D K Pattanayak
@dkpattanayak
Thunder and lightning or sunshine, life is a fabulous journey. My heroes: The Buddha, Socrates, Plato, Epictetus, Plotinus, Thoreau, Vivekananda & Solzhenitsyn.
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25-04-2011 05:49:20
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Here is one more pair from last #birding trip. These bird's common name refers to its colour which resembles lead.
Pics-Plumbeous water redstart ♂️ & ♀️
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The Oriental Pratincole. Summer visitors here for breedibg and seen near the wetland and fields and seen in good nos mostly.
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Andaman cuckoo-dove.
Common yet hidden in deep forest.
Hope I have advertised the island enough… are u not entertained!!
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Summer special: Oriental Magpie-Robin (Copsychus saularis) male having a splash in my garden. A splash in summer is worth many in the winter! 😀
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Lining up something? 😀: Himalayan Black Bulbul (Hypsipetes leucocephalus) by the roadside from #chopta #uttarakhand #india .
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The river Lapwing, near threatened as per the IUCN. Got this during my trip to Rajaji.
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Indian Skimmer (Breeding Season, nice to see them at Saryu) Ayodhya, April 24
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#wildlifephotography Avibase (Denis Lepage)
Andaman Drongo.
Lifer from the Andaman trip. Endemic to the archipelago.
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Scarlet Minivet, a small but very colorful and cute bird. Both male & female are extremely beautiful. I was lucky to get both of them together.
Pics-Scarlet minivet ♂️&♀️
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A special jamun tree (Syzygium cumini) in a city park in #Bhubaneswar #odisha #india . The trunk has numerous pock marks made by woodpeckers for sap. Shot with #Nikon 8-15 fisheye lens.
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The Bay backed shrike. (Lanius vittatus). It likes to impale the prey on a thorn and rips them to eat further may be the reason its on a barbed wire.
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Last 4 lifers from Andaman birding tour coming up.
Ornate Sunbird.
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A special jamun tree (Syzygium cumini) in a city park in #Bhubaneswar #odisha #india . The trunk has numerous pock marks made by woodpeckers for sap. Shot with #Nikon 8-15 fisheye lens.
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Tickell's thrush (Turdus unicolor) is a passerine bird in the thrush family. The name commemorates the British ornithologist Samuel Tickell.
Pics- Tickell's thrush ♂️ &♀️
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As i dont have new butterfly pic, sharing these tiny beauties looking identical as of flying butterflies. A pair of cotton pygmy goose for #TitliTuesday hope this is not unfair #IndiAves #birdwatching #BirdTwitter #ThePhotoHour #NatgeoIndia
Blue-throated blue flycatcher
Blues on a Tuesday too🤪
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Portrait of a Gray Bushchat (Saxicola ferreus) male between chats, in #mandal #uttarakhand #india . Photographed in early morning light.
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