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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

Painted Spurfowl

Galloperdix lunulata 32cm
Varna Sundaankozhi in Tamil (வர்ண சுண்டான்கோழி)
Resident. Dark bill and legs/feet. Male has greenish black head and neck barred with white, chestnut-red upperparts and yellowish buff underparts with spotting and barring. Female is dark brown, with chestnut supercilium and forehead, and buff throat and malar stripe; lacks red orbital skin. Thorn scrub and bamboo thickets.

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