Red Spur Fowl

Dear followers, I hope you are safe and taking the utmost care for staying away from COVD-19 infection. Information on social media is flooding like anything and hence it becomes very difficult for us to decide on what to believe and what is to be ignored. In this situation, the best thing is to stay at home, take the utmost care with hygiene, follow the instructions of the Government, and keep in touch with your doctor, don't take any chance with health and don't do any adventure to take your health at risk. 

Stay away from villages/forest for a while

The only advice I will give is please don’t plan any visit to any forest or villages until we get clearance that control over COVD is completely taken care of. As you know that compared to the city the facilities are not available in small places and it becomes challenging the cure if it spread over such places. My humble request is to keep a distance from villages and forests so as they are safe from this pandemic virus.    

Some people will have a view that it affects their earning but let me tell you that earning will have a temporary impact but with health, it will have a long-term impact, which will not only eat ways earnings but will hamper their savings as well. So let villages and forests stay away from this virus spread, once the situation improves we can surely restart things as normal. 

The topic of the day

Now, let me start with today’s topic, it is Red Spur Fowl. A very simple and commonly found bird because of which it is ignored as well. Let me tell you my own experience with spurfowl, in my trips I too ignored them initially assuming it like routine Hen, “Kombdi” 😂😂 but then realize that both are different and then started paying attention to it. 

Trust me it is a beautiful bird with dark colors, which can offer lovely pictures. Thankfully I got Red Spurfowl very near to my home (City birding), I found this sweet bird at Green Valley Park, Belapur, New Mumbai. You just need to keep observing the places around you it will offer you something unique. So now, let’s meet Spurfowl in the next section. 

Fact sheet 

The red spurfowl (Galloperdix Spadicea) is a member of *the pheasant family and is endemic to India. It is a bird of forests and is quite secretive despite its size. The legs of both males and females have one or two spurs, which give them their name

 *The Phasianidae are a family of heavy, ground-living birds, which includes pheasants, partridges, jungle fowl, chickens, turkeys, Old World quail, and peafowl

It is a bird of dry and moist forests as well as well-wooded villages. They are slightly smaller than a domestic chicken, but longer bodied and reddish in color. Females have more barring on the upperparts than males

Males have a distinctive, rapidly repeated “k-r-r-r-Kwek, KR-KR-Kwek, KR-KR-Kwek” call, often delivered in the mornings and evenings

Forages in the undergrowth and is generally secretive but often seen crossing roads or walking down paths in pairs or small groups

They feed on fallen seeds, berries, mollusks, and insects apart from swallowing grit to aid digestion

I hope you liked the content, I request you all to utilize this home lockdown time in reading and observing various nature pictures, go through various topics of our blog so as you can understand the perspective of nature and wildlife and benefits of its conservation

The Real Learning

The real learning is that we find out positive from this negative atmosphere and implement the same once things normalize for our better future. 

This is a time where you have a lot to think about what we lost and what we can do to gain. Every small effort from each one of us will help to conserve and gain what we have destroyed in the past

While ending the blog once again I want to request, please stay at home and take care of your loved ones at home, we hardly get time to stay at home even though it is forceful but you can optimally utilize it. 

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