This favorite type of winged visitor belongs to a category called the perching birds.

While flying insects like mosquitoes and flies are considered "nuisance" pests, some winged visitors demand considerably more respect.

When wet, especially in spring, the playa is a favorite place for these winged visitors to rest and feed.

For today is "Butterfly Tagging Day" at the preserve, meaning that the zoologist Peter Warney will demonstrate how the winged visitors are temporarily caught, tagged and then released.

It took repeated efforts to down the big insect, but the winged visitor finally succumbed.

Surrounded by lush green forest, it is rich in flora and fauna and attracts a lot of winged visitors, like the bar-headed goose, Brahminy ducks and open billed stork.

Aahz had insisted on this, hinting darkly that I might be receiving winged visitors in the night.

Then, lifting her right hand, our sister tossed a small crumpled leaf at the winged visitor.

The Indian festival Diwali is not celebrated here because the sound of crackers would drive away the winged visitors.

The aroma garden acts as a welcoming greenhouse for winged visitors, with species like parijatham and pavalamalli (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis) found to flock the place in bulk.