Brown Rock Chat

Sylvester Alphonso

The brown rock chat is mainly found in northern and central India, it is often found in old buildings and rocky areas. It resembles the female Indian robin but lacks the reddish vent. In flight it resembles thrushes it is mainly captured on ground and mainly feeds on insects.When feeding on ground sometimes flicks its wings and tail. This bird has a repertoire of calls nearly eight different calls have been noted, including territorial calls, begging calls , feeding calls, threat calls, contact calls, distress calls, roosting calls and emergency calls. The breeding season is from spring to summer, the nest is a cup of grass, clutch is of four pale blue eggs incubated by female . the young leave the nest after two weeks.

Dawn Migration

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