Drongo

The Drongo is sitting over the open field that is being prepared for cultivation. It is waiting for the worms to come out beneath the earth as that is being filled with water. You can see plenty of them in the villages, around the open fields and in the cities they are often found to be sitting on the overhead electric wires.


Photo: Abhijit Kar Gupta, Kolkata
Location: Ruppur, a village around 70 km fromKolkata.

The Rooster

The rooster, we know him all! The Royal guard is at the side wall of a cowshed :) The wall is made of jute sticks (this is very common in the villages in Bengal). 

Photo: Abhijit Kar Gupta, Kolkata

Location: Ruppur (a village around 70 km from Kolkata)

Blue throated Barbet -I ('Basanta Bauri' in Bengali)

Blue throated Barbet - locally, we call this colourful bird as  'Basanta Bauri'. This bird loves to eat fruits and insects. It was sucking delicious juice coming out of the date tree through the tube fitted on this on which it is sitting. 
(Earlier entry of this bird here was more colourful. This was taken in the late afternoon in low light.)


Photo: Abhijit Kar Gupta, Kolkata
Location: Ruppur (a village around 70 km from Kolkata)

Doyel (Oriental Magpie Robin)

The Doyel (this is a male) is sitting over a tube well near a cultivated land of vegetables in our village where we had a recent trip. I think the bird is aiming to eat worms and insects from the field. This long tail bird sings loudly!
Doyel is very familiar bird. We see them in cities and as well as in villages. 
Do you know this is the national bird of Bangladesh?

Photo: Abhijit Kar Gupta, Kolkata
Location: Ruppur (a village around 70 km from Kolkata)

Black-hooded Oriole

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.

Shrike (koshai)

This is a long tailed Shrike bird. Among the shrikes, it is one of the most common in rural Bengal. This bird loves to eat insects and worms in the open field in the villages. It is also called 'butcher' bird because of its food habit. Locally it is called 'Koshai'.

Now this bird is sitting over a fine net which is used to cover the green peas plantation. I found this in my village 'Ruppur' (Dist. Nadia, West Bengal, India).

Photo: Abhijit Kar Gupta, Kolkata

Blue Throated Barbet

This beautiful bird was calling continuously and hopping from one tree to another in the hot sun. This we spotted at our village home at Ruppur in Nadia district, West Bengal.

These barbet birds eat fruits and insects.

Photo: Abhijit Kar Gupta, Kolkata

For more details:

http://www.honoluluzoo.org/blue-throated_barbet.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-throated_Barbet