"Birds chirping around you is a beautiful realization that life is incredibly good. Let this sound be a gentle break in your routine."
~ Hiral Nagda

A typical Kerala scene with wetlands, greenery, birds and hills; with a train thrown in as an added bonus. Clicked at one of the spots I regularly go to looking for birds.

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This is the only jacana to have a different breeding and non-breeding plumage. The breeding plumage is marked by the elongated central tail feathers that given the bird its name. The Pheasant-tailed Jacana is a resident breeder in tropical India, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia and it overlaps greatly with the range of the Bronze-winged Jacana.

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This species was earlier considered a subspecies of the Bengal Bush Lark. However recent studies of differences in call and distribution have led to it being treated as a full species. Also similar to the Indian Bushlark but has buffy lores, less white behind ear coverts, darker centre to wing coverts and central tail feathers. Found over most of south-east India. Sat low to get this shot, not too shy a bird.

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"It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one’s sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature."
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Clicked at the Glass Bridge of The Sky Park @ 900.

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Loten's Sunbirds are small, only 12-13 cm long. The long bill separates this from the syntopic Purple Sunbird. The adult male, as seen here, is mainly glossy purple with a grey-brown belly. The bill lengths vary across populations with the longest bills are found on the east of Peninsular India and in Sri Lanka. The name of the bird commemorates Joan Gideon Loten, the Dutch governor to Sri Lanka (Ceylon) who commissioned the artist Pieter Cornelis de Bevere to illustrate the natural history of the region from living and collected specimens.

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