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Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Ashy Wood-pigeon

The Ashy Wood-pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, and Thailand.Its natural habitat is temperate forests.












Scientific Name:   Columba pulchricollis  ( Blyth, 1846)                         

Arctic Tern

The Arctic Tern  is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America (as far south as Brittany and Massachusetts). The species is strongly migratory, seeing two summers each year as it migrates from its northern breeding grounds along a winding route to the oceans around Antarctica and back, a round trip of about 70,900 km (c. 44,300 miles) each year.




Scientific Name:  Sterna paradisaea (Pontoppidan, 1763)

Alexandrine Parakeet

The Alexandrine Parakeet or Alexandrian Parrot is a member of the psittaciformes order and of the psittacines family. The species is named after Alexander the Great, who is credited with the exporting of numerous specimens of this bird from Punjab into various European and Mediterranean countries and regions, where they were considered prized possessions for the nobles and royalty.



Scientific Name: Psittacula eupatria  (Linnaeus, 1766)                                               

Monday, 5 July 2010

Tulip (Red)

Scientific Name: Tulipa pulchella, Tulipa gesneriana

Wednesday, 9 June 2010