This image depicts a segment of a bird market in Kandahar, Afghanistan

This image depicts a segment of a bird market in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Confined within a large, rusty, square-mesh metal cage are multiple Red-vented Bulbuls (Pycnonotus cafer). These dark-brown and black-headed birds, some with visibly ruffled or disheveled feathers, are seen perching on the cage bars at various heights. In the foreground, a yellow plastic dish contains water, and an orange plastic feeder, filled with granular birdseed, holds one bird standing directly within it. The background, blurred, reveals an array of other smaller, colorful bird cages (yellow, blue, red), a blue plastic chair, and a red plastic bucket, indicative of a commercial animal vending environment. No human subjects are present in the frame.