"Sparrow, Crow, and Mynas: Understanding the most common Indian Birds in India"
About some Indian birds
We always
watch a lot of animals around us, such as sparrow crow, and we do not know many
things about them. We also tell many tales, stories to our
children about the sparrow, crow but do we really know about them? We don't
know many innovative and amazing things of these birds. So today we will let us
know about some of the daily visible birds.
Sparrow
Here are some interesting facts about
Sparrows
Sparrow is a
bird which s found everywhere and even in many ordinary places. This bird likes
to live with humans. Even you would have observed this bird always build its
nest in house and makes noise throughout the house. Sparrow makes s their nest above the window or
in the shelves or in any corner, their nest will be found in any wonderful
places. Even I have seen the nest in the curtains. We have seen these sparrows
always in many pairs. Their body color is fair; color of the back is mixed
brown and dark brown. The front color is white. Male sparrow has a black spot
on the neck. Female sparrow lays eggs
three at a time or sometimes four eggs. The color of eggs is greenish white.
Understanding Crows Behavior
and Characteristics
Crow is the
bird which is very famous by the tale ‘“thirsty crow”. Jokes apart this is the
bird which is known to everyone and found almost all over the world. This bird
likes to be around the human. There are two types of crows- normal domestic
crow and wild crow.
Domestic
crow is black and neck is grey in color whereas the wild crow is slightly
bigger than domestic crow and completely black in color.
The crow
eats all kind of things but likes the things which human eats. So crow always
found nearby the houses or courtyard throughout the day. Normally, crow spends
the night with his other fellow crows on the tress, but as the sun rises, he
comes back on his previous place.
Crow is very intelligent, clever and cunning
bird. It is the an expert in carrying all kinds of thing then that things may
be food items, shiny jewelry, soap or the food items which housewives keep for
drying in the sun. and when the crow realize the carried thing is not edible crow throws it
away so some people call crow as a thief also.
The crow can
sense if any danger is going to happen. As soon as crow gets doubt about
something it starts to caw and informs others.
Crow build
the nest I tall trees. To prepare the nest the crow uses many branches, fibers,
feathers and sometimes uses small pieces of wire.
Typically the female crow lays between 4-5 eggs
in one clutch. The eggs are pale blue in color. Both the male and female take
care of eggs and also young ones.
Native Myna: A Closer
Look and Characteristics of Native Myna
Native myna
is one more bird which you have seen many times. I know this bird from
childhood. This bird is really closer to my childhood memories. My grandma use
to say that if you see these birds I the pairs it is lucky… and interesting
thing is that whenever I use to see these bird alone I used to looking for
another one. And another thing I would
like to share about this is when we use to see this bird in the pair we used to
say” two for joy”.
So let us
see some more information about this bird
Myna is a
dark brown in color with a white mark on it wings. The color of beak is bright
yellow and there is a circular yellow mark on the eyes.
Myna eat
fruits, grains, insects and kitchen waste. It always eats spittles on the cow
and buffalo. When the farmer plows, myna follows him whatever insects emerges
from the soil Myna jumps on it and relishes it.
Myna builds
its nest in the hollow trunk of a tress or wall of the old buildings. Or any
corners of buildings or houses Myna finds to build a nest. Myna’s nest is made
of roots, paper, fibers, threads and cotton. Myna lays 4-5 eggs at a time. Both
male and female birds incubate eggs and also take care of young ones.
One amazing fact about Myna is that if at all
Myna be nourished from childhood it can speak as if repeating our words.
It makes its
nest in the hollow trunk of a tree or a wall of the old building. Its nest is made of roots, paper,
fibers and cotton. Female
Myna lays four or five blue eggs at a time, both male and female incubate eggs and
also take care of children. Myna is sometimes caught in childhood and she is nourished, Myna can
speak as if repeating our words.
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