Beautiful Blue Throat

Happy Sunday to everyone, my apology for not posting a blog on last week, due to some hectic schedule for coming one the week the schedule will hamper but rest assured you will get surprised very soon, so keep following the space.

Today I am going back to the bird world, the bird I have picked up today is not very well known to the public at large, so I thought let me bring this bird to limelight with help of our blog space. So without taking more time let us meet the beautiful Blue Throat bird. 

MAGICAL BLUE

Magical color because it's color shades on the throat is attractive in the true sense, the combination of limited color make this bird even more beautiful and valuable for photographers. Now let us learn more details of this lovely bird.

The Bluethroat is a striking, beautiful species of bird whose main focal point is its clear, bright-blue bib, which is underscored by two stripes; one rust-colored, the other black

As is typical among birds, it is male Blue throats that display more extravagant plumage than their female counterparts, whose throats do not feature this blue patch

Upperparts on both males and females are grey, while the underparts are white. And, both birds have a habit of fanning their tails, exposing a chestnut-colored patch near the tip of the tail

Apart from color details now it’s time to know more colorful I mean cool facts of this unique bird

COOL Facts

The bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered as an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It and similar small European species are often called chats 

It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in wet birch wood or bushy swamp in Europe and Asia with a foothold in western Alaska. In India, you can find this bird at Keoladeo National Park situated at Bharatpur

The main diet of the bird is mostly insects, the other things include beetles, caterpillars, ants, sawfly larvae, crane flies and other flies, and others. Also eats spiders, plus some snails and earthworms. It may also eat berries and a few seeds, perhaps mainly in fall 

It is easy to see only while it is singing or performing flight displays. The colorful throat patch of males is prominently shown off in aggressive encounters between rivals, as well as in courtship

Do plan a visit to Bharatpur bird sanctuary to notice such jewels we have, with this note ending the blog here, do visit DSLR section to see the beauty of this bird

Learning of the day

State Bird of Arunachal Pradesh

Great hornbill –

The great hornbill (Buceros bicornis) also known as the concave-casqued hornbill, great Indian hornbill or great pied hornbill, is one of the larger members of the hornbill family. 

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