Young Birdwatcher's Club

Everybody and anybody would admire the beauty of Parijaat tree, the beautiful flowers with a an orange stalk and white petals that bloom in the late evening and night and by morning they come off the tree and are spread all around it.  It has an exquisite fragrance which encompasses all your surrounding. This tree is a specie of Night flowering Jasmine and is native to South and South East Asia. In our Mythology, Parijaat is the heavenly tree, tree of the Gods.  And it came into this world during the Samudra Manthan and because of its sheer beauty it was planted in the heavens by Lord Indra as the Kalpa Vriksha.  Lord Krishna is credited to have brought it to the land of mortals and first planted it in Dwarka. These really are the flowers of the Gods and the Gods, the only flowers, which could be picked up from the ground and can be offered to the Gods.   Parijaat has many names, one of which is Haar Shringar.  In Marathi it is called Prajakta, in Bengali it is Shefali and Xiwalee, in

This Myna loves human company more than its common counterpart.  It is found to be more agile than the Common Myna.  Looks similar to Common Myna but has pale bluish grey instead of brown body and has orangish around the eyes. We found these Bank Mynas in a big group flocking around an eatery in Jambusar of Bharuch district.  It was the best case of complete trust and co-habitation of humans and birds.  The local shop keepers told us that they are so comfortable around humans that they tit bits from their hands whenever people offer them.  The unfortunate part of this co-existence is these Bank Mynas have completely forgotten its natural food habits and through out the day flock around the eateries to eat offered by humans.  In a long run this might affect their metabolism.