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Coots running. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Cute Coot of Baikka Beel: 'And yet he was as bald as a coot'

In Bangla the Coot was once called ‘Jal-Kukkut’ meaning ‘water-chicken’; seemingly, after the ancient Vedic word ‘Kukkut’, which meant ‘chicken’. We do not know if the Coot’s name ‘Coote’ in Old...

Snipe in flight. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Baikka Beel: 'A world where snipe work late'

Siberian Rubythroat snapping tail. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Siberian Rubythroat: ‘The morning bird; Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded’

A female Black-winged Stilt. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Black-winged Stilts: 'I only want to caress them'

Blue-bearded Bee-eater: Hunting bees with 'stings big as drawing pins!'

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Blue-bearded Bee-eater: Hunting bees with 'stings big as drawing pins!'

Green Magpies: 'Their greed is brief; their joy is long'

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Green Magpies: 'Their greed is brief; their joy is long'

Ashy Drongo takes nectar. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Ashy Drongo: 'Never.. it asked a crumb of me.'

A male Emerald Dove. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Emerald Dove: 'Why would you leave me, sweet bird! why?'

Racket-tailed Drongo on shade-tree. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Racket-tailed Drongo: 'My Bird's Tail's a tail indeed'

Honey buzzard soaring. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Honey Buzzard soaring: 'The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray are of advantage...'

Woodswallows huddling. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Woodswallow: ‘High and high, to thy banqueting-place in the sky’

Wagtail hunting insect. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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'The Wagtail, in a winking, with terror rose and disappeared'

Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

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Birds named Laughingthrush: 'They comment on everything that exists'