"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."- Chili Davis
# Flycatchers of the Sinhagad valley
Differentiating between the male and female Indian Paradise flycather, when they are young is rather difficult since they both look like specimens of the bulbul family, being rich chestnut-hued birds with the head and crest metallic bluish black.
As the male grows older his central tail feathers grow longer in length and he will eventually rid his chestnut plumage and dawn a snowy white one.
One look at this fellow and you can easily tell that it is a sub adult male. It reminds me of a school boy who goes reluctantly to school with his shirt tucked in and hair neatly combed and returns home with mischievous eyes, shirt pulled out and, hair disheveled!
Indian paradise flycatcher (sub adult male)
(Terpsiphone paradisi)
Sony A77II
Tamron 150-600
f/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO1000, 280mm
Sinhagad Valley, Pune (India)
March 2020
Differentiating between the male and female Indian Paradise flycather, when they are young is rather difficult since they both look like specimens of the bulbul family, being rich chestnut-hued birds with the head and crest metallic bluish black.
As the male grows older his central tail feathers grow longer in length and he will eventually rid his chestnut plumage and dawn a snowy white one.
One look at this fellow and you can easily tell that it is a sub adult male. It reminds me of a school boy who goes reluctantly to school with his shirt tucked in and hair neatly combed and returns home with mischievous eyes, shirt pulled out and, hair disheveled!
Indian paradise flycatcher (sub adult male)
(Terpsiphone paradisi)
Sony A77II
Tamron 150-600
f/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO1000, 280mm
Sinhagad Valley, Pune (India)
March 2020
