Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary_April 2017

Date: 11th April 2017 – 15th April 2017

Habitat: Montane Forest. Broad-leaf. Riverine. Alluvial. Cultivation Land. Human Habitat.

Temperature Range: 17°C ~ 32°C

Altitude Range: 1,500' to 7,200' (from MSL) in Latpanchar, Ahaldara, Mana, Mahananda Buffer, Senchal and adjacent area in Darjeeling district of West Bengal,

Bird Checklist (As per of Indian Subcontinent field guide by Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp):

1. Hill Partridge [H] 2. Himalayan Vulture 3. Eurasian Sparrowhawk 4. Mountain Hawk Eagle 5. Crested Serpent Eagle 6. Spotted Dove 7. Common Pigeon 8. Barred Cuckoo Dove 9. Mountain Imperial Pigeon 10. Large Hawk Cuckoo 11. Oriental Cuckoo (Himalayan) 12. Emrald Cuckoo 13. Banded Bay Cuckoo 14. Greater Coucal 15. Mountain Scops Owl 16. Asian Barred Owlet 17. House Swift 18. Rufous-necked Hornbill 19. Great Barbet 20. Blue-throated Barbet 21. Greater Yellownape 22. Lesser Yellownape 23. Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker 24. Bay Woodpecker 25. Grey-headed Woodpecker 26. Long-tailed Broadbill 27. Large Woodshrike 28. Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike 29. Grey-chinned Minivet 30. 31. Short-billed Minivet 1

Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary_April 2017

32. Bronze Drongo 33. Black Drongo 34. Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo 35. Maroon Oriole 36. White-throated Fantail 37. Common Green Magpie 38. Grey Treepie 39. Large-billed Crow 40. Green-backed Tit 41. Black-lored Tit 42. Sultan Tit 43. Barn Swallow 44. Striated Bulbul 45. Himalayan Bulbul 46. Black-crested Bulbul 47. Black Bulbul 48. Red-vented Bulbul 49. Black-throated Prinia 50. Common Tailorbird 51. Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler 52. Grey-sided Bush Warbler 53. Slaty-bellied Tesia 54. Tickell’s Leaf Warbler 55. Buff-barred Warbler 56. Lemon-rumped Warbler 57. Mandellie’s Leaf Warbler 58. Yellow-vented Warbler 59. Yellow-bellied Warbler 60. Broad-billed Warbler 61. Whistler’s Warbler 62. Grey-hooded Warbler 63. Chestnut-crowned Warbler 64. Grey-throated Babbler 65. White-browed Scimitar Babbler 66. Rusty-Cheeked Scimitar Babbler 67. White-crested Laughingthrush 68. Rufous-necked Laughingthrush 69. Striated Laughingthrush 70. Scaly Laughingthrush 71. Rusty-fronted Barwing 72. Chestnut-crowned Laughingthrush

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Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary_April 2017

73. Silver-eared Mesia 74. Red-billed Leiothrix 75. Himalayan Cutia 76. Red-tailed Minala 77. Blue-winged Siva 78. Bar-throated Minla 79. White-browed Shrike-babbler 80. Rufous-winged 81. Fulvetta 82. Rufous Sibia 83. White-bellied Erpornis 84. Black-chinned Yuhina 85. Whiskered Yuhina 86. White-naped Yuhina 87. Oriental White-eye 88. White-tailed Nuthatch 89. Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch 90. Brown-throated Treecreeper 91. Common Myna 92. Chestnut-tailed Starling 93. Blue Whistling Thrush 94. Orange-headed Thrush 95. Scaly Thrush 96. Grey-winged Blackbird 97. Red-throated Thrush 98. Black-throated Thrush 99. Grey Bushchat 100. Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush 101. Blue-capped Rock Thrush 102. Taiga Flycatcher 103. Little Pied Flycatcher 104. Pale Blue Flycatcher 105. Verditar Flycatcher 106. Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher 107. Small Niltava 108. Orange-bellied Leafbird 109. Fire-breasted Flowerpecker 110. Black-throated Sunbird 111. Streaked Spiderhunter 112. Eurasian Treesparrow 113. Red Crossbill

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Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary_April 2017

114. Little Bunting 115. Grey Wagtail 116. Olive-backed Pipit

Mammal checklist (as per the Indian Mammals | A Field Guide by Vivek Menon):

1. Asiatic Elephant 2. Barking Deer 3. Rhesus Macaque 4. Hoary-bellied Squirrel

Participants:

1. Dibyendu Ash (L) 2. Juee Khopkar 3. Rajashree 4. Vinodh Ve 5. Shiva

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