Bulbul

Pycnonotidae bulbuls * Sumatra blue-wattled bulbul, Pycnonotus nieuwenhuisii inexspectatus (Sumatra, Indonesia, late 20th century?) :A subspecies of the blue-wattled bulbul known from a single 1937 specimen.

Zoya Akhtar called me, explained the graph of Bulbul and shared the script with me.

IMD officials added that while Amphan seemed to be taking a similar pathway and trajectory as cyclone Bulbul, it is likely to be more devastating.

The distinctive bird song of the Red Bishop () and the Rain Cuckoo () and the black-eyed Bulbul () were also well recorded in the old peoples’ traditional orature as indications of imminent rainfall, and accordingly crop fields were prepared.

Cyclone Bulbul made landfall between West Bengal and Bangladesh coasts late on Saturday, claiming at least 10 lives and affecting over six lakh people.

Deepak Ranjan Khilar, a farmer of Purusottampur panchayat, “Bulbul has played havoc to paddy crops.

It was initially Hazrat Syed Sharaf-ud-Din Abdul Rahman (RA), a Sufi from Turkistan also known as Syed Bulbul Shah (RA) who provided the idea of Islam in Kashmir.

Pakistan’s entry, Kamal Khan’s “Laal Kabootar,” is concerned with a petty criminal who aims to escape his circumstances, while from Nepal, Binod Paudel’s “Bulbul” follows the travails of a woman who drives a tempo truck in Kathmandu.

The heavy downpours due to the effect of Cyclone Bulbul have damaged about 95 per cent of crops in Sumulia block in Balasore district.

Three species not native to the island, the long-tailed macaque, red-whiskered bulbul and the black rat, visited the flowers too.