INDIAN FEATHERS

Some interesting names of birds found in India:

Rain Quail / Rosy Starling / Isabelline Wheatear / Dusky Crag-Martin / Sirkeer Malkoha / Little Brown Dove / Bank Myna / Graceful Prinia / Hooded Pitta / Red-Whiskered Bulbul / Jungle Owlet / Glossy Ibis / Bengal Florican / Paddyfield Pipit / Collared Pratincole / White-Bellied Treepie / Grass Owl / Finn's Weaver / Bengal Bush Lark / Houbara / Jerdon's Baza / Indian Plaintive Cuckoo / Ashy Woodswallow / Silver- Eared Leiothrix / Indian Chat / Scarlet Minivet / Swamp Francolin / Crimson-Throated Barbet / Tickell's Flowerpecker / Whiskered Tern / Booted Eagle / Temminck's Stint / Small Buttonquail / Great Pied Hornbill

Verditer Flycatcher / Quaker Tit-Babbler / Bay-Backed Shrike / Gold-Fronted Chloropsis / Black- Crowned Night-Heron / Jungle Nightjar / Indian Hanging Parrot / Jack Snipe / Slaty-Legged Crake / Marshall's Iora / Streaked Spiderhunter / Crab Plover / Little Scaly-Bellied Green Woodpecker / Goliath Heron / Velvet-Fronted Nuthatch / Pompadour Green Pigeon / Greater Adjutant / Red-Rumped Swallow / Brahminy Shelduck / Ultramarine Flycatcher / Malabar Trogon / Changeable Hawk-Eagle / Ashy-Crowned Sparrow-Lark / Rufous Sibia / Western Reef-Egret / Painted Spurfowl / Indian Skimmer / Wynaad Laughingthrush / Laggar / Bronzed Drongo / Speckled Piculet


A Malabar Trogon, yesterday

Source: The Book of Indian Birds (OUP)