Black-rumped Flameback (Dinopium benghalense), aka Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker, is a striking and medium-sized woodpecker species widely distributed in the Indian subcontinent. Here’s a detailed overview of its description, habitat, behavior, ecology, and taxonomy:
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Great Hornbill is found in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. Its range extends from the Indian states of northeast India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh, through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and into the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Brown Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus) is a medium-sized gull species found primarily in Asia. Here’s a description of the Brown-headed Gull.
The Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus), also called the Common peafowl or Blue Peafowl, is a type of peafowl that lives on the Indian subcontinent. Peacocks birds are the males, while peahens are the females. They are peafowl when they are all together. A peacock, which is also called a peafowl, is any of three beautiful birds in the Phasianidae family. The male is called a peacock, and the female is called a peahen. Both of these birds are called peafowl. The bluer, or Indian Peacock, which lives in India and Sri Lanka, and the green, or Javanese, peacock, which lives from Myanmar to Java, are the two most easily recognizable types of peafowl. The Congo peacock, or Afropavo congensis, was discovered in 1936. It lives in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Asian openbill stork (Anastomus oscitans) is a large wading bird in stork family Ciconiidae, found mainly in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Green Bee Eater is now three different kinds of birds. These are the Asian green bee-eater, African green bee-eater, and Arabian green bee-eater.
Black Drongo Birds, small passerines, breed in tropical southern Asia from southwest Iran east through India, Sri Lanka, southern China, and Indonesia.
Kingfisher bird also known as White throated Kingfisher are widely distributed in Asia from Turkey east through the Indian subcontinent to the Philippines.
Purple sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) is a small sunbird. Like other sunbirds they feed mainly on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young
Purple-rumped Sunbird, or Leptocoma zeylonica, or Moutusi Bird in Bengali, is a type of sunbird that is only found in the Indian Subcontinent.
Woodpecker birds belong to the family Picidae, which includes over 200 species worldwide. There are members of this family all over the world, with the exception of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. These species are known to live in forests or woodland habitats.
Psilopogon haemacephalus, a Coppersmith Barbet bird with a crimson forehead and throat, is recognized for its rhythmic call, which resembles a coppersmith hammering metal.