Common Urban Birds in India
Common Urban Birds Some birds are very specific about the terrain they live like the shore birds or hornbills. But few birds are very adaptable and they have started to live with us in urban environment like the rock pigeons. Mynas, crows use the urban setup efficiently and their population is exploding while birds that are very specific to their diet and terrain are deteriorating in alarming speed. Sunbirds, flowerpeckers are so tiny and their requirements are very limited, so they can be seen both in garden and jungle. Black kites who have started scavenging the garbage pile-up areas can be often seen circling on the sky even above a busy road. I have seen mynas using the traffic lights boxes as their nest box, rose-ringed parakeets using the holes on tunnels and spotted owlets on any abandoned building sites. Even though there are numerous birds in urban setup, most people don't recognise the birds except for crows and mynas. So we decided to take video of our urban avian neigh...