Gobar Times: Meet the Brown Rock Chat

Belonging to the chat sub-family, this resident bird is endemic to northwest and central India
Gobar Times: Meet the Brown Rock Chat
Photo credits: Athiya Mahapatra
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Knock-knock, who’s there? The holy Brown Rock Chat. A holy who???... That’s how a timid bird perplexed me at 3:30am in the dark of dawn. It was February 2019 and I was calming the anxieties of my daughter, who was fearing her imminent exams. Persistently knocking my door—I hesitated to investigate any such visitor at an ungodly hour. So, I peeped out from an adjacent window to survey my doorway and was delightfully surprised to find a beautiful, winged creature.

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