Summer visitor- home coming!

The advent of spring and summer start seeing these summer visitors, our beautiful winged avian friends. We are so glad to welcome them to their breeding ground. The countryside, forest, creeks, forest edges and wherever they can find a place to be around — that area becomes so lively and musical with their activities such as feeding, singing, or calling mates. The whole area resonates with their beautiful song and calls. And their appearance is so mesmerizing with the vividly and beautiful coloured plumage. Oh, it’s so amazing, that I love and enjoy so much that makes me feel like I am getting healed and in a different world. Try it, it’s just great!

Golden Oriole/Indian Golden Oriole

One of the stunning bird, that usually arrives in late March to early April. Once, subspecies of Eurasian Golden Oriole but now separated as full species- Golden Oriole or Indian Golden Oriole. Once I hear them, usually find them easily in the farmland and forest area.

Chestnut-headed Bee-eater

One of the early arriving bird and can be heard and seen easily. They are mostly green with bright chestnut coloured head and nape area. Enjoy them seeing, catching the bees and wasps and returning to the almost same area.

You can not miss this bird, once you see it. They are dimorphic birds and in Kathmandu or in whole country we get the one that is pure white (male) with crested black head and blue eye ring. And female is rufous with black head and short tail. They are an amazing bird. No water it is called paradise flycatcher.

Blue Throated Blue Flycatcher

Here’s this sparrow size but beautiful coloured bird and has a beautiful song. This is Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher, now here nesting in the bushes of forest or in urban areas. (the picture is not what I could use)

Eurasian/Common Cuckoo

I do not like the world common as we are loosing birds (and other biodiversity) fast due to our own activities. This bird, not so colourful as above birds, but it’s beautiful with a beautiful song cuckoo — cuckoo. They are brood parasite, and lays eggs to other species of birds. They are one of puzzle for scientist to how the newly hatched Cuckoo follows back their parents to their wintering ground. And this is with most of the birds that we still need to know and understand a lot about them!

Asian Koel

This bird could easily be mistaken as one of crow as its pure black but if we look it carefully, it’s easy to make it out. The large bill is greenish and red eye. Female is brownish with white spots or streaks. They are migratory bird but now since few years we are seeing them wintering here too.

These are some of the migratory birds that we see here, among some 40 species of birds that are summer migrants in the country.

As all the birds and biodiversity is facing a huge problem of their survival, every year these birds that breeds here are finding extremely difficult to be back in same area or forest patch as that is taken by human when they are here next time. The fast urbanization is a huge problem as eventually they have to move out or can not survive, and we are losing them, unfortunately.