Photo Feature
Malabar Parakeet
<p>Summer arrives in India, hot and heavy on the heels of a tropical winter. Although we may eschew summer, the trees welcome it with a riot of fiery red and orange blooms. With food in low supply and even waterholes near empty, the bright flowers of “flaming” palash <em>Butea monosperma</em><em> </em>provide much-needed nourishment and moisture to the resident birds, like the Malabar Parakeet <em>Psittacula columboides</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Photo:</strong> Suresh Rao.</p>