This is an ongoing project to document the avifauna of the campus. The current checklist stands at 58 species. Click on the bird's name to see its picture. [WM = winter migrant] I have made this checklist after a year of observing the birds on campus. Many observations are seasonal, like the Common Hawk Cuckoo, heard during summer and early rains, the Golden Oriole, observed in summer and the warblers during the winter months. Some water birds that often fly past the campus like the Black headed Ibis and Great Cormorant are also recorded. Most of the rest are resident birds here, seen throughout the year.
- Yellow billed Babbler
- Large Grey Babbler
- Coppersmith Barbet
- Green Bee eater
- Redvented Bulbul
- Pied Bushchat
- Zittting Cisticola
- Great Cormorant
- Greater Coucal
- Large billed Crow
- Spotted Dove
- Laughing Dove
- Black Drongo
- Cattle Egret
- Little Egret
- Pale billed Flowerpecker
- Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
- Grey Francolin
- Indian Pond Heron
- Black crowned Night Heron
- Common Hoopoe
- Black headed Ibis
- Common Iora
- Indian Roller
- White throated Kingfisher
- Black Kite
- Brahminy Kite
- Asian Koel
- Red Wattled Lapwing
- Magpie Robin
- Small Minivet
- Scaly Bellied Munia
- Common Myna
- Brahminy Starling
- Golden Oriole
- Barn Owl
- Spotted Owlet
- Rose ringed Parakeet
- Blue Rock Pigeon
- Ashy Prinia
- Plain Prinia
- Grey breasted Prinia
- Indian Robin
- Shikra
- Long tailed Shrike
- House Sparrow
- Purple rumped Sunbird
- Purple Sunbird
- Barn Swallow (WM)
- House Swift
- Common Tailorbird
- Rufous Treepie
- White browed Wagtail
- Booted Warbler (WM)
- Blyth's Reed Warbler (WM)
- Black shouldered Kite
- Common Hawk Cuckoo
- Indian Silverbill
- Grey bellied Cuckoo
- White browed Bulbul
- Oriental Honey Buzzard
- Common Grey Hornbill
26 comments:
Really good work
hey, how do you determine the exact species once you've seen a bird, or you have a photograph?
i've been observing butterflies for a long time now. but never got down to these details.
its worth all the hard work u have put in..[:)] keep up the good work....
Its awesome work... now we can have details instead of just word of "woww" when we spot a bird in the college campus.....
GREAT!!!! ...you have really done
a great job.
Thanks and Congrats for your efforts.
Cool stuff.. never thought that iiit had such good stuff.. keep up the good work and keep the stuff updated too :)
Wild life at IIITH captured on this blog.
From now on if someone sees a bird he can come here and know it's details.
Really great.
@ sankalp : There are various ways to identify, usually we start with field guides. Several are available in the market for Indian birds.
Once you have a field guide, you go out and observe the bird/butterfly carefully. The size, colouration, behaviour and call (in the case of birds) are indicators to identify the family & then narrow down to species level.
@ everyone else : thanks for the comments. Maybe there could be a wildlife walk organised on campus & you all could actually see some of the birds.
Gusshow!
Hey , really a good work. Just one thing to ask , can you recognize a bird (which species) just by seeing it?
Great work of research!!
I didnt know that there are such a larg variety of birds chirping around here .....
btw those pics are awsome!!
First of all...the pictures...ultimate.
Now we can have a look at a bird and say that yes!! this is the one that was there in the list.
Really good work...keep it up.
@ richeek: yes, like I mentioned above, by looking at the various aspects of a bird's plumage, size and call and with the help of a bird guide it is possible to identify.
@piyush & amol : thanks. The links that go outside the blog take you to the oriental bird images database. Pics there are taken by photographers contributing to the database. Pics on this blog are taken by me. I will upload more as I get time.
never knew that i have such wide variety of birds in IIIT ...
u truly deserve word of praise
when will get to know abt more creatures , m paricularly intesrested in snakes
Just amazing! How/when do you do all this birdwatching? Can I join you sometime?
Just amazing! How/when do you do all this birdwatching? Can I join you sometime?
@ shrikant: More pics coming up as I get some time to write up. I can assure you one snake photo :p
@myself: You are welcome to join anytime fr birding!
nice.. work
i used to watch these bird but never thought about finding their details........ it is really a good work.
well hats off to your work ...
Superb work! BTW, Is there any similar checklist for IIT Mumbai?
o boy...now this list is really unbelievable....didn't know that IIIT is home to such exotic species...But how do you search for all these fauna in the IIIT jungles(:P)....I have seen a few of the species listed...but most of them I believe would be hard to,like how did you come to know about the nocturnal ones??
Great Work!
I do some unprofessional bird watching too...hope this will be useful
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/pparimi/checklist.html
Is that a Prinia in the display pic?
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