Bird of the Month
Common Iora
Name: Common Iora
Family: Aegithina tiphia
Local Names :
Hindi: Shaubeegi
Tamil/Telugu: Patsu-jitta / Sinna mampala-Kuruvi
Size : Sparrow.
Description: A black and yellow bird with the two white wing bars.
Nesting Season: May to September.
Nest : A compact cup of grasses, neatly and copiously plastered with cobwebs in a fork of twig. 2 to 4 mt. above the ground.
Eggs : 2 to 4. Pale pinky white, blotched with purplish brown.
Distribution: Along the Himalayas up to Arunachal Pradesh and the rest of India.
Habitat : Gardens in towns, grooves of trees in a village outskirts, secondry forest.
Bird Call: Sweet long drawn musical whistles and short chirrups.
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Sri Ramakrishna
Man is born in this world with two tendencies- Vidya" the tendency to pursue the path of liberation, and Avidya, the leaning towards worldliness and bondage. At his birth, both these tendencies are, as it were, in equilibrium like the two scales of a balance. The world soon places its enjoyments and pleasures in one scale, and the Spirit its attractions in the other. If the mind chooses the world, the scale of Avidya becomes heavy, and man gravitates towards the earth; but if it chooses the Spirit, the scale of Vidya becomes heavier and pulls him towards God.
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