SALEM , APRIL
03, 2019 23:50 IST
UPDATED: APRIL
03, 2019 23:50 IST
A rare
bird from the Himalayas, Tickell’s Thrush that belongs to Thrush family
Turdiadae, was recorded for the first time in the district here recently.
R.
Venkatraman, a birder, spotted and photographed the bird while it was foraging
among the leaf litter. He said that while waiting to photograph Emerald Dove,
he saw a babbler-like bird foraging on the ground and initially overlooked it
as a Puff-throated Babbler. On getting a closer look, the bird looked
different.
“Before I
could click a picture, it went into the darker thickets,” he said and added
that after patiently waiting for one-and-a-half hours in the same place, the
bird came out and he took the picture.
S.V.
Ganeshwar of Salem Ornithological Foundation said that Tickell’s Thrush is
named after Col. Samuel Richard Tickell, a British ornithologist, who worked in
India and Burma. The birds migrate from Himalayas to peninsular India during
winter season.
As per
eBird database, there were only nine previous records of Tickell’s Thrush in
Tamil Nadu and none from Salem. The sighting in Yercaud is the first for the
district as well as the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu, he added.
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