BIRDS OF BHARATPUR – CHECK LIST Family PHASIANIDAE: Pheasants, Partridges, Quail Check List 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 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 .