
Demoiselle cranes calling at Pakshi Chugga Ghar in Khichan, Rajasthan
Rajasthan·wildlife · birds
A large congregation of Demoiselle Cranes (Anthropoides virgo), locally known as Kurja, gathers at Pakshi Chugga Ghar in Khichan, Rajasthan, India.
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Huge herd of Barasingha deer in a field in Assam, India. These deer, both young stags-in-velvet and hinds, are the DEER {probably the SWAMP DEER, Cervus duvauceli duvauceli, and not Cervus branderii OR Rucervus duvaucelii OR 'Cervus branderii-branderii'..........These are the slushy-soft ground and jheel Barasinghas of Dudhwa and the JHEEL south of it}. They are very common only in Kaziranga and Bor Bheel and such bheel jheel riverain-either-side-Brahmaputra-Dhansiri swampy areas, NOT the Kanha-Kicchli Maidans. According to Wikipedia, "The Barasingha or Swamp deer (Rucervus duvaucelii) is a deer species currently found in isolated localities in north and central India, and southwestern Nepal, and is extinct in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The binomial commemorates the French naturalist Alfre
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