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BIRDS IN MASINAGUDI - 2015

BY P S SUNDAR

Further to my article titled ICON 10 -- BIRDS OF UPPER BHAVANI 2015, herewith the list of birds identified in Masinagudi during Big Bird Day 2015 (BBD).  The team led by retired forest officer Charles Corfield and Octavious Bunshaw, included Jamuna Raju, Gokul, Rajesh, Padmanabhan, Jayaprakash and Sivawere. 

This team sighted 92 species against 131 (including sub-species) recorded last year. 

The birds sighted by them as per the compilation sent to me by BBD co-ordinator Jamuna Raju were:

Grey Junglefowl

Common Sandpiper

Laughing Dove

Spotted Dove

Common Kingfisher

Common Hoopoe

White-cheeked Barbet

Streak-throated Woodpecker

Grey Wagtail

Scarlet Minivet

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Red-vented Bulbul

Indian Blackbird

Oriental Magpie Robin

Indian Robin

Pied Bushchat

Asian paradise flycatcher

Jungle Babbler

Cinereous Tit

Oriental White Eye

Jungle Crow

House Crow

Jungle Myna

House Sparrow

Great Horn Bill

Ashy Prinia

Asian Fairy Blue Bird

White-bellied Drongo

Tickell's Blue Flycatcher

Pond Heron

Scoops Owl

Barn Swallow

Scaly-breasted Munia

Night Jar

Yellow footed Green Pigeon

Racquet Tailed Drongo

Indian Roller

Crested Serpent Eagle

Black Eagle

Honey Buzzard

Green Bee Eater

Black Shouldered Kite

Malabar Grey Hornbill

Black Drongo

Rufous Treepie

Forest Wagtail

White-browed Fantail flycatcher

Common hawk cuckoo

Chestnut-headed bee eater

Rose Ringed Parakeet

Purple Sunbird

Pied Kingfisher

White-bellied woodpecker

White-browed wagtail

Indian Pita

Eurasian Eagle Owl

Brahminy Starling

Bush Quail

Black-lored tit

Yellow-browed Bulbul

Greenish Warbler

Yellow-footed Green Pigeon

Plum-headed Parakeet

Spotted Owl

Copper Smith Barbet

Changeable Hawk Eagle

Brahminy Kite

Little Egret

Spoon-billed duck

Crested Tree Swift

Black-hooded Oriole

Peacock

Grey Shrike

Greater Coucal

Blitz Warbler

Rufous-backed shrike

Crimson-backed Sunbird

White-browed Bulbul

Grey Francolin (Patridge)

Darter

Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker

Painted Stork

Red Wattled Lapwing

Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch

Roller Blu Jay

Wire-tailed Swallow

Red-rumped Swallow

Asian Koel

Bay-back Shrike

Thick-billed flower pecker

Swan

Small Minivet

photos of some birds clicked by this team during BBD 2015::