Minal Patel Photography

Ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)

Mottled wood owl
Strix ocellata
(The mottled wood owl (Strix ocellata) is a large typical owl, measuring 40 to 50 cm in length and weighing 700 to 800 grams. Both the sexes look alike. They are nocturnal and roost in the day, usually in pairs or in small family groups.
These mottled wood owls have distinctive, well developed facial disc, extending equally above and below the eyes. The facial disc is whitish with concentric, fine, black barring and random rufous orange mottling. They lack "ear" tufts.
The upper parts of the mottled wood owl species are grayish with rufous-brown and gray mottling and vermiculation. The chin is whitish. There is narrow black and white barring in the medium-sized tail. The underparts are whitish with black barring.
The curved beak is black. The irises are reddish brown and the eyelids are coral-red. The tarsi and toes are feathered in adults and are bare in juveniles. Their call is a loud, quavering, eerie “chuhua-aa” sound. )

Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug)
One of my Fav Falcone it is ..
the largest Falcone of the Family.
It was up-listed to globally endangered in 2012 by IUCN because a revised population trend analysis indicated that it may have undergone a very rapid decline, involving ca. 50% of the global population in the last 20 years, particularly on the Central Asian breeding grounds.(UNEP Report)