India GOBirds of Hampi
Yellow-throated bulbul
The same granite that makes Hampi a World Heritage Site is what the bird needs; outside the protected zone these boulder hills are quarried, which is why the species is threatened.
Pycnonotus xantholaemus
Painted spurfowl
It is one of the few birds essentially confined to India's dry boulder country, which makes the Hampi-Daroji landscape one of the better places in the world to look for it.
Galloperdix lunulata
Indian eagle-owl
Owls carry a heavy load of superstition in India, and this species in particular has suffered from it. Put plainly, it is a rodent hunter that lives among rocks.
Bubo bengalensis
Painted sandgrouse
Male sandgrouse soak their breast feathers at a waterhole and fly the water back to their chicks, a behaviour unique to this family.
Pterocles indicus
Indian peafowl
The peacock is the mount of Murugan and appears throughout Vijayanagara's carved friezes; the birds walking under those same reliefs are the same species the sculptors watched.
Pavo cristatus
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