remember our post on birds of pR back in 2011? well, the willing bird lover arrived in the form of our friend Sridhar with a brand new dslr! we set out at day break and dusk on
couple of days and came home with these.
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1) Painted stork |
2) golden oriole |
3) little green bee eater |
3) little green bee eater - eating dragonfly |
4) loten's sunbird - female |
5) orphean warbler or plain prinia? not sure please help! |
6) Jerdon's bushlark |
7) ashy prinia |
7) ashy prinia - singing |
8) Pied bushchat - male |
8) pied bushchat - female |
9) pied crested cuckoo |
10) plaintive cuckoo |
10) plaintive cuckoo - another view |
11) red headed falcon |
6) Jerdon's bushlark |
6) Jerdon's Bushlark
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13) small green billed malkhoa |
14) spotted dove |
15) spotted owlet |
16) white browed bulbul |
17) silverbill or white throated munia |
18) white breasted kingfisher |
19) red vented bulbul |
20) magpie robin |
21) cattle egret - female - breeding |
22) indian robin - male |
23) Common Iora - male and female |
23) Common Iora - female |
23) Common Iora - male & female |
24) koel - female |
25) lesser goldenbacked woodpecker |
26) crimson breaster barbet aka coppersmith |
27) crow pheasant or greater coucal |
28) black drongo |
29) forest wagtail |
30) baya weaver - female |
31) indian roller or blue jay |
32) brahminy mynah |
32) brahminy mynah |
33) hoopoe |
Thanks again to sridhar for taking these fantastic pictures and to siddharth for quick spotting.
Here are a few more species spotted by us regularly but not captured in camera. we will update this post as and when sridhar visits us again and shoots a few more pictures. A couple in (?) are the ones that only one of us have spotted. They will be confirmed with more sightings.
Here are a few more species spotted by us regularly but not captured in camera. we will update this post as and when sridhar visits us again and shoots a few more pictures. A couple in (?) are the ones that only one of us have spotted. They will be confirmed with more sightings.
34) common babbler
35) blue rock pigeon
36) yellow wattled lapwing
37) red wattled lapwing
38) white breasted water hen
39) watercock aka kora (?)
40) indian peafowl
41) grey francolin
42) black shouldered kite
43) shikra
44) montague/pale harrier
45) white browed wagtail
46) common mynah
47) jungle crow
48) palm swift
49) ashy woodswallow
50) roufus tree pie
51) brain fever bird
52) pond heron
53) little egret
54) black headed munia
55) white rumped munia (?)
56) purple sunbird
57) purple rumped sunbird
58) rose ringed parakeet
59) eurasian collared dove