The Fire-tufted Barbet is a beautiful emerald-green barbet with silvery cheeks, a white forehead, and a black chinstrap. A small and often difficult to see reddish tuft above the base of the bill gives the bird its name. The bulbous horn-coloured bill has a large dark smudge down the center and it has a strange song which is a loud accelerating creaking that is reminiscent of rusty machinery revving up.

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The Red-headed Trogon (Harpactes erythrocephalus) is a brightly coloured bird of dense evergreen forests, usually seen perched quietly on a mid-story perch. It varies in coloration throughout its range but always follows the same general color scheme with the male with a dark red head & belly, a brown back, and barred black-and-white wings. The female has a brown head and a faded-red belly. Both sexes, when seen from below, have a sharply contrasting and graduated black-and-white tail pattern as can be seen in my photos here. It is a sluggish and shy bird typically stationary and difficult to see. The best way to spot it is to listen for its high-pitched gulping hoots.

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The Indian Wild Ass (Equus hemionus khur), also known as the Indian Onager and called Khur in the local Gujarati language, is a subspecies of the onager native to Southern Asia. It is currently listed as Near Threatened by IUCN with only 6,082 individuals left.

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A striking and distinctive goose I first saw on the Little Rann of Kutch. But this time I was in a boat and in close proximity. The bold black-and-white head and neck pattern is unlike any other goose along with their orange-yellow bill and legs. In flight these geese appear mainly pale gray with a broad black trailing edge to wings. They breed around lakes and marshes on the highland plateaus of Central Asia and winter in the lowland wetlands and fields of South Asia as far as South Peninsular India. They are the world’s highest flying migratory birds flying at an extreme altitude over the Himalayas, where there is less than 10% the oxygen found at sea level. They have found a way to cross the world's longest and highest land mass - over 1,500km [930 miles] - an almost impossible physiological feat relatively easily.

These geese may represent "the limit" of what birds are capable of and they don't train or acclimatise. They could walk on the top of Everest and have no problem at all.

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A striking and distinctive goose like duck with bright ruddy plumage overall and a contrasting pale creamy head and neck. The male has a narrow black neck ring and big white forewing patches striking in flight. Breeds in southeastern Europe and Central Asia, winter in South Asia and often found around saline lakes, reservoirs and agricultural fields.

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Now he paraded forward, now he marched aft. Now he shot up his neck like a periscope and twisted his head first left, then right. He flashed the black petticoat of his under feathers in single- and double-winged salutes. He moonwalked on water, raised a spindled leg balletically, from dégagé position to arabesque. Then honked like indignant geese and rasped like didgeridoos.

For all their public popularity, flamingos turn out to be poorly understood scientifically, and only lately have researchers ventured answers to basic questions like why the birds spend so much time perched on one leg, and contort their heads backward before settling down for the night; how they keep their feathers so “Miami Vice” bright, and select a well-suited mate from the deafening throng.

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The Indian Courser is an elegant and stately large plover-like bird. It has an erect posture, a strong black-and-white brow pattern, an orange-suffused crown and chest, and slightly down curved dark bill. The Indian Courser inhabits dry open spaces, including rocky plains and arid areas with scattered scrubs and gathers in small flocks outside of the breeding season.

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Once again we venture into the grasslands surrounding Kumbhargaon, a nondescript village to the south of Bhigwan, in search of the Spotted Owlets. Surrounding the Ujni backwaters are rich grasslands and fertile farms home to an impressive list of birds, mammals and reptiles. The Spotted Owlet (Athene brama) is a small tropical asian owl breeding from mainland India to Southeast Asia and a common resident of open habitats including farmland and human habitation.

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