Shikra Security! Production of Predators!
The juvenile Shikra or Sparrowhawk or Little Banded Goshawk (Accipiter badius) is seen in our office garden.
This youngster is out of its nest, but not yet on its own. It still depends on its parents for food.
How do I know it? This is how...
Occasionally, perhaps whenever it is hungry, it does the food-begging-dance that most of the bird chicks do to the glass windows of our Office.
Wonderful to have such a nice garden mate, who would dance at you when you fill up water. He is not too shy, wherein allowing humans up to 5 or 6 feet range. Hoping he becomes shy sooner for his own good.
Normally he stays in the thick canopy, perhaps to evade predators, since the careless little ones are always picked by larger predators. In birds, even an adult predator of his own size would pick him up very easily, considering the fact that Shikras are known to hunt birds that are larger than themselves in size and weight.
The male Shikras tend to have orange to reddish eyes, while the females have yellowish eyes. Not sure if Juveniles also possess yellowish eyes and if not, this fellow has yellowish eyes and could turn out to be a lovely girl in the future.
Shikra Security! Production of Predators!
The juvenile Shikra or Sparrowhawk or Little Banded Goshawk (Accipiter badius) is seen in our office garden.
This youngster is out of its nest, but not yet on its own. It still depends on its parents for food.
How do I know it? This is how...
Occasionally, perhaps whenever it is hungry, it does the food-begging-dance that most of the bird chicks do to the glass windows of our Office.
Wonderful to have such a nice garden mate, who would dance at you when you fill up water. He is not too shy, wherein allowing humans up to 5 or 6 feet range. Hoping he becomes shy sooner for his own good.
Normally he stays in the thick canopy, perhaps to evade predators, since the careless little ones are always picked by larger predators. In birds, even an adult predator of his own size would pick him up very easily, considering the fact that Shikras are known to hunt birds that are larger than themselves in size and weight.
The male Shikras tend to have orange to reddish eyes, while the females have yellowish eyes. Not sure if Juveniles also possess yellowish eyes and if not, this fellow has yellowish eyes and could turn out to be a lovely girl in the future.