IIT Kanpur Resident Aves

IIT Kanpur (Campus ONLY; Bithoor etc. excluded)-

(IITK campus complete check list is available here. But it was compiled long back, so many of birds mentioned there are not seen in campus. This is the list of birds we(Sainath and I) spotted recently.)

1. Indian Peafowl
   
2. Lesser Whistling Duck
   
3. Comb Duck
   
4. Spot Billed Duck
   
5. Cotton Pygmy Goose(Cotton Teal)
   
6. Northern Pintail
   
7. Black-Rumped Flameback(Golden Flamebck)
   
8. Brown Headed Barbet
   
9. Coppersmith
   
10. Indian Gray Hornbill
    
11. Common Hoopoe
    
12. Indian Roller
    
13. White Throated Kingfisher
    
14. Pied Kingfisher
    
15. Common Kingfisher
    
16. Green Bee-eater
    
17. Blue Tailed Bee-eater
    
18. Common Hawk Cuckoo(Brainfever)
    
19. Asian Koel
    
20. Greater Coucal
    
21. Rose Ringed Parakeet
    
22. Plum Headed Parakeet
    
23. Eurasian Eagle Owl
    
24. Mottled Wood Owl
    
25. Spotted Owlet
    
26. Rock Pigeon
    
27. Laughing Dove
    
28. Spotted Dove
    
29. Eurasian Collared Dove
    
30. Yellow Footed Green Pigeon
    
31. Sarus Crane
    
32. White Breasted Waterhen
    
33. Common Moorehen
    
34. Marsh Sandpiper
    
35. Green Sandpiper
    
36. Wood Sandpiper
    
37. Eurasian Thick-knee
    
38. Black Winged Stilt
    
39. Pheasant tailed Jacna
    
40. Yellow Wattled Lapwing
    
41. Red Wattled Lapwing
    
42. Black Shouldered Kite
    
43. Black Kite
    
44. Brahminy Kite(not confirmed)
    
45. Egyptian Vulture
    
46. Marsh Harrier
    
47. Shikra
    
48. Oriental Honey Buzzard
    
49. Little Grebe
    
50. Great Cormorant
    
51. Little Cormorant
    
52. Intermediate Egret
    
53. Cattle Egret
    
54. Indian Pond Heron
    
55. Great Egret
    
56. Grey Heron
    
57. Purple Heron
    
58. Black Crowned Night Heron
    
59. Black Ibis
    
60. Painted Stork
    
61. Asian Openbill
    
62. Woolly-Necked Stork
    
63. Long Tailed Shrike(plz. confirm)
    
64. Rufous Treepie or Indian Treepie
    
65. House Crow
    
66. Eurasian Golden Oriole
    
67. Large Cuckoosrke
    
68. Black Drongo
    
69. BlueThroat
    
70. Oriental Magpie Robin
    
71. Indian Robin
    
72. Black Redstart
    
73. Brown Rock Chat
    
74. Pied Bushchat
    
75. Brahminy Starling
    
76. Asian Pied Starling
    
77. Common Myna
    
78. Bank Myna
    
79. Brown Winged Starling(Aplonis grandis)
    
80. Wire Tailed Swallow
    
81. Plain Martin(plz. confirm)
    
82. Red Rumped Swallow
    
83. Red Whiskered Bulbul
    
84. Red Vented Bulbul
    
85. Plain Prinia
    
86. Ashy Prinia
    
87. Zitting Cisticola
    
88. Jungle Babbler
    
89. Sand Lark
    
90. Crested Lark
    
91. Purple Sunbird
    
92. House Sparrow
    
93. Chestnut-Shouldered Petronia
    
94. Citrine Wagtail
    
95. Yellow Wagtail
    
96. Grey Wagtail
    
97. White Browed Wagtail
    
98. White Wagtail
    
99. Black Headed Weaver
    
100. Indian Silverbill
     
101. Scaly Breasted Munia
     
102. Black Headed Munia
     
103. Common Rosefinch

Please add the missed ones and correct the wrong ids.

Kanha National Park, March 2009

Bird Sightings

1. Indian Treepie

2. Black Drongo

3. Coppersmith Barbet

4. Black Shouldered Kite

5. Common Crow

6. Jungle Crow

7. Little Egret

8. Black Rumped Flameback

9. Black Hooded Oriole

10. Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

11. Inidan Roller

12. Spotted Dove

13. Oriental Magpie Robin

14. House Sparrow

15. Greater Coucal

16. Lesser Coucal

17. Rose ringed Parakeet

18. Plum headed Parakeet

19. Large Cuckooshrike

20. White Rumped Shama

21. Jungle Owlet

22. Oriental Honey Buzzard

23. Blue winged Leafbird

24. Black Ibis

25. White Eyed Buzzard

26. Turtle Dove

27. Long Tailed Shrike

28. Scarlet Minivet

29. Grey Indian Hornbill

30. Shikra

31. White Bellied Drongo

32. Grandala

33. Common Stonechat

34. Blue-capped Rock Thrush

35. Changeable Hawk Eagle

36. Sirkeer Malkoha

37. Indian Peafowl

38. Common Myna

39. Red Wattled Lapwing

40. Yellow Wattled Lapwing

41. Brown Headed Barbet

42. Red Jungle Fowl

43. White Rumped Flameback

Animal Sightings

1. Tiger

2. Leopard

3. Wild Boar

4. Sambhar

5. Spotted Deer

6. Jungle Cat

7. Barasingha

8. Gaur

9. Langur

10. Rheus Macau

11. Indian Hare

12. Jackal

13. Mongoose

Samanvaya and Abhinav visited. Hired a guide named A K Singh.

The place is damn costly, roughly 4000 rs for the safari only per day. But it's very large as compared to Dudhwa.

Worth a visit at least once :)