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Suka
nivas
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Suka
nivas |
The
parakeet enclosure has been named 'Suka-nivas' after the Maharshi
'Suka' who has been mentioned in the Bhagavatham as having
the head of a parrot. He is depicted as a great musician and
astrologer. Legend has it that Maharshi Suka fixed the 'muhoortham'
(auspicious time) and played an important role in Lord Venkateswara's
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Grey junglefowl
Scientific name : Gallus
soneratti
The males have darkish-grey plumage with white feather-shafts.
The blackish crown and neck have white and yellowshaft-streaks
and spots. The waxy sickleshaped arching tail is distinctive.The
female is brownish overall with white underbody and bold markings
on breast.
Food:
seeds, tubers, crop shoots, insects, bamboo and karvi seeds.
Voice: Loud kuk...kuk...kura...kuk
of the male is distinctive and rather noisy during breeding
season.
Range:
The entire Indian peninsula and south-India. south of central
Madhya pradesh, East Maharashtra and north west Andhra Pradesh,
its range coinciding with the teak country.
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Grey
jungle fowl |
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Roseringed
parakeet
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Roseringed
parakeet
Scientific name : Psittacula
krameri
The male has grass-green plumage and short hooked, red beak.
The rosy-pink and black collar is distinctive. While the female
has pale emerald-green around the neck.
Food
: fruits,
crops and cereal.
Voice: shrill keeak....screams.
Range:
All of India.
Habitat:
Light
forest, orchards, towns and villages.
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Blossomheaded parakeet
Scientific name : Psittacula
cyanocephala
The male has yellowish-green plumage. Plum-redhead , a black
and bluish-green collar, a maroon-red wing-shoulder patch and
distinctive white tips to the central tail feathers. The female
has dull grey head, yellow collar and almost nonexistent shoulder
patch.
Food:
fruits, grains, flower nectar and petals.
Voice:
loud,
interrogative tooi...tooi.
Range:
All India south of Himalayan foothills.
Habitat:
forest, orchards and cultivation in forests.
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Blossom
headed parakeet |
Slaty
headed parakeet
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Slaty headed parakeet:
Scientific name : Pistlacula
himalayana
Both sexes alike but female lacks red on shoulders.The male
has grass-green plumage, deep-blue-green hindneck collar and
a red shoulder-patch. The tail is long, pointed and yellow-tipped.
Food:
fruits,acorns
and maize.
Voice:
high-pitched ;pleasant tooi.... tooi call mostly heard in flight.
Range:
confined to north India and migrating to south in winters.
Habitat:
forest, mountainsides, orchards and hillside cultivation.
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Indian Baya
Scientific name : Placeus
phillippinus
The male has a bright yellow crown, dark brown from above and
streaked yellow, with dark-brown car coverts, throat and yellow
breast.
The female is buffy-yellow above,streaked darker, streaked on
sides and throat turning buffy-yellow on breast and streaked
on sides.
Food:
Grainseeds,insects
and nectar.
Voice
: chirping
and high-pitched wheezy notes.
Ranges
: Most
of India from about 1000 meters in outer Himalaya and evidently
absent in Kashmir.
Habitat
: open
country and tree and palm-dotted cultivation.
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Indian
Baya |
Indian
Spotted Munia |
Indian spotted munia
Scientific name : Lonchura
punctulata
Both sexes are alike choco-brown above with olivish-yellow pointed
tail. It has white bars on rump with chestnut sides of face,
chin and throat. They have white below and thickly speckled
with very dark brown on breast, flanks and part of belly.
Food:
seeds,
small berries and also insects.
Voice:
A double noted ki.tee....ki.tee.
Range
: Most
of India and absent in much of Punjab, north west regions and
west Rajasthan.
Habitat:
open scrub, cultivation interspersed with trees and also gardens.
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