{"id":21115,"date":"2012-09-11T10:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=21115"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:30:07","slug":"red-avadavats-or-strawberry-finches-amandava-amandava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/red-avadavats-or-strawberry-finches-amandava-amandava\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Avadavats or Strawberry Finches (Amandava amandava)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Munias or Red Avadavats or Strawberry finches (Amandava amandava)<\/p>\n

It was December 2011 when I was at a village named Ikrotia at a distance of about 15 kms from\u00a0 my hometown for birding. I spent 10 days there and captured about 2500 images throughout 10 days.<\/p>\n

On the third day of my tour during birding I saw a group of small birds flying in the sky at a long distance. Those were seemed munias but was not sure about the species due to the far distance. I stopped and start watching the group. The birds continued their flight here and there in the sky. After sometime the birds came down and landed on the ground at a distance\u00a0 of 200feet from me. I saw them and those were Red munias or Red avadavats . Some of them were juveniles, some were females and only one male. They started feeding on the ground. I was watching them and their activities keenly. When I found them normal with the habitat I started advancing towards them slowly and when the distance remains about 50 feet I laid down on the ground and start advancing towards them on my elbows. I was advancing towards them in steps and when the distance remained about 20 feet I felt that they were also advancing towards me having their food simultaneously. I stopped myself and took my position. These munias were advancing continuously towards me and taking their food. I was following them in viewfinder now and when I found them looking\u00a0 fine in the viewfinder I start firing the shutter and continue shooting till the birds were present there. It took about 5 mins for shooting. Suddenly, a shikra flew over the birds and the birds flew very fast. Here are a few frames from that shooting.<\/p>\n

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Red Avadavat male on the perch<\/p>\n

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Red Avadavat couple on a perch at a personal talk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red Avadavat female at rest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red Avadavat juvenile feeding on the ground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red Avadavat female feeding on the ground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Red Munias or Red Avadavats or Strawberry finches (Amandava amandava) It was December 2011 when I was at a village named Ikrotia at a distance of about 15 kms from\u00a0 my hometown for birding. I spent 10 days there and captured about 2500 images throughout 10 days. On the third day of my tour during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2192499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SFA-0166.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[633,635,636,634,637],"class_list":["post-21115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-nikon","tag-redavadavad","tag-redmunia","tag-sigma","tag-strawberryfinch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}