CKBS Checklist

Chintamani Kar Bird Sanctuary aka Koyaler Bagan , falls in the outskirts of Kolkata in the Narendrapur locality. Its a hotspot for birds in the city. Every winter reports trickle in of rare winter migrants sighted here. Summer has its own share of rare surprises too. To know more about this fascinating place please visit my post : http://abirdloversjournal.blogspot.com/2014/12/chintamani-kar-bird-santuary-kolkata.html

I have always wanted to make a list of all such birds sighted in CKBS. On insistence of my birding friends, I have undertaken to compile this list from our trips reports, reports from Birding Pals, Birding group updates on facebook and Newspaper reports. Special thanks to Bengal Birds Group for providing reports on rare sightings. Reports of Kolkata's Birding veteran Mr. Shubhankar Patro (sunday watch) have been of immense help.

I hope that I have been successful in including in this list all the known, rare and winter sightings reported so far in CKBS.  I welcome feedbacks of any new sightings that could be included to this list. 

Commonly found (all year round)

1. Asian Koel  
2. Asian Openbill
3. Asian Palm Swift  
4. Asian Pied Starling  
5. Black Drongo  
6. Black Kite   
7. Black-hooded Oriole  
8. Black-rumped Flameback  
9. Blue-throated Barbet  
10. Bronzed Drongo  
11. Cattle Egret  
12. Chestnut-tailed Starling  
13. Common Hawk Cuckoo  
14. Common Iora  
15. Common Kingfisher
16. Common Myna  
17. Common Tailorbird  
18. Coppersmith Barbet  
19. Eastern Jungle Crow  
20. Eurasian Collared Dove  
21. Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker  
22. Great Tit  
23. Greater Coucal 
24. Greater Flameback  
25. Green Bee-eater  
26. House Crow  
27. House Sparrow  
28. Indian Pond Heron  
29. Jungle Babbler  
30. Jungle Myna  
31. Large-tailed Nightjar,
32. Lineated Barbet  
33. Little Cormorant  
34. Little Swift [ Apus affinis ]  
35. Oriental Honey-buzzard,
36. Oriental Magpie Robin  
37. Plum-headed Parakeet,
38. Purple Sunbird  
39. Purple-rumped Sunbird  
40. Red-vented Bulbul  
41. Red-whiskered Bulbul  
42. Rock Pigeon  
43. Rose-ringed Parakeet  
44. Rufous Treepie  
45. Shikra  
46. Spotted Dove  
47. Stork-billed Kingfisher  
48. White-breasted Waterhen  
49. White-throated Fantail,
50. White-throated Kingfisher  
51. Yellow-footed Green Pigeon  

Less common sightings: (Spotted on and off - if you’re lucky /in winter)

1. Ashy Drongo, winter migrant
2. Ashy Wood swallow  
3. Asian Paradise Flycatcher (winter visitor)
4. Barn Swallow, winter migrant  
5. Black Napped Monarch
6. Black-naped Oriole
7. Black-naped Oriole (winter migrant)
8. Blue throated Flycatcher (winter visitor)
9. Blyth’s Reed Warbler (winter migrant)
10. Bronzed Drongo
11. Brown Fish Owl
12. Brown Shrike
13. Common Hoopoe (winter migrant)
14. Emerald Dove
15. Greenish Warbler (winter migrant)
16. Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher (winter migrant)
17. Jerdon's Leafbird
18. Orange-headed Thrush (winter visitor)
19. Oriental White-eye
20. Pale-billed Flowerpecker
21. Plain Prinia
22. Slaty-legged Crake
23. Small Minivet
24. Spangled Drongo (winter migrant)
25. Taiga Flycatcher (winter migrant)
26. Verditer Flycatcher (winter visitor)
27. White Wagtail, leucopsis subspecies, winter migrant
28. Yellow-browed Warbler, winter migrant

 Rare Sightings:

1. Violet Cuckoo (By Anirban Pal, 7.12.14, Ref: The Telegraph, Dec 18, 2014)
2. Chestnut-winged Cuckoo (by Srikumar Bose, April, 2014, ref: Bengal Birds )
3. Indian Pitta (By Shantanu Mohapatra,April 2012, Ref Bengal Birds, )
4. Eyebrowed thrush (by Srikumar Bose-18.4.09, ref: Bengal birds, Shubhankar Patro)

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)