. Find out what food they eat and what type of cage to get. There is also a short introduction to breeding.

Housing

Zebra finches can be kept in cages or aviaries, indoors or outdoors. Since zebra finches are very hardy, they are able to tolerate many different environments without any problems. However, you should avoid placing them where it may rain on them. You should also avoid changing the environment too rapidly, since the birds will need to acclimatise to the new environment. Generally, healthy acclimatised zebra finches will feel quite all right with temperatures between 5� Celsius and 30� Celsius. However, when breeding 15� Celsius should be the minimum temperature. (recommended temperatures may vary from region to region depending on humidity, etc.).

Breeding Aviary Considerations

Breeding Pair of Zebra Finches - Photo by Jörg Dickmann

When you want your zebra finches to breed inside finch aviaries, first make sure that your zebra finches have its own pair. An odd combination usually results in the finches fighting for superiority over the others.

Breeding Aviary Nest Materials

Inside finch aviaries, you cannot expect finches to create a nest for their eggs out of nothing, or of their own feathers. They become good nest builders provided there are available resources for them. Placing hay, straw, or dried grass inside the area are helpful in forming the base of their nests. Do not use anything synthetic because the zebra finches might accidentally swallow it.

Proper Weather and Temperature for Breeding Finches

Second, certain environmental conditions in finch aviaries may detrimental to a breeding finch. The temperature in the aviary must be somewhere near 15 degrees Celsius to keep them warm. Also, in extreme weather conditions, always keep the nest, with the eggs, and the finches protected by creating a shed or shaded area for them.

Budgerigar Food, Cage and Care

The budgie (also called a parakeet) is a common house and farmhouse and garden aviary pets. They have various different colors combinations; but, normal budgies have a bright green plumage on their chests, green wings and black lines covering their small yellow heads. Other color variations for budgies are yellow, blue, violet, white, white and blue, green mix albino and unique color mixes made by breeding different colored budgies with each other. However, budgerigar http://budgerigarcare.blogspot.com/ are the basic green and yellow when they are in the wild. they are good companion pets. they can make the home atmosphere live with their chirpy noise and mimic voice. they can gone your tension if you can see their activity play in the cage.

In the wild, budgies live in Australia around woodland or grass areas that are near a source of water. Budgerigars feed mostly on seeds of native herbs and grasses that they find on the ground and do most of their drinking and feeding during the morning time.

Budgerigars or parakeets make excellent pets, although choosing a budgie for a pet can be a difficult task. Price ranges for one of these birds can be from 200 to 500 Rs, so choosing a slightly expensive budgie would be best, because the lower priced budgies are not in the best of health. Trained budgies are the most expensive; however, you should consider buying a medium priced budgie that is in good health and not yet trained, so you will not miss the fun of training it yourself. Budgies will get lonely in an empty home, so if you are a busy person that is out of the house for many hours during the day, you should consider getting two budgies, this way the quiet empty home will not bore the budgie.

Budgerigar as a pet bird at home

Budgerigar is a lovely small bird it's also called parakeet and the smallest and easy to pet cage bird. and they also suitable for home aviary and there are lots of products like budgerigar cage,budgerigar food,books, toys and more accessories and cages in different varieties like stainless steel cage,iron,metal,big,small,large cage. budgerigar is a easy to care pet bird so they are famous as a first pet bird in the bird lover.they are chirping cute and they are like singing. their main Source is in Australia and now a days they are famous as a pet bird in all over the world and they are also available in different colors like white,blue,green,yellow,and white and blue,yellow and green are breeding colors by pet shop and aviculturist. we can also easily breeding budgerigar at our homes in the cage only requrement for their breeding is nest box or mud pot, or breeding box. they likes seeds, cabbage, and green leafts of different vegitables.

Rare Birds.

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The not-so-black bulbul

The trails of Namdapha National Park are treacherous, but they almost always seem to lead to wonderful new discoveries. How can one convey the excitement of a journey like this? The bamboo bridges you cross are rickety and fragile, held together only by cane; and the water you hope you will never fall into is freezing cold. Returning after days of tiring foot-slogging in the temperate forests and rhododendrons high up in the hills, we reached the village of Hazulu, where we were staying at the home of a friend. Along with a few others, I was on a Rufford Foundation funded bird survey for the Nature Conservation Foundation in the high altitudes of the hills to the east of Namdapha National Park in Arunachal Pradesh, near India’s border with Myanmar. And it was in Hazulu that I saw the bird.

Black Bulbuls (Hypsipetes leucocephalus) are one of the commonest and most conspicuous bird species in the Himalaya and the Western Ghats. Birders who have spent time in these areas will be familiar with huge, raucous flocks of these birds flying over the forest canopy and feeding in fruiting trees. With smoky-black heads and bodies, and thin, coral-red bills, these birds are impressively attired, but balance their visual appeal with a range of loud and piercing cries, which some might call ‘cheery’, but are often more capable of inspiring irritation than joy.

India has three subspecies (or races) of Black Bulbuls. None of these races are strictly migratory, but flocks seem to move long distances in search of food, and changes in weather will often result in the almost magical appearance or disappearance of Black Bulbuls. In BR Hills (southern Karnataka), areas silent one day will become cacophonous the next, ringing with the squeals and cries of vast numbers of Black Bulbuls. It is like watching a session of the Lok Sabha in progress.

Asia has ten Black Bulbul races, from Afghanistan in the west to Vietnam in the east¹. Three of these races have white heads (now you know why they’re called leucocephalus!), and breed in south China, migrating in winter to parts of Myanmar, Thailand and to other countries in Southeast Asia. These birds are certainly more handsome than their drabber Indian cousins, with bright white heads contrasting strongly with black bodies and red bills. The Indian subcontinent has only once seen these birds, in March 1995 in Bangladesh².



So imagine our surprise when we found these birds in Arunachal Pradesh! The friend who was hosting us told us first that there were strange black bulbuls with pure white heads around, we were incredulous and a bit dismissive. Juveniles, we said, whose pale grayish upperparts had been exaggerated into white. But the next morning brought a shock. In the persimmon orchards near the village were huge flocks of the ‘normal’ Black Bulbuls – and mixed with them in small numbers were birds with snow-white heads! They were spectacular. Even more so because they mixed freely with the all-black Black Bulbuls, and stood out in an otherwise drab flock. We found these birds once again at another village, again in a persimmon orchard, with other Black Bulbuls.
The resident Lisu people in the area say that these birds have been visiting the area for the past two winters, and have not been seen before. They should know, because Black Bulbuls frequently raid orchards in the area, and the local people know them well as a pest. In the Lisu language, they are known as Chamtakye. What makes these records really interesting is that these birds have been visiting the area for only the last two years. Global warming and changing climate has the potential to change the routes and timings of bird migration, and one could speculate that these sightings are the result of recent climate change in the area.

 Red Munia

The Red Munia, Red Avadavat or Strawberry Finch (Amandava amandava) is a sparrow-sized bird of the Munia family. It is found in the open fields and grasslands of tropical Asia and is popular as a cage bird due to the colourful plumage of the males in their breeding season. It breeds in South Asia during the Monsoon season. The species name of amandava and the common name of avadavat are derived from the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat from where these birds were exported into the pet trade in former times.^[2][3]

Description

This small finch is easily identified by the rounded black tail and the bill that is red in all seasons. The rump is red and the breeding male is red on most of the upper parts except for a black eye-stripe, lower belly and wings. There are white spots on the red body and wing feathers. The non-breeding male is duller but has the red-rump while the female is duller with less of the white spotting on the feathers.^[4][5]

Behaviour and ecology

This finch is usually seen in small flocks,^[16] flying with rapid wingbeats and descending into grass clumps where they are hard to observe. Pairs stay together during the breeding season.^[17] These birds produce a distinctive low single note pseep call that is often given in flight. The song is a series of low notes.^[18] Birds of a flock will preen each other, ruffling their head feathers in invitation.^[19] They feed mainly on grass seeds but will also take insects such as termites when they are available.^[20]
They build a globular nest made of grass blades. The usual clutch is about 5 or 6 white eggs.^[21]

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  Male in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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  In flock in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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  Male & Female at Pocharam lake, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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  Male in Manjira Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Asian Paradise-flycatcher, most beautiful bird of Bangladesh

Asian Paradise-flycatcher is a medium sized crested passerine bird. It’s an uncommon resident and summer visitor of Bangladesh. It usually found in thick forests and other well-wooded habitats of Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi and Sylhet. Local name of the bird is Eshio Shah-bulbuli and also known as Dud-raj. Scientific or Latin name is Terpsiphone paradisi which means a sweet-voice of paradise.

Asian paradise-flycatcher

Asian Paradise-flycatcher occurs in two colors morphs, white and rufous. In the white morph, it looks predominantly white except for its glossy black head, throat, ear-coverts, crest, primaries, secondaries and tetials. In the refous morph, it looks rufous from above and grayish from below. Its head, throat, ear-coverts and crest are black like that in white morph. Its 20cm long, weight is 20g, wing 9cm, bill 2.5cm, tarsus 1.7cm, tail 10cm and the main attraction tail-streamer of male is 35cm. The function of the long tail is assumed to be related to sexual selection, with females choosing males based on the length of the tail.
Globally this is also extends through south, east, near east and south-east Asia, including Maldives, China, Japan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Indochina.
Habits and behavior
The Asian Paradise-flycatcher is a noisy bird with a sharp skreek call. It seen alone or in pairs. It feeds on butterflies, bugs, beetles, dragonflies and other large insects. It has short legs and sits very upright whilst perched prominently. They use a variety of foraging techniques, including hawking from a perch, sallying hovering, gleaning, and flush-pursuiting. They bathe in small pools of water in the afternoon by diving from perches.
Breeding and Nesting
Its breeding season is April-August. The female lays 3-4 pink eggs, 2.0cm x 1.5cm each. Egg incubation time takes 15-16 days. It nests on horizontal forks of thin branches. The nest is a tiny cup of grasses, roots, fibers and leaves bound together with cobweb and plastered on the outside with egg-bags of spiders. Paradise-flycatchers like all monarch flycatchers, are monogamous and are generally territorial, although in some cases birds may nest close together and defend the nests together against predators.
Gallery

Asian Paradise-flycatcher

Kingfisher (Halcyonidae)

Kingfisher (Halcyonidae)

The tree kingfishers or wood kingfishers, family Halcyonidae, are the most numerous of the three families of birds in the kingfisher group, with between 56 and 61 species in around 12 genera, including several species of kookaburras. The family appears to have arisen in Indochina and the Maritime Southeast Asia and then spread to many areas around the world. Tree kingfishers are widespread through Asia and Australasia, but also appear in Africa and the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, utilising a range of habitats from tropical rainforest to open woodlands.

Troupial

Troupial

The Venezuelan Troupial is fairly large in size, with a long tail and a bulky bill. It has a black head and upper breast. The feathers on the front of the neck and upper breast stick outward, making an uneven boundary between the black and the orange of the bird’s lower breast and underside. The rest of the orange color is found on the upper and lower back, separated by the black shoulders. The wings are mostly black except for a white streak that runs the length of the wing when in a closed position.

Purple-rumped Sunbird

Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker

The Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum), is a species of bird in the Dicaeidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Tangarazinho - Pin-tailed Manakin - (Ilicura militaris)

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Tangarazinho - Pin-tailed Manakin - (Ilicura militaris)

Birds..

Doel (Magpie Robin) The Doel or the magpie robin is the national bird of Bangladesh. One of the more familiar birds about towns and villages. Shy, silent and unobtrusive during non-breeding season, then skulking in shrubbery and only uttering plaintive swee-ee and harsh chur-r. Conspicuous during breeding season when male sings lustily from favourite tree-top or post, chiefly early mornings and late afternoons. Song punctuated by upward jerks of white fringed tail. Also very good mimic of other birds' calls. Breeding territories jealously guarded, and intruding males defied with puffing- out, strutting and much show of pugnacity.

Shalik The Shalik (myna) is a very common bird in Bangladesh. The common myna is about the size of an American robin. Its colors range from rich wine-brown on the lower breast to deep black on the head, neck, and upper breast. It has a splash of white on the lower edge of its wings, and its bill and legs are a bright yellow. This myna feeds on plants, insects, and worms. It often builds its nest in crevices of buildings. It is a noisy bird that is common about yards and buildings. It is often seen among chickens or perched on the backs of cattle. People have released the common myna into the wild in many tropical Pacific islands, including Hawaii, where the bird is now abundant. Talking mynas are sometimes kept as pets. Many imitate the human voice and can talk, sing, and whistle.

Kingfisher The Machhhranga or the kingfisher is very common in riverine Bangladesh. Twelve varieties of kingfishers have been recorded here including the brown-winged, white-collard, black-capped and the rare ruddy kingfisher.

Woodpecker The Kaththokra or the woodpecker can be found in twenty two species in the country, especially in the Sundarbans. The red-cockaded woodpecker as seen in the picture is becoming rarer and identified as a vulnerable group, which is a classification just under endangered.

This is a list of the bird species recorded in Bangladesh. The avifauna of Bangladesh includes a total of 466 species, of which 1 has been introduced by humans, and 12 are rare or accidental. 3 species listed are extirpated in Bangladesh and are not included in the species count. 35 species are globally threatened. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families, and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of Clements's 5th edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflects this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Introduced and accidental species are included in the total counts for Bangladesh. The following tags have been used to highlight certain relevant categories. The commonly occurring, native, species do not fall into any of these categories. (A) Accidental A species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Bangladesh. (I) Introduced A species introduced to Bangladesh as a consequence, direct or indirect, of human actions. (Ex) Extirpated A species that no longer occurs in Bangladesh although populations exist elsewhere.