Pied bushchat (Male): Saxicola caprata

Pied bushchat (Male)
Saxicola caprata

Pied bushchat: Saxicola caprata

Gender: Male

Age: Adult

IUCN Status: Least Concern

Sighted at: Dharampur, Distt. Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Date: 27.6.2015

Commoners are pretty. Yet another reed-top minstrel of tall grass fields.

Key identifying features of this representative as a non-breeding adult are:

1)     Black in colour

2)   White rump and patch on wing

3)   Small passerine bird.

Taxonomy:

Kingdom	-	Animalia
Phylum	-	Chordata
Class	-	Aves
Order	-	Passeriformes
Family	-	Muscicapidae
Genus	-	Saxicola
Species	-	caprata

 Summer Birding 2015 in and around Delhi.

Photographed at Dharampur, Distt. Gurgaon, Haryana, India, on 27^th June, 2015, using a Nikon D7200 camera and Tamron 150-600 mm lens.

 

© Prashant V Tenjarla