Scientific Name: Perdicula asiatica
Place: Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India
Okay now, you can surely ask why am I repeatedly posting Galliformes in this blog. The answer would be - it is tough to photograph or spot them in the wild; that's why. These medium sized Galliformes are common throughout peninsular India. This bird specie is mostly active during dawn and dusk, when they come in open; otherwise a very shy avian beauty which try to avoid thereby foraging beneath bush thickets in daylight.
Though they are not listed as a threatened specie as per IUCN; still rapid urbanisation and call for upliftment of concrete is a serious threat for them due to habitat loss.
During our short reconciliation tour to Pench (MP) Tiger Reserve in the month of June '15; we started from Kolkata by train and reach Nagpur by late afternoon. The journey towards the resort was fun for us, since we spotted some wildlife on our way to resort.
On 29th June '15, during our morning safari when we were returning from Touria; on our way, just beside the gypsy track some birds were getting inside the bush thickets. Curiosity drove us towards that bush, by that time the flock of 6-7 birds moved up on to a boulder and perched at eye level.
Beside the boulder, when one by one came into the opening, we got them. Everybody from the gypsy got decent photographs of the bird. Photographed one is a male of the specie.
Points to be noted:
Okay now, you can surely ask why am I repeatedly posting Galliformes in this blog. The answer would be - it is tough to photograph or spot them in the wild; that's why. These medium sized Galliformes are common throughout peninsular India. This bird specie is mostly active during dawn and dusk, when they come in open; otherwise a very shy avian beauty which try to avoid thereby foraging beneath bush thickets in daylight.
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| Jungle Bush Quail (Perdicula asiatica) | Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India © Dibyendu Ash @ 2015 (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Though they are not listed as a threatened specie as per IUCN; still rapid urbanisation and call for upliftment of concrete is a serious threat for them due to habitat loss.
During our short reconciliation tour to Pench (MP) Tiger Reserve in the month of June '15; we started from Kolkata by train and reach Nagpur by late afternoon. The journey towards the resort was fun for us, since we spotted some wildlife on our way to resort.
On 29th June '15, during our morning safari when we were returning from Touria; on our way, just beside the gypsy track some birds were getting inside the bush thickets. Curiosity drove us towards that bush, by that time the flock of 6-7 birds moved up on to a boulder and perched at eye level.
Beside the boulder, when one by one came into the opening, we got them. Everybody from the gypsy got decent photographs of the bird. Photographed one is a male of the specie.
Points to be noted:
- Amongst galliformes, Junglefowls and Quails were domesticated since the dawn of civilization.
- Unlike other avifauna, Junglefowls and Quails have feral and semi-feral status in India.
- Though population is declining, but since the species covers extremely large of distribution, it is species status has been evaluated as Least Concern (See this link from Birdlife International).
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