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Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
Sales Professional with great love for nature, collecting various birds on my camera, fighting for conservation of nature. My wife,Gaythri Devi also sharing similar interests and also being a better photographer, you can find us on Sundays in some jungle!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Common Stonechat

Saxicola torquata 17cm
Pudharchittu in Tamil (புதர்சிட்டு)
Resident and winter visitor. Male has black head, white patch on neck, orange breast and whitish rump (features obscured in fresh plumage); lacks white in tail. Female has streaked upperparts and orange on breast and rump. Tail darker than in female. White tailed. Summers in open country with bushes, including high altitude semi desert; winters in scrub, reedbeds and cultivation.

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