18-9-2017: Broad Tailed Grass Warbler Vulnerable Birds A commemorative postage stamp

This species has a small fragmented declining range and population as a result of the clearance and modification of grasslands. It therefore qualifies as Vulnerable. This Bird is endemic to the Western Ghats India where it is known from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Large plain warbler with whitish underparts and broad rounded tail. Refescent-brown upperparts when breeding, but colder and greyer when plumage worn. It also occurs in dense screw pine swamps, lemon grass and dwarf dates and at the edges of forest. One such Category of Birds is “Vulnerable”(VU), where in those Birds species comes which have high risk of endangerment in the wild. The Department of posts is pleased to release a set of three stamps on the Vulnerable birds.