Monday, February 27, 2012

Koel Couple

I captured the Koels in front of my house while the couple feeding on the grains I left for birds on the compound wall. The birds were often sighted near my house... and hiding away in the bushes used to call aloud among the many twittering birds.
Koel couple
Renowned for their sweetest tone, Koel has inspired many poets to pen down; numerous songs and poems enhanced the bird enrich in calls that are distinctively loud, despite being black or gray in color. Echoic in several variant languages, Koel is hardly distinguished from crows on their first sight except peek into its crimson iris is apparently different between male and female – which has white and buff spot on its brown back and represents the hawk in appearance.
Koel couple
Koel’s were ever like lazy and brood parasite to only lay eggs on crows or host nest. Once Very popular in India as cage birds, Koel feeds even on boiled rice; is the state bird of south Indian state Pondicherry.
Koel couple

11 comments:

ashok said...

This is amazing capture Jeevan...I always wished to snap a koel...well done!

Kavi said...

Good captures Jeevan !

George said...

These are wonderful pictures. Thanks for the information about this interesting bird.

Rakesh Vanamali said...

Super pictures, Jeevan. Many thanks for sharing.

Aarti said...

Lovely... i see this couple visit my backyard daily, but not been able to click em together :)

Thendral said...

Cute pictures!

Rahul Bhatia said...

Nice pics:)

Rajesh said...

Wonderful captures. I have not seen Koel with spots earlier.

Jeevan said...

Thank you all for sharing your comments:)

eden said...

Great captures of the birds.

Kalyan said...

Nice seeing this rare bird after a long time.