Birds 17 - The White Bellied Blue Robin

The white bellied blue robin or white-bellied sholakili is a blue-gray beauty with a pale belly and frosty forehead; Its song is thrush-like, angelic and melodious, tit-like notes interspersed with ringing and harsh buzzing rattles. The bird builds its nest of moss and fibrous roots, in a tree-hole or amid grass low on the ground, lays two eggs greyish green, a season. Its breeding season varies from April to June; it is known to moult its tail feathers in the beginning of June Shola or cõlai means grove - patches of tropical montane forest in the valleys of rolling grassland - that are home to this bird. These forest patches go on dwindling in size, the bird species suffers habitat loss, thus threatened of extinction.