While eating lunch today at one of my favourite cafés, I noticed that a pair of tailorbirds were sewing their nest together in a potted fiddle-leaf fig right in front of my eyes — what an unexpected treat! 🤩
Below, a different tailorbird on another tree from some moons ago.
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Hello little friend 👋🏼
On last weekend’s trip to Okhla Bird Sanctuary, I was busy looking out at the Yamuna for migratory water birds when I noticed the song of this Common Tailorbird https://ebird.org/species/comtai1?siteLanguage=en_IN
A common warblerlike bird with a green back, a reddish crown, and a long bill. It gets its name from the way in which it builds its nest by stitching leaves together. A ubiquitous inhabitant of parks, gardens, and wooded areas across South and Southeast Asia. Its loud “tuui-tuui…” and “whee-whee…” calls are often part of the sound of daily life in human habitation. Co-occurs with the very similar Dark-necked Tailorbird in NE India and SE Asia, but is separable by call, and by the lack of a rufous hind-crown, and yellow vent.
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