Today (12th November 2014) on the occasion of National Bird Watching day spent whole day in birding with my wife Sheela Panwar and covered two different habitats in foothills of Kumaon Region. One was mixed forest (Ranikota Trail) and other was wetland (Baur Reservoir). Checklist of all the birds spotted on these two trails is given below: 1. Grey Francolin 2. Red Jungle Fowl 3. Ruddy Shelduck 4. Gadwall 5. Indian Spot-billed Duck 6. Common Pochard 7. Ferruginous Duck 8. Tufted Duck 9. Little Grebe 10. Asian Openbill 11. Woolly-necked Stork 12. Red-naped Ibis 13. Indian Pond Heron 14. Grey Heron 15. Purple Heron 16. Cattle Egret 17. Great Egret 18. Intermediate Egret 19. Little Egret 20. Little Cormorant 21. Common Kestrel 22. Himalayan Vulture 23. Mountain Hawk Eagle 24. Purple Swamphen 25. Common Moorhen 26. Pheasant-tailed Jacana 27. Bronze-winged Jacana 28. Pied Avocet 29. Black-winged Stilt 30. Red-wattled Lapwing 31. Lesser Sand Plover 32. Common Redshank 33. Common Greenshank 34. Green Sandpiper 35. Common Sandpiper 36. Pallas’s Gull 37. Brown-headed Gull 38. Common Pigeon 39. Eurasian Collared Dove 40. Spotted Dove 41. Rose-ringed Parakeet 42. Plum-headed Parakeet 43. Alexandrine Parakeet 44. Greater Coucal 45. Spotted Owlet 46. Crested Treeswift 47. Little Swift 48. Common Hoopoe 49. White-throated Kingfisher 50. Common Kingfisher 51. Pied Kingfisher 52. Green Bee-eater 53. Lineated Barbet 54. Grey-headed Woodpecker 55. Lesser Goldenback 56. Greater Goldenback 57. Long-tailed Shrike 58. Grey-backed Shrike 59. Black Drongo 60. Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo 61. Black-hooded Oriole 62. Yellow-bellied Fantail 63. White-throated Fantail 64. Rufous Treepie 65. Grey Treepie 66. Indian Jungle Crow 67. House Crow 68. Great Tit 69. Green-backed Tit 70. Black-throated Tit 71. Barn Swallow 72. Himalayan Bulbul 73. Black-crested Bulbul 74. Red-whiskered Bulbul 75. Red-vented Bulbul 76. Ashy Bulbul 77. Grey-breasted Prinia 78. Plain Prinia 79. Ashy Prinia 80. Golden-headed Cisticola 81. Common Tailorbird 82. Aberrant Bush Warbler 83. Common Chiffchaff 84. Dusky Warbler 85. Hume’s Leaf Warbler 86. Grey-hooded Warbler 87. Lesser Whitethroat 88. Chestnut-capped Babbler 89. Large Grey Babbler 90. Jungle Babbler 91. Oriental White-eye 92. Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch 93. Common Myna 94. Bank Myna 95. Asian-pied Starling 96. Blue-whistling Thrush 97. White-tailed Rubythroat 98. Oriental Magpie Robin 99. Indian Robin 100. Plumbeous Water Redstart 101. White-capped Redstart 102. Common Stonechat 103. Pied Bushchat 104. Grey Bushchat 105. Brown Rock Chat 106. Dark-sided Flycatcher 107. Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher 108. Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher 109. Small Niltava 110. Purple Sunbird 111. Crimson Sunbird 112. House Sparrow 113. White-rumped Munia 114. Scaly-breasted Munia 115. Yellow Wagtail 116. Citrine Wagtail 117. Grey Wagtail 118. White Wagtail 119. White-browed Wagtail 120. Paddyfield Pipit 121. Olive-backed Pipit 122. Common Rosefinch 123. White-capped Bunting
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:21:13 +0000
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