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Assam, India, January 21-30, 2004
Nameri and Kaziranga National Parks
Steve Lister and Megan Hall

Red-breasted Parakeet

Asian Palm Swift

Asian Barred Owlet                        Up to 3 seen daily

Spotted Owlet

Jungle Owlet                                   1 (E)

Oriental Turtle Dove                       Single flock of 80 (C)

Spotted Dove

Red Collared Dove

Eurasian Collared Dove

Emerald Dove

Pompadour Green Pigeon            1 on the edge of Panbari RF

 
 
Yellow-footed Green Pigeon

Green Imperial Pigeon

Bengal Florican                           2 immature males in short grass at Debeswari 29/1

White-breasted Waterhen

Common Moorhen

Common Snipe

Spotted Redshank                        Mainly at Sohola Beel (E), up to 60

Marsh Sandpiper                         2 at Dunga Beel (W) on 30/1

Greenshank

Green Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

Temminck’s Stint                       12 at Dunga Beel (W) on 30/1

Dunlin                                         1 at Dunga Beel (W) on 30/1: new for the park list

Bronze-winged Jacana

Great Thick-knee                        2  on sandy riverbed on way to Debeswari 29/1

Pacific Golden Plover                 20 (C) on 26/1

Little Ringed Plover

Northern Lapwing

River Lapwing

Grey-headed Lapwing               Common around beels

Red-wattled Lapwing

River Tern

Whiskered Tern

Osprey

Crested Honey Buzzard

Pallas’s Fish Eagle

Grey-headed Fish Eagle

White-rumped Vulture              1

Slender-billed Vulture               5

Eurasian Griffon                        1

Short-toed Snake-Eagle             1 near Debeswari 29/1

Crested Serpent Eagle

Western Marsh Harrier              1 juvenile at Sohola Beel (E)

Eastern Marsh Harrier               1 female at Sohola Beel (E)

Hen Harrier                                1 male at Sohola Beel (E), 2 females at Dunga Beel

Pied Harrier                                1 male at Sohola Beel (E)

Shikra

Indian Spotted Eagle                  4 singles (C,E)

Changeable Hawk Eagle

Common Kestrel

Peregrine Falcon                        1 immature (W) and 1 adult (E)

Little Grebe

Great Crested Grebe                  4 on the R. Brahmaputra at Debeswari 29/1

Darter

Little Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Little Egret

Grey Heron

Purple Heron

Great Egret

Intermediate Egret

Cattle Egret

Indian Pond Heron

Striated Heron

Great White Pelican                1 in the Spot-billed Pelican colony on 29/1 (E)

Spot-billed Pelican                  Common, nesting (E)

Asian Openbill

Woolly-necked Stork

Black-necked Stork

Lesser Adjutant                       Up to 14 daily

Greater Adjutant                      1-2 daily

Golden-fronted Leafbird

Brown Shrike

Long-tailed Shrike

Grey-backed Shrike   

Common Green Magpie        1 in the tea gardens behind Wild Grass

Rufous Treepie

Large-billed Crow

Black-hooded Oriole

Large Cuckoo-shrike

Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike

Ashy Minivet                           4 in a minivet flock on 26/1 (C): new for the park list

Long-tailed Minivet

Short-billed Minivet

Scarlet Minivet

Black Drongo

Ashy Drongo

Bronzed Drongo

Hair-crested Drongo

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Common Iora

Common Woodshrike

Blue Rock Thrush                   1 male on 30/1 (W)

Orange-headed Thrush            3 singles

Black-breasted Thrush            1 male on 29/1 (E)

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Little Pied Flycatcher 

Verditer Flycatcher

Large Niltava                          1 male (E)

Small Niltava

Rufous-bellied Niltava            1 male on 27/1 (E): new for the park list

Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher

Bluethroat                               1 male from elephant back 26/1

Oriental Magpie Robin

White-rumped Shama

Daurian Redstart                           1 male in tea gardens behind Wild Grass

White-tailed Robin                        2 singles (E,W)

Siberian Stonechat

Grey Bushchat                               1 male 30/1 (W)

Spot-winged Starling

Chestnut-tailed Starling

Asian Pied Starling

Common Myna

Bank Myna

Jungle Myna

White-vented Myna

Great Tit

Sand Martin

Plain Martin

Barn Swallow

Red-rumped Swallow

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Red-vented Bulbul

White-throated Bulbul

Black Bulbul

Zitting Cisticola

Oriental White-eye

Paddyfield Warbler                           1 at Debeswari 29/1

Common Tailorbird

Dusky Warbler

Tickell’s Leaf-Warbler

Yellow-browed Warbler

White-spectacled Warbler                  1 on 27/1 (C)

Striated Grassbird

White-crested Laughingthrush           Tea gardens

Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush     Tea gardens

Rufous-necked Laughingthrush         Tea gardens

Abbott’s Babbler

Puff-throated Babbler

White-browed Scimitar-Babbler        Tea gardens

Rufous-capped Babbler                      Heard only, tea gardens

Striped Tit-Babbler

Striated Babbler

Black-breasted Parrotbill                    2 in tall reeds near Debeswari on 27/1

Bengal Bushlark

Ruby-cheeked Sunbird                        Panbari RF, (E)

Crimson Sunbird

House Sparrow

White Wagtail

Citrine Wagtail

Yellow Wagtail

Richard’s Pipit

Blyth’s Pipit                                        Singles from the elephant and at Debeswari

Olive-backed Pipit                              Common in wooded areas

Rosy Pipit                                            Common in short grass areas

Baya Weaver

White-rumped Munia

Casual observations elsewhere

Greater Adjutant                  8 in Guwahati 21/1

                                         12 nests in a colony visible from the main road on the western edge of Nagaon 22/1

 

 

Lesser Adjutant                   1 nest and 6 birds in a roadside tree east of Nagaon 22/1

Eurasian Griffon                  14 at a carcass west of Nagaon 22/1

Asian Openbill                     170 in trees west of Nagaon 31/1        

Contact

S M Lister and M C Hall
31 Lisle Street, Loughborough, LE11 1AW, England
stevelister@surfbirder.com

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Bird photographs by Yashodhan Bhatia,

Ronald Saldino,  Niels Poul Dryer, Ketil Knudsen
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