Thank you i love this We just had a flock of these orioles passing thru south 24 paragans which direction they took i know not but they made quite a ruckus for a couple of days
my mom had planted several of these shimul trees in our front yard it was new subdivision then with dirt roads and the trees got to be about 20 feet tall and we used to see a lot of bulbuls and other birds come and hop and sing all day my dad took movies and then one day the local corporation office came and cut down the trees and confiscated the land to widen the road i remember we were very very sad not for loss of land but for the trees and the birds i even cried. that was more than 60 years ago. BIMALDA have you made a montage of all those birds on Bombax? usha di On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:28 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- 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.
