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Spot-winged thrush

Geokichla spiloptera

Description:

A rare breeding resident inhabiting undergrowth of forests and well wooded areas from wet lowlands to higher hills. Scarce and local in riverine forests in the dry zone. It feeds on insects, worms, etc mainly on the ground, skulking in the undergrowth while turning over leaf litter. It lives as pairs or as solitary birds. The breeding season is from March to April and again from August to September. It build a nest - an untidy mass of twigs, moss and grass- placed in a crown of tree fern or fork of a sapling where it lays two eggs.

Habitat:

rain forest undergrowth

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1 Comment

nice

NuwanChathuranga
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NuwanChathuranga

Sri Lanka

Spotted on Nov 8, 2014
Submitted on Nov 14, 2014

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