Resonance journal of science education in the Backyard Chief Editor N Sathyamurthy, Bengaluru Black (Phoenicurusochruros) Associate Editors

Kaushal Verma, Bengaluru B Sury, Bengaluru This small is an ,wrongly classifiedinitially as a member ofthe Satish Patil, Bengaluru Tarun Deep Saini, Bengaluru Shobhana Narasimhan, Bengaluru Varsha Singh, Bengaluru family.Found in westernEurope and north ofthe Mediterranean all year, it winters T N C Vidya, Bengaluru in parts ofAfrica and in the Arabian and Indian peninsulas. The that winters in the Indian peninsula breeds in the . Adult males ofthis species (see photo) are AmitRoy, Kolkata Nandini Nagarajan, Hyderabad black above, have a black throat and breast, and are rufousbelow. Females are brown but Anand K Bachhawat, Mohali Raghunand R Tirumalai, Hyderabad J K Bera, Kanpur Ramanujam Srinivasan, Bhubaneswar with the tail like that ofthe adult male. Su bad ult males have dull plumage like the females Bodhisatta Nandy, Berhampur D J Saikia, Pune and also show differentsong characteristics than adult males. Since song in this species, as Govind Krishnaswami, Chennai T R Seshadri, Delhi with many others, is used in the context of territory defenseby males, song as well as Guruswamy Kumaraswamy, Pune Shailesh A Shirali, Pune K lndulekha, Kottayam Sindhu Radhakrishna, Bengaluru plumage can be used by adult males to assess the threat ofterritorial intrusion by other Kapil Paranjape, Mohali Sudeshna Mazumdar-Leighton, Delhi males. Delayed maturation ofplumage in males is also seen in other species and we will Lilavati Krishnan, Indore Sujata Deshpande, Mumbai examine that in another issue. Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Suman Beri, Manjari Jain, Mohali R B Sunoj, Mumbai Mihir Arjunwadkar, Pune AR Usha Devi, Bengaluru The black reds tart may also be able to discriminate between their fledglings Editor of Publications Amitabh Joshi, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific based on calls, which allows forbrood Research, Bengaluru division: division oflabour with each Associate Editor of PublicationsRam Sagar, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Hyderabad parentpreferentially feeding a specific Editorial Staff Geetha Sugumaran, R Pushpavathi, M Srimathi chick in the nest. They nest in holes or Circulation and Accounts A Jayakumar, B N Naregal, Meghana B Yadav, A Shashidhar, T M Tejeswini. cavities in rocky areas.Individuals are usually solitary in winter. They show Editorial Office: Indian Academy of Sciences, CV Raman Avenue, PB No. 8005, Bengaluru 560 080, India. characteristicjerky tail movements and Tel: +91 (80)2266 1243 / 1245/1200, Fax: +91 (80)2361 6094, Email: [email protected] makequick flightsfrom their perch to Website: http://www.ias.ac. in/resonance catch . All articles are freely accessible on the website of the INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance) Annual Subscription Rates: Institutions: ?1000/- per year; Individuals: ?500/- for one year; Price per single copy: ?50/- AII correspondence regarding subscription should be addressed to The Circulation Department of the Academy. Email:[email protected]

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