Mangalojodi Check list

WATERFOWLS

Geese:

Greylag Goose (Anser Anser)

Bar Headed Goose (Anser indicus)

Ducks:

Ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)

Spot Billed Duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)

Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)

Northern Shoveler(Anas clypeata)

WADERS:

Godwit:

Black tailed godwit (Limosa limosa)

Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)

Black winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)

Sandpipers:

Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus)

Common Redshank (Tringa totanus)

Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis)

Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)

Wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola)

Common sandpiper  (Actitis hypoleucos)

Jacanas:

Bronze winged jacana (Metopidius indicus)

Pheasant tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus)

Stints:

Little stint (Calidris minuta)

Temminck’s stint (Calidris temminckii)

Pratincoles and plovers:

Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum)

Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva)

Long billed plover (Charadrius placidus)

Little Ringed Plover(Charadrius dubius)

Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)

Gulls and Terns

Brown headed gull (Larus brunnicephalus)

Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybridus)

River Tern (Sterna aurantia)

WETLAND BIRDS

Grebes:

Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)

Rails, crakes and other rallids:

Slaty breasted rail (Gallirallus striatus)

White breasted waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus)

Baillon’s crake (Porzana pusilla)

Ruddy breasted crake (Porzana fusca)

Watercock (Gallicrex cinerea)

Purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio)

Common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)

Snipes:

Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago)

Jack snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus)

Lapwings:

Grey Headed Lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)

Red wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus)

Cormorants:

Little Cormorant (Phalacrocorax niger)

Greater Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

Egrets:

Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)

Great Egret (Casmerodius albus)

Intermediate  egret (Mesophoyx intermedia)

Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)

Bitterns:

Yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis)

Cinnamon bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus)

Black Bittern (Dupetor flavicollis)

Herons:

Pond heron (Ardeola grayii)

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)

Purple heron ( Ardea purpurea)

Wagtails:

Grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)

Citrine Wagtail (Motacilla citreola)

Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)

CORACIIFORMES

Kingfishers:

Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

White throated kingfisher (Halcyon pileata)

Pied King Fisher (Ceryle rudis)

Hoopoe: 

Hoopoe (Upupa epops)

Bee-eaters

Green Bee-eater (Merops orientalis)

RAPTORS:

Kites:

Black Kite (Milvus migrans)

Brahmini Kite (Haliastur indus)

Harriers:

Eurasian Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginous)

Eagles:

Booted Eagle (Aquila pennata)

LAND BIRDS

Drongos:

Black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)

Chats:

Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)

Common stonechat (Saxicola torquata)

Mynas:

Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)

Jungle Myna (Acridotheres fuscus)

Asian pied Starling (Sturnus contra)

Larks:

Crested Lark  (Galerida cristata)

Ashy crowned sparrow lark (Eremopterix grisea)

Bengal Bushlark (Mirafra assamica)

Warblers:

Blyth’s Reed warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum)

Clamorous reed warbler (Acrocephalus stentoreus)

Greenish warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides)