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Jungle Babbler
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| Photo Information |
| Copyright: Koushik Das (koushikdas) (54) |
| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-12-27 |
| Categories: Birds |
| Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC H10 |
| Exposure: f/4.4, 1/100 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2009-01-21 0:47 |
| Viewed: 576 |
| Points: 4 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
The Jungle Babbler (Turdoides striata) is an Old World babbler. The Old World babblers are a large family of Old World passerine birds characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in southeast Asia.
The Jungle Babbler is a resident breeding bird in India and Pakistan. In the past, the Orange-billed Babbler, Turdoides rufescens, of Sri Lanka was considered to be a race of this babbler, but is now normally given full species status.
The Jungle Babbler's habitat is forest and cultivation. This species, like most babblers, is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight.
It is quite common in Indian forests It builds its nest in a tree, concealed in dense masses of foliage. The normal clutch is two to six deep greenish blue eggs.
These birds are grey brown below, with some mottling on the throat and breast. The upperparts are a slightly darker shade. The head is grey, and the bill is yellow. The race somervillei of Maharastra has an orange tail and dark primary flight feathers.
The Jungle Babbler lives in flocks of seven to ten or more. It is a noisy bird, and the presence of a flock may generally be known at some distance by the harsh mewing calls, continual chattering, squeaking and chirping produced by its members. It feeds mainly on insects, but also eats nectar and berries.
Courtesy: wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Babbler) |
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Pretty good picture of these noisy birds that are always in a group, Koushik. We also call them 'Seven Sisters' in India.
While preparing the note, especially from sources like Wiki, make sure you edit it before the final draft. For example, when you copied the info, you inadvertently copied the caption of a demo picture on the sight:"At Roorkee.......etc". You could have deleted it from the final draft.
Mind you, this advice in goodwill.
All the best.
Ram
Dear Kaushik,
Stunning photograph with an excellent composition & details of these unique birds. TFS.
Regards-Subhash
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