Campus: Birds

The ‘festival’ and bird ‘season’ in our parts appears to overlap, as we get ready for both – place below list of species we have come across during our ‘bird walks’,

Many a time I have slowed down my cycle on spotting a bird but then been unable to identify the ‘exact species’; these  moments too have been fun – especially in the drizzle,  

Thanks are due to students and colleagues for joining on many of these walks, Binoculars for Charity for equipment and to Kumar Radhakrishnan for the images, 

Ashy Prinia

Asian Koel

Bank Myna

Barn Swallow

Baya Weaver

Black Drongo

Black Kite

Black Redstart

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-eared Kite

Black-headed Gull

Black-winged Kite

Black-winged Stilt

Bluethroat

Blyth's Reed Warbler

Booted Eagle

Brahminy Starling

Brown Shrike

Brown-headed Barbet

Brown-headed Gull

Cattle Egret

Common Hawk Cuckoo

Common Hoopoe

Common Iora

Common Myna

Common Pigeon

Common Quail

Common Redshank

Common Sandpiper

Common Tailorbird

Coppersmith Barbet

Darter

Eurasian Collared Dove

Great Crested Grebe

Greater Coucal

Greater Spotted Eagle

Green Bee-eater

Green Sandpiper

Greenish Warbler

Grey Francolin

Grey-breasted Prinia

Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher

House Crow

House Sparrow

Indian Golden Oriole

Indian Grey Hornbill

Indian Jungle Crow

Indian Peafowl

Indian Pied Starling

Indian Pond Heron

Indian Roller

Indian Silverbill

Intermediate Egret

Jacobin Cuckoo

Jungle Babbler

Large Grey Babbler

Large-tailed Nightjar

Laughing Dove

Lesser Goldenback

Little Cormorant

Little Egret

Little Ringed Plover

Little Swift

Oriental Magpie Robin

Pied Kingfisher

Plain Martin

Plain Prinia

Plaintive Cuckoo

Purple Sunbird

Red Collared Dove

Red-vented Bulbul

Red-wattled Lapwing

Red-whiskered Bulbul

River Lapwing

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Rosy Starling

Scaly-breasted Munia

Shikra

Spotted Dove

Spotted Owlet

Veriditer Flycatcher

White Wagtail

White-bellied Drongo

White-breasted Waterhen

White-browed Wagtail

White-throated Kingfisher

Wire-tailed Swallow

Yellow Wagtail

Yellow-footed Green Pigeon