{"id":1025,"date":"2008-03-13T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/1025"},"modified":"2008-03-13T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T09:02:00","slug":"birds-of-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/birds-of-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds of Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sumank\/2330074359\/\" title=\"White Throated Munia by sumank, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2366\/2330074359_de2c2e1e01.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" alt=\"White Throated Munia\" \/><\/a><br \/>White Throated Munia @ Nanmangalam Reserve Forest<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sumank\/2327432381\/\" title=\"Pie Crested Cuckoo by sumank, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3012\/2327432381_92d8a3dfca.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"399\" alt=\"Pie Crested Cuckoo\" \/><\/a><br \/>Got this elegant bird in Adyar Poonga on Greenways road in Chennai. I was waiting for him to get out of a tree but I gave up. As I stood up to move away, he relented and posed for me by perching on the fence. This bird is supposed to bring rain upon its arrival. (I don&#8217;t know why I think it is a &#8216;he&#8217;.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sumank\/collections\/72157603933849383\/\">See more birds of Chennai<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<map name=\"google_ad_map_080313083538080313083200\">\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/imgclick\/080313083538080313083200?pos=0\" coords=\"1,2,367,28\"\/>\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/services.google.com\/feedback\/abg\" coords=\"384,10,453,23\"\/><\/map>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" usemap=\"#google_ad_map_080313083538080313083200\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&amp;client=ca-pub-1259014363012020&amp;channel=9138153052&amp;output=png&amp;cuid=080313083538080313083200&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fyakpad10.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fbirds-of-chennai.html\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Throated Munia @ Nanmangalam Reserve ForestGot this elegant bird in Adyar Poonga on Greenways road in Chennai. I was waiting for him to get out of a tree but I gave up. As I stood up to move away, he relented and posed for me by perching on the fence. This bird is supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chennai","tag-birds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Suman Kumar","author_link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/author\/suman-kumar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"White Throated Munia @ Nanmangalam Reserve ForestGot this elegant bird in Adyar Poonga on Greenways road in Chennai. 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