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Pied Bush Chat

Saxicola caprata

Description:

The male is black except for a white rump, wing patch and lower belly. The iris is dark brown, the bill and legs black. The female is drab brown and slightly streaked. Juveniles have a scaly appearance on the underside but dark above like the females.

Habitat:

Agricultural field, sugarcane cultivation.

Notes:

This species is insectivorous, and like other chats, hunts from a prominent low perch. They have been noted to feed on Pyralid moths and whitefly. The nest is built in a hole in a wall or similar site lined with grass and hair, and 2-5 eggs are laid. Paired males did not reduce their dawn singing behaviour when their mates where trapped and temporarily excluded from the territory. This study suggests that males use dawn chorus to mediate social relationships with neighbouring males to proclaim an established territory.

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Karnataka, India

Spotted on Nov 2, 2014
Submitted on Nov 10, 2014

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