The black-hooded Oriole is sitting over a date tree. It wants to suck the delicious juice coming out of the tree through the pipe. The date trees are cut in a special way to extract juice ('Khejurer ros' in Bengali) in winter to produce lovely tasty molasses. What I found is that all the birds around there loved this juice. They came one by one and sat over there to quench their thirst.The yellow bird is also known as 'Halde pakhi' or 'Benebou' in Bengal. Locally, people also call it 'Eistikutum' as it makes calls that sound like eis-ti-kutum!
Photo: Abhijit Kar Gupta, Kolkata
Location: Ruppur (a village around 70 km from Kolkata), India.
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