Birds of Mount Abu FEBRUARY 2019 mountabubirds.blogspot.com

Birding in the third and Fourth week of February.

20 February 2019.

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata fasciata

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata fasciata

( Winter  Visitor )

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata fasciata

Chestnut-shouldered Petronia Gymnoris xanthocollis - Male

Common Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita

( Winter visitor )

Common Tailorbird - Orthotomus sutorius

Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus   - Female

Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca

( Winter visitor )

Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca

( Winter visitor )

Shaheen Falcon - Falco peregrinus peregrinator

21 February 2019.

Brahminy Myna - Sturnia pagodarum 

Brahminy Myna - Sturnia pagodarum 

22 February 2019.

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata fasciata   - in flight  

Long-Tailed Shrike -  Lanius schach  

Shikra Accipiter badius 

Shikra Accipiter badius 

23 February 2019

Black stork - Ciconia  nigra 

Black stork - Ciconia  nigra 

Black stork - Ciconia  nigra 

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata fasciata 

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata fasciata - In flight 

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata fasciata - In flight 

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata fasciata - In flight 

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata fasciata - In flight 

Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata fasciata - In flight 

Rufous treepie -   Dendrocitta vagabunda 

Shikra Accipiter badius 

Shikra Accipiter badius 

White-spotted Fantail Rhipidura albogularis

White-spotted Fantail Rhipidura albogularis

Will post the rest of the birds taken in the month of Feb. Shortly

Red-throated Flycatcher Birds of Mount Abu JANUARY 2019 mountabubirds.blogspot.com

Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula parva

29 January 2019

Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula parva - male

Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula parva   -  Female

One of our smallest winter visitors, the Taiga or Red-throated flycatcher,

Is seen commonly all over Abu, beside streams, jungle footpaths and open grasslands,

Has a grey-brown face, reddish-orange throat in males, small dark bill, dark eye with slim pale eye-ring.

Has a black tail with white at the basset its outer tail feathers.

Rapidly flicks tail upwards, always sallies through the undergrowth, feeding on flying insects.

Red-throated Flycatcher over the years.

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Eurasian Hobby Birds of Mount Abu October 2018.

Eurasian Hobby

8 October 2018

Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo subbuteo   - In flight from below

A lifer for me, probably the first photographic record of this species here in Mount Abu.

 I recorded this bird for the first time on 8 October 2018 and subsequently followed up.

Eurasian Hobby I had seen and snapped this bird earlier, but the snaps were not too clear due to cloudy conditions. I have records of these birds on 8/10/18,13/10/18,15/10/18,18/10/18 and 20/10/18, Winter visitors. Recorded at Uttarayan Mt Abu in 1992 and orally at Trevor Tank and Sunset Point in the winter of 2001– 2002 (Shantanu Kumar, verbally.) 

Butler (1875) found it “tolerably common at Mount Abu at the end of rains and during cold weather

Eurasian Hobby Recorded during the month of October 2018.

While going through my photographs looking for records of the Sheshan Falcon I ran across this snap and on examining it carefully realized that I had evidently snapped the Hobby earlier and skipped it thinking it was the falcon. So I guess this species is a regular post-monsoon winter visitor.

Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo  - In flight from below

(26 September 2016 at 17:31 pm )