Bird Watch update - 40 avian species spotted!

Date: Sat, Nov 12, 2011

Please see the latest message from our "resident bird specialist", Srinivas, from Puttenahalli.

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All:

Please check out my updated album on the birds of Puttenahalli lake.

There are several new additions to the lake: Grey wagtail (Winter migrant); Barn swallow (Winter migrant); Grey-headed mynah (winter migrant); Blyth's reed warbler (Winter migrant); Grey heron; Common moorhen; Plain prinia, among other species.

We have about forty avian species in the lake now.

Checklist:

Picidae: White-naped woodpecker

Sylvidae: Blyth's reed warbler.

Motacillidae: White-browed wagtail; grey wagtail

Accipitridae: Black kite, Brahminy kite, Shikra

Strigidae: Spotted owlet; mottled wood owl

Tytonidae: Barn owl

Hirundinidae: Barn swallow

Apodidae: House swift

Podicipidae: Little grebe

Rallidae: Common coot, purple moorhen, common moorhen

Halcyonidae: White-breasted kingfisher

Ardeidae: :Purple heron; Grey heron; Pond heron; cattle egret; median egret; small egret.

Anatidae: Spot-billed duck; Lesser whistling duck (visitors)

Phalacrocoracidae: Great cormorant; Small cormorant; Indian Shag.

Jacanidae: Bronze-winged jacana; Pheasant-tailed jacana

Cisticolidae: Ashy prinia; Plain prinia

Estrilididae: Scaly breasted munia.

Nectarinidae: Purple-rumped sunbird

Paridae: Great tit.

Psittacidae: Rose-ringed parakeet

Sturnidae: Grey-headed mynah (winter migrant); Common mynah; Jungle mynah

Cheers ... Srini.

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