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Birds in the campus

                                           
 
 In my free time, I do a bit of amateur bird watching and photography. Below is a list of some of the birds that one might come across in our campus. Note that not all of them are residents and may been seen only during certain periods of the year. The campus also has a variety of fauna including Gray Langurs, Mongoose, various kinds of snakes (have come across cobra, saw scaled viper, krait, python, green vine snake and checkered keelback) and of course a healthy population of stray dogs.   
  1. White wagtail   
  2. Yellow wagtail         
  3. Large pied wagtail   
  4. Indian pipit
  5. Skylark
  6. Malabar crested lark
  7. Golden oriole
  8. Red wattled lapwing
  9. Brahminy kite
  10. Black kite
  11. Honey buzzard
  12. White bellied fish eagle
  13. Black shouldered kite
  14. Eurasian sparrow hawk
  15. Shikra
  16. Pallid harrier
  17. Booted eagle
  18. Indian robin
  19. Magpie robin
  20. Pied bush chat
  21. Cattle egret
  22. Pond heron
  23. Little cormorant
  24. White breasted water hen
  25. Jungle mynah
  26. Common mynah
  27. Rosy starling
  28. Rose ringed parakeet
  29. Tailor bird
  30. Ashy prinia
  31. Blyth's reed warbler
  32. Paddy field warbler
  33. Jungle babbler
  34. Common hoopoe
  35. Oriental dwarf kingfisher
  36. White breasted kingfisher
  37. Purple sunbird
  38. Purple rumped sunbird
  39. Lotens sunbird
  40. Crimson sunbird  (whose picture is on the banner above is one of the personal favorites)
  41. Scaly breasted munia
  42. Tickell's flower pecker
  43. Asian Koel
  44. Pied crested cuckoo
  45. Red whiskered bulbul
  46. Red vented bulbul
  47. Black drongo
  48. Spotted owl
  49. Rufous backed tree pie
  50. Crow phesant
  51. Blue rock pegion   (arguably the most abundant bird on the campus)
  52. Common sparrow (their population in the campus has mysteriously gone down over the past few years) 
  53. Jungle crow
  54. Common crow
  55. Wire tailed swallow
  56. Red rumped swallow
  57. White cheeked orange thrush
  58. Small green bee eater
  59. Blue tailed bee eater
  60. Rufous backed shrike
  61. Peacock
  62. Green pegion
  63. Indian roller
  64. Spotted dove
  65. Green sandpiper
  66. House swift
  67. White cheeked barbet
  68. Brahminy starling
  69. Common wood shrike
  70. White rumped munia
  71. Common iora
  72. Coppersmith barbet
  73. Yellow-eyed babbler
  74. Eurasian wryneck
  75. Common stonechat
  76. Zitting cisticola
Dayara Bugyal Trek
 
 
 
 
Was on a trek to Dayara Bugyal in Uttharakhand. Some of the birds spotted were:
  1. Grey winged blackbird
  2. Spotted nutcracker
  3. Russet sparrow
  4. White-collared blackbird
  5. Whiskered Yuhina
  6. Blue throated flycatcher 
  7. Streaked laughing thrush
  8. Grey bushchat
  9. Eurasian cuckoo
  10. Himalayan griffon
  11. Large tailed minivet
  12. Asian brown flycatcher
  13. Verditer flycatcher
  14. Large billed crow
 
 Birds around campus:
 
 And some of the birds sighted outside the campus, mainly on the road going down the hill from MES college to the NH17-A, Chorla ghats and on the way to the three kings chapel.
  1. Common nightjar
  2. Jerdon's chloropsis
  3. Ashy drongo
  4. Ashy swallow shrike
  5. Median egret
  6. Small minivet
  7. Malabar pied hornbill 
  8. Grey hornbill            
  9. Paradise fly catcher 
  10. Common iora
  11. Spotted dove
  12. Common sandpiper
  13. Western reef egret    
  14. Small blue kingfisher
  15. Forest wagtail
  16. Grey jungle fowl
  17. Black eagle
  18. White rumped munia
  19. Racket-tailed drongo
  20. Grey breasted prinia
  21. Blue faced malkhoa 
  22. Pompadour green pegion
  23. Black lored tit
  24. Black hooded oriole
  25. Thick billed flower pecker
  26. White browed bulbul
  27. Pallas fish eagle
  28. Large egret
  29. Yellow wattled lapwing
  30. Grey headed gull
  31. Open billed stork

Interesting links

Give below are some of the sites that I find interesting:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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