Thank you very much Bimal Ji for sharing. 🙏 This is very good data about Bombax Ceiba. Sharmila
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:17 PM Bimal Sar kar <[email protected]> wrote: > I spent quite few years at Pachmarhi in my service life at > different time. Some time in 1982 I noticed different birds visiting > flowers of Bombax ceiba ( SHIMUL / SILK COTTON TREE ).After reading Salim > Ali I came to know that there are flowers which are mainly pollinated by > birds and one such flower is Bombax ceiba. The phenomenon is known as > ornithophily. > I am recording bird visitors on flowers for last few years. I > have recorded the following birds visiting flowers of Bombax ceiba > 1. Black headed oriole > 2. Blue throated Barbet > 3. Common Myna > 4. Chestnut tailed Starling > 5. House crow > 6 Jungle crow > 7. Jungle Myna > 8. Rose ring Parakeet > 9 .Asiatic pied Starling > 10 . red vented Bulbul > 11. red whiskered Bulbul > 12 .Spangled Drongo > 13 Tree pie > 14 Yellow toed Green pigeon > Attached collage is of Black hooded oriole visiting flowers of > Bombax ceiba . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
