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Greater Yellownape Grey-headed Woodpecker Greater Flameback Lineated Barbet Blue-throated Barbet Coppersmith Barbet Great Hornbill Total of c15 Wreathed Hornbill 4 Oriental Pied Hornbill 2 Indian Roller Common Kingfisher White-throated Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher 4 during rafting trip Crested Kingfisher 2 during rafting trip Blue-bearded Bee-eater 2 singles Green Bee-eater Chestnut-headed Bee-eater 3 at the camp Greater Coucal Lesser Coucal Vernal Hanging Parrot 6 Rose-ringed Parakeet Red-breasted Parakeet Common Asian Palm Swift House Swift Brown or Tawny Fish Owl 1 seen briefly, probably Tawny Asian Barred Owlet Heard near the camp Spotted Owlet Heard near the camp Brown Hawk Owl Heard near the camp Large-tailed Nightjar Heard near the camp Oriental Turtle Dove Spotted Dove Red Collared Dove 1 Barred Cuckoo Dove 5 Emerald Dove 2 Green Imperial Pigeon 20+ Common Moorhen Pintail Snipe 3 flushed from dry grass area Greenshank Green Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Ibisbill Group of 6 on the river from the raft Little Ringed Plover River Lapwing 5 during the rafting trip Red-wattled Lapwing Small Pratincole 350 along the river River Tern 1-2 daily Osprey Up to 3 daily Pallas’s Fish Eagle 5 from the raft White-tailed Eagle 1 perched adult seen from the raft 24/1 Northern Goshawk 1 immature 24/1 Common Kestrel Little Cormorant Great Cormorant Little Egret Cattle Egret Indian Pond Heron Lesser Adjutant 1 at a forest pool 25/1 Golden-fronted Leafbird 16 Orange-bellied Leafbird 5, mainly singing males Long-tailed Shrike Grey-backed Shrike Large-billed Crow Black-hooded Oriole Maroon Oriole Large Cuckoo-shrike Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike Long-tailed Minivet Scarlet Minivet Yellow-bellied Fantail Black Drongo Ashy Drongo Bronzed Drongo Hair-crested Drongo Common Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Black-naped Monarch Common Iora Large Woodshrike Blue Rock Thrush 4 along the river Blue Whistling Thrush Black-breasted Thrush 4 singles near the riverbank east of the guard post Grey-winged Blackbird 1 female near the watch-tower on 23/1 Little Pied Flycatcher Red-breasted Flycatcher All those checked were parva Verditer Flycatcher Small Niltava Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher Oriental Magpie Robin Black Redstart 1 female from the rafting trip Daurian Redstart 1 male from the rafting trip White-capped Water-Redstart 5 from the rafting trip Plumbeous Water-Redstart 22 from the rafting trip Black-backed Forktail 1 regular at the forest stream, 4 along the river Siberian Stonechat Spot-winged Starling Common at flowering silk-cotton trees Chestnut-tailed Starling Asian Pied Starling Common Myna Jungle Myna White-vented Myna 5 on fields near the camp Hill Myna Sultan Tit 4 in one group seen twice Plain Martin Barn Swallow Asian House Martin 2 in a mixed hirundine/swift flock on 25/1 Black-crested Bulbul Red-whiskered Bulbul Red-vented Bulbul White-throated Bulbul 6 in two groups Black Bulbul Oriental White-eye Common Tailorbird Dusky Warbler Yellow-browed Warbler Eastern Crowned Warbler 1 Blyth’s Leaf-Warbler 1 Chestnut-crowned Warbler 1 Striated Grassbird Abbott’s Babbler Puff-throated Babbler Striped Tit-Babbler Jerdon’s Babbler 1 flew across river, seen from raft 24/1 Yellow-vented Flowerpecker Plain Flowerpecker Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker Crimson Sunbird Streaked Spiderhunter Often in flowering silk-cotton trees White Wagtail Grey Wagtail Paddyfield Pipit Olive-backed Pipit Kaziranga (26-30 January 2004) (W, C and E refer to the three ranges) Swamp Francolin Common Red Junglefowl Common Kalij Pheasant 5 seen in riverine forest Greater White-fronted Goose 1 adult at Dunga Beel (W) on 30/1 Greylag Goose Bar-headed Goose Common; 2500+ at Dunga Beel 30/1 Ruddy Shelduck Common Shelduck 6 on the R. Brahmaputra off Debeswari on 29/1 Cotton Pygmy-Goose 20 at Sohola Beel (E) 29/1 Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon Mallard Spot-billed Duck Shoveler Pintail Common Teal Common Pochard Ferruginous Duck Tufted Duck White-browed Piculet 1 in bamboo, tea-garden behind Wild Grass Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker Streak-throated Woodpecker Grey-headed Woodpecker Black-rumped Flameback Not listed by Choudhury Greater Flameback Lineated Barbet Blue-throated Barbet Oriental Pied Hornbill Hoopoe Indian Roller Common Kingfisher Stork-billed Kingfisher White-throated Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher Blue-bearded Bee-eater 2 singles Green Bee-eater Green-billed Malkoha Greater Coucal Lesser Coucal Alexandrine Parakeet Rose-ringed Parakeet Blossom-headed Parakeet Largest flock 40+ (W) |
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