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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

Long Tailed Shrike

Lanius schach 25cm
Neelavaal Keechan in Tamil (நீளவால் கீச்சான்)
Widespread resident. Adult has grey mantle, rufous scapulars and upper back, narrow black forehead, rufous sides to black tail, and small white patch on primaries. Juvenile has (dark barred) rufous brown scapulars, back and rump; dark greater coverts and tertials fringed rufous. Bushes in cultivation, open forest, gardens.

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