Birds Around Me

Male Pied Bushchat (काला पिद्दा) - Saxicola caprata The Pied Bushchat काला पिद्दा  (Saxicola caprata)  is slightly smaller than the Oriental Magpie Robin  दहियर, काली सुई चिड़िया (Copsychus saularis) , about the size of a sparrow.   Although it has a similar dumpy structure and upright stance. The male is jet-black except for a white rump, wing patch and lower belly. The white patch on the wings is more prominent in flight.  The female  Pied Bushchat  काला पिद्दा  (Saxicola caprata) is plain earth-brown with a pale rust coloured rump.  Often seen in open countryside and around cultivation, perched on bushtops and reed stems. It makes frequent little darts to the ground to pick up a fly, moth or a bug. Its sorties are very similar to fly-catchers. Among the Toda people in the Nilgiris, the pied bushchat or kāŗpiłc, is a bird of omen and the origin of its white wing patches is described in a story of a dairy priest who in the ritual of ...