Baga and Arpora area - II
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Pied Bushchat Saxicola caprata, female (left) and male (right)
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Cinnamon Bittern Ixobrychus cinnamomeous female (left) and male (right)
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Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis, female (left) and male (right).
The more colourful female lives a polyandrous lifestyle and will mate with any male in sight. Tut tut!
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White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
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Siberian Stonechat Saxicola torquata
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White-browed Bulbul Pycnonotus luteolus
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Red-wattled Lapwing
Vanellus indicus
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Yellow-wattled Lapwing
Vanellus malabaricus
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Purple-rumped Sunbird Nectarinia zeylonica, female
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Purple-rumped Sunbird Nectarinia zeylonica, male
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Common Woodshrike Tephrodornis pondicerianus
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Spotted Owlet Athene brama
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Brahminy Starling Sturnus pagodarum
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The fields and woods at Baga and Arpora hold a good range of birds.....
