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Coorg Birds
Coorg – a district in Karnataka, is known for its abundant birdlife. A part of the Western Ghats, it is a biodiversity hot spot and has an abundance of bird and wildlife. Coorg coffee plantations and lush green forests play host to a variety of rare, exotic, native and endangered species of flora and fauna. The canopy of tall green trees and plants provide the best shelter and food for these beautiful birds and animals and this makes Coorg a heaven for birds, bird watchers and Ornithologists.
Inida has over 1250 species of birds, and Coorg alone homes around 25% of the overall bird population. Nagarahole National Park, Anekad Reserve Forests are among the best places to find the exotic birds of Coorg. Some birds which are found in Coorg like the “Fairy Bluebird’, Malabar Trogon, Nilgiri Laughing-thrush, Whistling-thrush ,Black Naped Monarch , Painted Spurfowl etc. are a fairly common sight in Coorg.
If you were a convoy of industrious insects going about your lawful business in the leafy channels of Coorg, you’d do well to keep a lookout. For, flying the Jolly Roger in these parts, are roving bands of the Oriental White-eye, avian pirates that descend on the unwary and decamp with their lives. In the […]
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Oriental White-eye, Coorg | Posted in Birds, Coorg | No Comments »
Imagine you’re out on a leisurely walk in Coorg and suddenly you hear the melodious strain of a flute wafting out of the woods. You wonder if it is some local minstrel, wandering, like a wood sprite, in the trees, or a modern day Krishna invisibly serenading his Gopikas… or if there is some precocious […]
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Indian Golden Oriole, Coorg | Posted in Birds, Coorg | 10 Comments »
This is a tale about visual design in the natural world, and masterpieces created using proprietary Adobe technology. If you’re wide-eyed already, just hold your horses. This ‘Dreamweaver’ isn’t the popular web development tool, but a tech-savvy bird in Coorg, that goes by the name of Baya. The Baya Weaver is a master craftsman who […]
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Baya Weaver, Coorg | Posted in Birds, Coorg | 7 Comments »
Our songs have always immortalised the ‘Lady in Red’, but in the animal kingdom, it’s the Lad in Red who never goes to an empty bed. Nowhere is it more true than in the hills and dales of Coorg, where a little male bird has captured a disproportionate share of female attention. It’s said that […]
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Red Avadavat, Coorg | Posted in Birds, Coorg | 7 Comments »
When you see someone dressed in a flamboyant waistcoat of crimson-pink, wearing brilliant blue eyeliner to match with the blue lipstick on their bill, you know there’s a party somewhere in the jungle, and this is a gregarious regular on the Page 3 circuit. So you hop across to say “Hello”, and this handsome hunk […]
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Malabar Trogon, Coorg | Posted in Birds, Coorg | 6 Comments »
In a land where a lot of the natives trace their ancestry to the Macedonian armies of Alexander the Great, there exists one bashful prince whose very name bespeaks roots in an Emerald Isle much closer to home. The Sri Lankan Frogmouth, so called because of his wide, gaping mouth that resembles a frog’s, is […]
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Sri Lankan Frogmouth, Coorg | Posted in Birds, Coorg | 6 Comments »
Psychedelic yellowish-green outfits. Black bordered yellow face paint with black stripes. A crimson sash on the throat and forehead, teamed with red stockings. Scraggly, unkempt whiskers that haven’t seen a barber for ages! The hero of this piece is the quintessential rock star, down to the manic jerking of his head to his own beat. […]
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Coppersmith Barbet, Coorg | Posted in Birds, Coorg | 8 Comments »
For some it has always been a miracle; an act of faith. For others, it has merely been an act of science, albeit awe-inspiring. For centuries, this vision of someone actually treading water has become commonplace in Coorg, yet familiarity hasn’t bred contempt. Those who’ve watched it a thousand times will still stop and wonder […]
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Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Coorg | Posted in Birds, Coorg | 12 Comments »
We’ve all known those perennially unsatisfied people who complain about everything, reminding us of the saying, ‘the grass is always greener on the other side’. In Coorg however, the saying takes on quite a literal perspective. Here, in the mystic hills, lives a bird that has given rise to many legends – the Greater Coucal, […]
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Greater Coucal, Coorg | Posted in Birds, Coorg | 1 Comment »
If some of our male readers had the chance to become someone else and live that person’s life, we wouldn’t be surprised if they chose to bypass obvious culprits like ‘the world’s richest man’, and instead chose an Arab sheikh or emir with a harem of wives at his beck and call. Now if we […]
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Bronze-winged Jacana, Coorg | Posted in Birds, Coorg | 10 Comments »
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