Thanks, Bimal ji, I also see similar birds from my 4th floor house, on five of these trees, in front of my flat in Kolkata.
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bimal Sar kar <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 20:17 Subject: ORNITHOPHILY IN BOMBAX CEIBA To: I spent quite few years at Pachmarhi in my service life at different time. Some time in 1982 I noticed different birds visiting flowers of Bombax ceiba ( SHIMUL / SILK COTTON TREE ).After reading Salim Ali I came to know that there are flowers which are mainly pollinated by birds and one such flower is Bombax ceiba. The phenomenon is known as ornithophily. I am recording bird visitors on flowers for last few years. I have recorded the following birds visiting flowers of Bombax ceiba 1. Black headed oriole 2. Blue throated Barbet 3. Common Myna 4. Chestnut tailed Starling 5. House crow 6 Jungle crow 7. Jungle Myna 8. Rose ring Parakeet 9 .Asiatic pied Starling 10 . red vented Bulbul 11. red whiskered Bulbul 12 .Spangled Drongo 13 Tree pie 14 Yellow toed Green pigeon Attached collage is of Black hooded oriole visiting flowers of Bombax ceiba . -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 are directly displayed). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
