BIRDS OF BHARATPUR – CHECK LIST
Family PHASIANIDAE: Pheasants, Partridges, Quail
BLACK FRANCOLIN
GREY FRANCOLIN
COMMON QUAIL
RAIN QUAIL
JUNGLE BUSH QUAIL
YELLOW-LEGGED BUTTON QUAIL
BARRED BUTTON QUAIL
PAINTED SPURFOWL
INDIAN PEAFOWL
Family ANATIDAE: Ducks, Geese, Swans
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
GREYLAG GOOSE
BAR-HEADED GOOSE
LWSSER WHISTLING-DUCK
RUDDY SHELDUCK
COMMON SHELDUCK
COMB DUCK
COTTON PYGMY GOOSE
MARBLED DUCK
GADWALL
FALCATED DUCK
EURASIAN WIGEON
MALLARD
SPOT-BILLED DUCK
COMMON TEAL
GARGANEY
NORTHERN PINTAIL
NORTHERN SHOVELER
RED-CRESTED POCHARD
COMMON POCHARD
FERRUGINOUS POCHARD
TUFTED DUCK
BAIKAL TEAL
GREATER SCAUP
BAER’S POCHARD
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Family PICIDAE: Woodpeckers
EURASIAN WRYNECK
BROWN-CAPPED PYGMY WOODPECKER
YELLOW-CROWNED WOODPECKER
BLACK-RUMPED FLAMBACK
Family CAPITONIDAE: Barbets
BROWN-HEADED BARBET
COPPERSMITH BARBET
Family UPUPIDAE: Hoopoes
COMMON HOOPOE
Family BUCEROTIDAE: Hornbills
INDAIN GREY HORNBILL
Family CORACIIDAE: Rollers or Blue Jays
EUROPEAN ROLLER
INDIAN ROLLER
Family ALCEDINIDAE: Kingfisher
COMMON KINGFISHER
STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER
WHITE-THROATED KINGFISHER
BLACK-CAPPED KINGFISHER
PIED KINGFISHER
Family MEROPIDAE: Bee-eaters
GREEN BEE-EATER
BLUE-CHEEKED BEE-EATER
BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER
Family CUCULIDAE: Cuckoos, Crow-pheasants
PIED CUCKOO
CHESTNUT-WINGED CUCKOO
COMMON HAWK CUCKOO
INDIAN CUCKOO
EURASIAN CUCKOO
GREY-BELLIED CUCKOO
PLAINTIVE CUCKOO
DRONGO CUCKOO
ASIAN KOEL
SIRKEER MALKOHA
GREATER COUCAL
LESSER COUCAL
Family PSITTACIDAS: Parrots
ROSE-RINGED PARAKEET
PLUM-HEADED PARKEET
Family APODIDAE: Swifts
ASIAN PALM SWIFT
HOUSE SWIFT
ALPINE SWIFT
Family STRIGIDAE: Owls
BARN OWL
ORIENTAL SCOPS OWL
COLLARED SCOPS OWL
EURASIAN EAGLE OWL
DUSKY EAGLE OWL
BROWN FISH OWL
MOTTLED WOOD OWL
ASIAN BARRED OWLET
SPOTTED OWLET
BROWN HAWK OWL
SHORT-EARED OWL
Family CAPRIMULGIDAE: Nightjars, Goatsuckers
GREY NIGHTJAR
EURASIAN NIGHTJAR
SYDES’S NIGHTJAR
LARGE-TAILED NIGHTJAR
INDIAN NIGTHTJAR
SAVANNA NIGHTJAR
Family COLUMBIDAE: Pigeons, Doves
ROCK PIGEON
YELLOW-EYED PIGEON
ORIENTAL TURTLE DOVE
LAUGHING DOVE
SPOTTED DOVE
RED COLLARD DOVE
EURASIAN COLLARED DOVE
YELLOW-FOOTED GREEN PIGEON
Family GURIDAE: Cranes
SIBERIAN CRANE
SARUS CRANE
DEMOISELLE CRANE
COMMON CRANE
Family RALLIDAE: Rail, Coots
WATER RAIL
BROWN CRAKE
WHITE-BREASTED WATERHEN
BAILLON’S CRAKE
RUDDY-BREASTED CRAKE
SPOTTED CRAKE
WATER COCK
PURPLE SWAMPHEN
COMMON MOORHEN
COMMON COOT
Family PREROCLIDIDAE: Sandgrouse
CHESTNUT-BELLIED SANDGROUSE
PAINTED SANDGROUSE
Family JACANIDAE: Jacanas
PHEASANT-TAILED JACANA
BRONZE-WINGED JACANA
Family CHARADRIIDAE: Povers, Sandpipers, Snipe
PINTAIL SNIPE
COMMON SNIPE
JACK SNIPE
BLACK-TAILED GODWIT
EURASIAN CURLEW
SPOTTED REDSHANK
COMMON REDSHANK
MARSH SANDPIPER
COMMON GREENSHANK
GREEN SANDPIPER
WOOD SANDPIPER
TEREK SANDPIPER
COMMON SANDPIPER
RUDDY TURNSTONE
ASIAN DOWITCHER
RED KNOT
LITTLE STINT
TIMMINCK’S STINT
DUNLIN
CURLEW SANDPIPER
BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER
RUFF
GREY PLOVER
PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER
COMMON RINGED PLOVER
LITTLE RINGED PLOVER
KENTISH PLOVER
LESSER SAND PLOVER
NORTHERN LAPWING
RIVER LAPWING
GREY-HEADED LAPWING
RED-WATTLED LAPIWING
SOCIABLE LAPWING
WHITE-TAILED LAPWING
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
YELLOW-WATTLED LAPWING
Family ROSTRATULIDAE: Painted Snipe
GREATER PAINTED-SNIPE
Family RECURVIROSTRIDAE: tilts,Avocets,Ibisbills
BLACK-WINGED STILT
PIED AVOCET
Family BURHINIDAE: Stone Curlews,Thick knees
EURASIAN THICK-KNEE
Family GLAREOLIDAE:Coursers,Pratincoles
INDIAN COURSER
COLLARED PRATINCOLE
SMALL PRATINCOLE
Family LARIDAE: Gulls,Terns
YELLOW-LEGGED GULL
PALLAS’S GULL
BROWN-HEADED GULL
BLACK-HEADED GULL
GULL-BILLED TERN
RIVER TERN
LITTLE TERN
BLACK-BELLIED TERN
WHISKERED TERN
Family ACCIPITRIDAE : Hawks, Vultues, etc.
OSPREY
BLACK-SHOULDERED KITE
BLACK KITE
BRAHMINY KITE
PALLAS’S FISH EAGLE
WHITE-TAILED EAGLE
GREY-HEADED FISH EAGLE
CINEREOUS
EGYPTIAN VULTURE
WHITE-RUMPED VULTURE
LONG-BILLED VULTURE
EURASIAN GRIFFON
RED-HEADED VULTURE
SHORT-TOED SNAKE EAGLE
CRESTED SERPENT EAGLE
EURASIAN MARSH HARRIER
PIED HARRIER
HEN RHARRIE
PALLID HARRIER
SHIKRA
BESRA
EURASIAN SPARROWHAWK
NORTHERN GOSHAWK
ORIENTAL HONEY-BUZZARD
WHITE-EYED BUZZARD
COMMON BUZZARD
LONG-LEGGED BUZZARD
LESSER SPOTTED EAGLE
GREATER SPOTTED EAGLE
GOLDEN EAGLE
TAWNY EAGLE
STEPPE EAGLE
IMPERIAL EAGLE
BONELLI’S EAGLE
BOOTED EAGLE
RED KITE
CHANGEABLE HAWK EAGLE
Family FALCONIDAE: Falcons
COMMON KESTREL
RED-NECKED FALCON
MERLIN
EURASIAN HOBBY
ORIENTAL HOBBY
LAGGAR FALCON
SAKER FALCON
PEREGRINE FALCON
Family PODICIPEDIDAE: Grebes
LITTLE GREBE
GREAT CRESTED GREBE
BLACK-NECKED GREBE
Family PHALACROCORACIDAE: Cormorants and Darter
DARTER
LITTLE CORMORANT
INDIAN CORMORANT
GREAT CORMORANT
Family ARDEIDAE: Herons,Egrets,Bitterns
LITTLE EGRET
WESTERN REEF EGRET
GREAT EGRET
INTERMEDIATE EGRET
CATTLE EGRET
INDIAN POND HERON
GREY HERON
PURPLE HERON
LITTLE HERON
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON
YELLOW BITTERN
CINNAMON BITTERN
BLACK BITTERN
GREAT BITTERN
Family PHOENICOPTERIDAE:Flamingoes
GREATER FLAMINGO
LESSER FLAMINGO
FamilyTHRESKIORNITHIDAE :Ibises,Spoonbill
GLOSSY IBIS
BLACK-HEADED IBIS
BLACK IBIS
EURASIAN SPOONBILL
Family PELECANIDAE:Pelicans
GREAT WHITE PELICAN
DALMATIAN PELICAN
SPOT-BILLED PELICAN
Family CICONIIDAE : Storks
PAINTED STORK
ASIAN OPENBILL
WOOLLY-NECKED STORK
WHITE STORK
BLACK STORK
BLACK-NECKED STORK
LESSER ADJUTANT
GREATER ADJUTANT
Family PITTIDAR :Pittas
INDIAN PITTA
Family LANIIDAE :Shrikes
RED-BACKED SHRIKE
RUFOUS-TAILED SHRIKE
BROWN SHRIKE
BAY-BACKED SHRIKE
LONG-TAILED SHRIKE
GREY-BACKED SHRIKE
GREAT GREY SHRIKE
SOUTHERN GREY SHRIKE
Family CORVIDAE :Crows,Magpies,Jays, etc.
RUFOUS TREEPIE
HOUSE CROW
LARGE-BILLED CROW
Family ORIOLIDAE :Orioles
EURASIAN GOLDEN ORIOLE
BLACK-HOODED ORIOLE
Family CAMPEPHAGIDAE :Cuckoo-Shrikes, Minivets
LARGE CUCKOOSHRIKE
BLACK-HEADED CUCKOOSHRIKE
SMALL MINIVET
WHITE-BELLIED MINIVET
SHORT-BILLED MINIVET
LONG-TAILED MINIVET
SCARLET MINIVET
COMMON WOODSHRIKE
Family IRENIDAE :Ioras
COMMON IORA
MARSHALL’S IORA
Family DICRURIDAE : Drongos
BLACK DRONGO
ASHY DRONGO
WHITE-BELLIED DRONGO
SPANGLED DRONGO
Family MUSCICAPIDAE
WHITE-THROATED FANTAIL
WHITE-BROWED FANTAIL
ASIAN PARADISE-FLYCATCHER
RUSTY-TAILED FLYCATCHER
RED-THROATED FLYCATCHER
ULTRAMARINE FLYCATCHER
SLATY-BLUE FLYCATCHER
VERDITER FLYCATCHER
TICKELL’S BLUE FLYCATCHER
NILGIRI FLYCATCHER
BLACK-NAPED MONARCH
GREY-HEADED CANARY FLYCATCHER
BLUE-CAPPED ROCK THRUSH
BLUE ROCK THRUSH
ORANGE-HEADED THRUSH
TICKELL’S THRUSH
GREY-WINGED BLACKBIRD
DARK-THROATED THRUSH
SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT
WHITE-TAILED RUBYTHROAT
BLUETHROAT
ORIENTAL MAGPIE ROBIN
INDIAN ROBIN
BLACK REDSTART
COMMON STONECHAT
PIED BUSHCHAT
JERDON’S BUSHCHAT
GREY BUSHCHAT
BROWN ROCK-CHAT
PIED WHEATEAR
DESERT WHEATEAR
RUFOUS-FRONTED PRINIA
JUNGLE PRINIA
PLAIN PRINIA
ASHY PRINIA
ZITTING CISTICOLA
CETTI’S BUSH WARBLER
LANCEOLATED WARBLER
PADDYFIELD WARBLER
BLYTH’S REED WARBLER
CLAMOROUS REED WARBLER
THICK-BILLED WARBLER
BOOTED WARBLER
GREATER WHITETHROAT
LESSER WHITETHROAT
DESERT WARBLER
ORPHEAN WARBLER
COMMON TAILORBIRD
COMMON CHIFFCHAFF
PLAIN LEAF WARBLER
DUSKY WARBLER
SMOKY WARBLER
TICKELL’S LEAF WARBLER
SULPHUR-BELLIED WARBLER
BROOKS’S LEAF WARBLER
HUME’S WARBLER
YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER
GREENISH WARBLER
TYTLER’S LEAF WARBLER
WESTERN CROWNED WARBLER
BLYTH’S LEAF WARBLER
LONG-BILLED BUSH WARBLER
YELLOW-EYED BABBLER
COMMON BABBLER
LARGE GREY BABBLER
JUNGLE BABBLER
Family ZOSTEROPIDAE :White-eyes
ORIENTAL WHITE-EYE
Family PYCNONOTIDAE :Bulbuls
RED-WHISKERED BULBUL
WHITE-EARED BULBUL
RED-VENTED BULBUL
WHITE-BROWED BULBUL
BLACK BULBUL
Family STURNIDAE :Starlings, Mynas
CHESTNUT-TAILED STARLING
BRAHMINY STARLING
ROSY STARLING
COMMON STARLING
ASIAN PIED STARLING
COMMON MYNA
BANK MYNA
Family SITTIDAE :Nuthatches, Creepers
CHESTNUT-BELLIED NUTHATCH
SPOTTED CREEPER
Family PARIDAE :Tits or Tit-mice
GREAT TIT
Family HIRUNDINIDAE :Swallows
SAND MARTIN
PLAIN MARTIN
DUSKY CRAG MARTIN
BARN SWALLOW
WIRE-TAILED SWALLOW
RED-RUMPED SWALLOW
STREAK-THROATED SWALLOW
Family ALAUDIDAE : Larks
SINGING BUSHLARK
INDIAN BUSHLARK
ASHY-CROWNED SPARROW LARK
RUFOUS-TAILED LARK
DESERT LARK
ASIAN SHORT -TOED LARK
CRESTED LARK
SYKES’S LARK
ORIENTAL SKYLARK
Family DICAEIDAE :Fiowerpeckers
THICK-BILLED FLOWERPECKER
PALE-BILLED FLOWERPECKER
Family NECTARINIIDAE :Sunbirds
PURPLE SUNBIRD
Family PLOCEIDAE :Weaver birds
HOUSE SPARROW
SPANISH SPARROW
CHESTNUT-SHOULDERED PETRONIA
BLACK-BREASTED WEAVER
STREAKED WEAVER
BAYA WEAVER
RED AVADAVAT
INDIAN SILVERBILL
SCALY-BREASTED MUNIA
BLACK-HEADED MUNIA
Family FRINGILLIDAE : Finches
COMMON ROSEFINCH
Family MOTACILLIDAE :Pipits, Wagtails
FOREST WAGTAIL
WHITE WAGTAIL
WHITE-BROWED WAGTAIL
CITRINE WAGTAIL
YELLOW WAGTAIL
GREY WAGTAIL
RICHARD’S PIPIT
PADDYFIELD PIPIT
TAWNY PIPIT
BLYTH’S PIPIT
LONG-BILLED PIPIT
TREE PIPIT
OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT
ROSY PIPIT
WATER PIPIT
Family EMBERIZIDAE :Buntings
CRESTED BUNTING
WHITE-CAPPED BUNTING
CHESTNUT-EARED BUNTING
BLACK-HEADED BUNTING
RED-HEADED BUNTING
HOUSE BUNTING
FIRE-CAPPED TIT
LESSER FISH EAGLE
LIST COURTESY OF ANSAR KHAN AND CHOTU KHAN