Birding Updates
Update 1: According to Dr. Salim Ali (1941 ), the food of the black necked stork is frogs, reptiles, crabs, etc. But, on the pleasant evening of 16th February 2001. Dr. Farah lshtiaq. Mr. Khalid, Mr. K.K. Mishra, Mr. D. Devarishi and I saw a blacknecked stork feeding on a purple moorhen, by plunging it into the water, with the help of its bill. To my mind, perhaps the stork was trying to pluck off the feathers from the body of its prey. This unusual incident took place at about 5.1 O p.m. in Keoladev Ghana National Park, Bharatpur. Update 2 : Ali. S. and Futehally, L (1968) have mentioned that the food of the cattle egret is chiefly grasshoppers, blue-bottle flies, cicadas and other insects; also frogs, lizards, fishes, figs and so on. But, on the cloudy & wet dusk of 17th July, 2001, around 6.00 p.m. I sighted a cattle egret with a dead rat in its bill, passing over my house at Moh-Maharaj near, Lakhimpur Kheri, towards its roost. Update 3: On the foggy forenoon of ...