The Shivalik Range of Mountains is home to numerous birds. Among the birds I spotted during my recent journey out there was this couple Oriental White Eyed.
This bird is small (about 8–9 cm long) with yellowish olive upper parts, a white eye ring, yellow throat and vent. The belly is whitish grey but may have yellow in some subspecies.
Even though they are sociable, forming flocks, they separate on the approach of the breeding season which is from February to September with April as the peak breeding season season.They build compact cup nest that is a placed like a hammock on the fork of a branch and lay two blue coloured eggs. Both sexes take care of brooding the chicks which fledge in about 10 days. Though mainly insectivorous, the Oriental white-eye will also draw nectar and eat fruits of various kinds
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