Lucky The Bharadwaj

 

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I will not give more “Gyan” on COVID because many social media experts are doing this job 😜 So let us focus on our expert job, which helps generate positive energy. Though traveling is still a challenge, old trips are helping me to provide you unique topics regularly. 

While searching today's topic, the picture of this bird made my job easy and immediately I decided to publish details of this lovely creature. Let us meet this not so handsome but lucky bird in the next section. 

Down the memory lane

Before we get into the facts let me take you to memory lane, the time when I was a kid in this field and was completely unaware about birds. In one of my early forest visits, I saw this bird and shouted “Crow with brown color” this was my innocence at that time, the beauty of nature is that such lack of knowledge is acknowledged as innocent 😝😝 Later on, I understood that this is not a crow but this is a “Crow Pheasant.” 

With every trip when I started getting into depth, I learned that the bird is associated with some superstitions and beliefs. One of the superstitions connected with wildlife is that the bird is very lucky; Tiger sighting is assured if you sight this bird in the forest. Therefore, this means when you visit the forest you should look for Crow Pheasant and not a tiger because this bird will bring the tiger luck anyways. Just kidding, never believe in any such superstition just visit the forest and enjoy every bit of it without bothering about the specific sighting, trust me it will be more rewarding. So with this thought let us move to see some wonderful facts about this bird.

Fantastic facts

This bird is popularly known as Greater Coucal, Crow pheasant, or Coucal

Bharadwaj Bird is an amazing terrestrial bird, which resembles a mixture of crow and a pheasant. The scientific name of this species is Centropus sinensis. It belongs to the family Cuculidae but it comes under the order Cuculiformes

Though the name is Crow Pheasant they does not belong to the crow family, they belong to the Cuckoo family (Cuculidae) but they are not a part of brood parasite species. (Brood Parasite means the birds who lay eggs in the nests of other birds Cuckoo i.e. Koyal is known for this) 

They are large, crow-like with a long tail and coppery brown wings and found in a wide range of habitats from jungle to cultivation and urban gardens. One of the most captivating features of this bird is its bright blood-red eyes 

Before their breeding season between June and September, the courtship display of these monogamous birds involves the male trying to woo a female by chasing after her on the ground and bringing her gifts of food. If she accepts, with a droop of wings, they bond and go into the nesting process

Bharadwaj Bird is one of the members of the genus Centropus. The genus has nearly 30 species of birds from the cuckoo family. This species has divided into several subspecies and some of them were separated as individual species

Some subspecies of Bharadwaj Bird are - Race parroti, Race intermedius, Race bubutus, Race anonymous, and Race kangeangensis

The large bird Bharadwaj mostly eats a wide variety of insects, caterpillars, and small vertebrates. Along with this occasion, they also eat bird eggs, nestlings, fruits, and seeds

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