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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!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Baya Weaver


Ploceus philippinus 15cm
Thookkanankuruvi in Tamil
(தூக்கனாங்குருவி)
Widespread resident. Breeding male has yellow crown, dark brown ear-coverts and throat, unstreaked yellow breast, and yellow on mantle and scapulars. Female/non breeding birds usually have unstreaked buff to pale yellowish underparts; can show streaking as prominent as on some poorly marked streaked, but generally has less distinct and buffish supercilium, lacks yellow neck patch, lacks pronounced dark moustachial  and malar stripes. Head pattern of some can, however, be rather similar to streaked. Cultivation and grassland.

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