ML295925161
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Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1; Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
Observation details
It was almost an year we were searching for a lesser coucal, when harish told that he saw lesser coucal yesterday, i decided to explore today with him to see the bird, we reached around 7.55 am almost half an hour before harish saw yesterday, i thought it will be very difficult to spot him/her was scanning around, the male ( later discovered) was perched on top of a plant of strychnine tree about 2 m height, it sat there for almost 20 minutes, cleaning itself amd sitting ideally, after almost 25 minutes it started calling, after two three calls a female came and male displace himself from his perch and given his perch to the female and he perched on top of another branch of the same plant. They sat for a while, then male shifted himself to the side of the female. Female started vibrating its tail two three times, male suddenly shifted its postion to the top of the female and made love. And he offered a grasshopper to the female and be on top for a while and flew off. One of the rarest moments ever witnessed. Our search came to a fruitful end. Photographed also videographed.
Technical information
- Camera
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 36.09 MB