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Went on a dedicated mission to locate and understand the behaviour. Popular hotspots of Hanchya and Galigarahundi did not yield any sightings. However saw upto 6 near the fields of “HuraliKyathana Halli”. Observed 4 Individuals singing. Heard 1 other individual singing. Saw a 6th Individual in nesting behaviour. Habitat : Semi-Scrub land with dense pocket “Green Foxtail” Grass bordering the rain water stream. Upland grassy patch on either side. Intermediately human cultivated fields. It appeared that they prefer to roost on the upland grass patches, but move to the human cultivated fields for feeding. Short scrub plants and man-made field fencing is their popular hangout for singing. Habitat also includes sones/pebbles and notably large boutders (4 to 5 feet tall and wide). Visual : A-typical Bushlark that sings multi-note and for long duration for upto a few minutes. Song has drastic changes to pitch and some notes resemble a Grey-Breasted-Prinia while other resembled a sparrow and the rest of the pitch closer to the Indian-Bushlark. Unmistakable in some physical features include a thin-line contrasting deep eye-brow, smaller (weaker) beak than the Jerdon’s-Bushlark and a head structure closer to that of an House Sparrow. My perspective description. Observations : Attaching Audio, Video and Picture (of 4 individuals). Attaching the video of the 5th individual that I believe is the most puzzling observation of this visit. When one individual was singing, came a second individual (after changing distances and hopping closer to the singer). This individual used big boulders tops (see above note on habitat) and kept getting exited when the singing individual raised its volume. It appeared like this individual as trying to demonstrate to the singer sitting right-above, its capacity to carry maximum nesting material in its beak !!!……..I could not clearly infer any gender out of these 2 individuals, nor could I infer any nesting stage beyond just a courtship behaviour. I would also be open to understand more before inferring it as a definitive courtship behaviour. Another observation (after confirming the same species individuals) is the non-uniformity in the paleness/whiteness in the throat area and the density/absence of streaks on the throat. I would never in future ID them with these parameters, against the more definitive head-structure, beak size/shape and the thin-line eyebrow. Having seen so-many individuals at one hotspot (after not seeing any at other neighbouring hotspots) I tend to believe they are colony behaved species (meaning they donot flock, but are loosley spread individuals, however confined to a commutable area/patch). Could this help them be in connection as well as maintain space (for whatever reasons). Making all these field notes to fix/append any of them as I learn more in future from this hotspot. https://youtu.be/vVkhwmO23a4 https://youtu.be/RL-tRG2iJl0 https://youtu.be/yH2sIndaJYs
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- 1.41 MB