European Roller takes a break in Coimbatore during migration
The Hindu
A European Roller (Coracias garrulus), a passage migrant through the Indian sub-continent, was spotted near Coimbatore recently.Coimbatore-based senior photographer T.R.A. Arunthavaselvan spotted and
A European Roller (Coracias garrulus), a passage migrant through the Indian sub-continent, was spotted near Coimbatore recently.
Coimbatore-based senior photographer T.R.A. Arunthavaselvan spotted and photographed the bird in a farm land on Annur-Mettupalayam road on October 18.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.