Birds Around Me

There is a small pond in front of our home in Jabalpur called Shahi Talab, all year round. In our garden we see all sort of common garden birds but one day we caught thief who was eating all the feed for little aves. It was White-breasted Waterhen (जलमुर्गी, डौक) - Amaurornis phoenicurus that frequented our garden every morning snacking on the feed before anyone got up. White-breasted Waterhen (जलमुर्गी, डौक) - Amaurornis phoenicurus is a bird of the Rails (Rallidae) family, skulking marsh-haunting birds of small size, with stubby tails, rounded winds, and longish bare legs and toes. It is a common slaty grey stub-tailed, bare-legged marsh bird, with a prominent white face and breast, and bright rusty red under the cocked-up tail.  The White-breasted Waterhen (जलमुर्गी, डौक) is inseparable from the neighborhood of water and usually met with singly or in pairs in or near reed beds and thickets on the edge of lakes and village ponds.  White-breasted Waterhen (जलमुर्गी,...