Thanks and cheers to all the Ahmedabad Bird Watchers.
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List of Birds :
1. Grey Francolin,
2. Indian Peafowl,
3. Greylag Goose,
4. Brahminy Duck,
5. Bar headed Goose,
6. Common Shelduck,
7. Comb Duck,
8. Euresion Weigion,
9. Spot billed Duck,
10. Common Teal,
11. Cotton Pygmy-goose,
12. Mallard,
13. Northern Pintail,
14. Common Shelduck (8 birds on 4h Dec 08)
15. Northern Shoveler,
16. Gadwal,
17. Garganey,
18. Common Pochard,
19. Tufted Duck,
20. Ferruginous Pochard / White Eyed Pochard,
21. Common Hoope,
22. Indian roller,
23. European Roller,
24. Common Kingfisher,
25. Pied Kingfisher,
26. White Throated Kingfisher,
27. Little Green Bee Eater,
28. Blue Cheeked Bee Eater,
29. Greater Coucal,
30. Pied Crested Cuckoo
31. Hawk Cuckoo,
32. Eurasian cuckoo,
33. Asian Koel,
34. Sirkeer Malkoha / Sirkeer Cuckoo,
35. Rose Ringed Parakeet,
36. Plum headed Parakeet,
37. House Swift,
38. Blue rock Pigeon,
39. Yellow Footed Green Pegeon,
40. Euresion Collared Dove,
41. Laughing Dove,
42. Spotted Dove,
43. Red Collared Dove,
44. White Breasted Waterhen,
45. Sarus Crane,
46. Common Crane,
47. Demoiselle Crane – (I have not seen them this year)
48. Purple Swarmphen,
49. Common Moorhen,
50. Common Coot,
51. Painted Sandgrouse,
52. Chestnut Bellied Sandgrouse,
53. Wood Sandpiper,
54. Common Sandpiper,
55. Black Tailed Godwit,
56. Eurasian Curlew,
57. Common Redshank,
58. Ruff,
59. Pied Avocet,
60. Pheasant Tailed Jacana,
61. Bronze Winged Jacana,
62. Red Wattled Lapwing,
63. Yellow Wattled Lapwing,
64. White Tailed Lapwing,
65. Eurasian Thick knee,
66. Collared Prantincole,
67. Black winged Stilt,
68. Indian River Tern,
69. Whiskered Tern,
70. Black Kite,
71. Black Winged Kite / Black Shouldered Kite,
72. Black Eared Kite,
73. Egyptian vulture,
74. Eurasian Griffon Vulture,
75. White Backed Vulture,
76. Cinereous vulture,
77. Long Billed Vulture,
78. Short Toed Snake Eagle,
79. Crested Serpent Eagle,
80. Red Necked Falcon,
81. Common Kestrel,
82. Honey Buzzard,
83. Eurasian Marsh Harrier,
84. Shikara,
85. Eurasian Sparrow hawk,
86. Greater Spotted Eagel,
87. Imperial Eagle,
88. Tawny Eagle,
89. White eyed Buzzard,
90. Bonneli’s Eagle,
91. Booted Eagle,
92. Little Greebe,
93. Little Egret,
94. Cattle Egret,
95. Intermediate Egret,
96. Indian Pond Heron,
97. Grey Heron,
98. Night Heron,
99. Purple Heron,
100. Greater Flamingo,
101. Lesser Flamingo ( only one bird seen on 24th Jan 09 )
102. Black Headed Ibis,
103. Black Ibis,
104. Glossy Ibis,
105. Painted Stork,
106. Open Bill Stork,
107. Wooly Necked Stork,
108. Eurasian Spoonbill,
109. Great White Pelican,
110. Long tailed Shrike,
111. Grey Shrike,
112. Bay Backed Shrike,
113. Rufous Tailed Shrike,
114. House Crow,
115. Jungle Crow,
116. Black Drongo,
117. Indian Robin,
118. Magpie Robin,
119. Common Stonechat,
120. Pied Bush Chat,
121. Rosy Starling,
122. Common Starling,
123. Common Myna,
124. Bank Myna,
125. Brahminy Myna,
126. Red Rumped Swallow,
127. Common Swallow / Barn Swallow,
128. Red Vented Bulbul,
129. Plain Prinia,
130. Ashy Prinia,
131. Common Chiffchaff,
132. Zitting Cisticola,
133. Clamorous Reed Warbler,
134. Common Babbler,
135. Jungle Babbler,
136. Large Grey Babbler,
137. Ashy Crowned finch Lark,
138. Purple Sunbird,
139. House Sparrow,
140. White Wagtail,
141. Yellow Wagtail,
142. Grey Wagtail,
143. Red Munia,
144. Blue Throat,
145. Spotted Owlet,
146. Collard Scoops Owl,
147. Barred Buttonquail,
148. Shag,
149. Euresian Wryneck,
150. Brown Capped Pigmy Woodpecker,
151. Black-rumped flameback,
152. Coppersmith Barbet,
153. Tawny Bellied Babbler,
154. Common Iora,
155. Common Woodshrike,
156. Small Minivet,
157. White Throated Fantail Flycatcher,
158. Tickel’s Blue Flycatcher,
159. Grey headed Canary Flycatcher,
160. Black Redstart,
161. White eye,
162. Lesser White Throat,
163. Common Tailor Bird,
164. Darter,
165. Black Breasted Weaver bird,
166. Baya weaver
167. Eurasian Griffon Vulture
168. Steppe Eagle
169. Peregrine Falcon
170. Dalmatian Pelican
171. Rufous Tailed Lark
172. Citrine Wagtail
173. Little Cormorant
174. Great Cormorant
175. Osprey
176. Orphean Warbler
177. Marsh Sandpiper
178. Green Sandpiper
179. Little Stint
180. Teminick's Stint
181. Little Ringed Plover
182. Kentish Plover
183. Richard's Pipit
184. Indian Spotted Eagle
185. Grey Breasted Prinia
183. Richard's Pipit
184. Indian Spotted Eagle
185. Grey Breasted Prinia
