Conservation & Awareness on Nature through Photography
India pitta (Pitta brachyura)
Rare sighting of Pitta nesting in Nallamala forests: July 2023
Migratory Birds
Birds of Nallamala Forests
Water Birds
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LISTS OF BIRDS OF NALLAMALA FORESTS
- Black-winged Kite
- Crested serpent eagle
- Shikra
- Crested hawk eagle or Changeable hawk eagle
- Short toed snake eagle
- Greater spotted eagle
- Oriental Honey buzzard
- White eye buzzard
- Indian Eagle owl
- Jungle owlet
- Spotted owlets
- Barred Jungle owlets
- Long eared owl
- Short eared owl
- Indian Scops owl
- Scaly bellied Owl
- Eurasian Marsh Harrier
- Western Marsh Harrier
- Montague Harrier (female)
- Pallid Harrier
- Red necked Falcon
- Peregrine falcons
- Crested Goshawk
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Indian peafowl
- Indian grey hornbill
- Common Hoopoe
- Coppersmith barbet
- Brown headed barbet
- Indian pitta (recorded first time in Nallamala forests)
- Rufous treepie
- Common kingfisher
- White throated Kingfisher
- Pied kingfisher
- Oriental Darter
- Black headed ibis
- Glossy ibis
- Red-naped ibis
- Asian open bill storks
- Woolly necked
- Painted storks
- Flamingos come every year
- Red vented
- Red whiskered
- Yellow throated bulbul
- White browed bulbul
- Brown breasted bulbul
- Yellow crowned woodpecker (Rare)
- Streak throated woodpecker
- Grey headed woodpecker?
- Brown capped woodpecker
- Black rumped Flameblack
- Common Flameblack
- Indian roller
- Blue faced malkoha
- Eurasian Wryneck
- Laughing dove
- Emerald Dove
- Spotted dove
- Eurasian collared dove
- Asian green bee eater
- Blue tailed bee eater
- Chestnut headed bee eater
- Indian paradise flycatcher
- Asian brown flycatcher
- Tickell’s blue flycatcher
- Asian paradise flycatcher
- Blue-throated blue flycatcher
- Taiga flycatcher
- Gray jungle fowl
- Red spurfowl
- White wagtail
- White Browed wagtail
- Grey wagtail
- White rumped Shama
- Little ringed plover
- Sandgrouse species
- Jerdon’s nightjar
- Indian nightjar
- Asian Koel
- Greater coucal
- Lesser coucal
- Common Hawk Cuckoo
- Indian Cuckoo
- Red-headed vulture and other birds of prey (hilly areas)
- Cattle Egret
- Great Egret
- Little egret
- Intermediate egret
- Common crane
- Grey heron
- Indian pond heron
- Purple heron
- Bar headed goose
- Cotton pygmy goose or cotton goose
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Little Grebe
- Bitterns
- Black winged stilts
- Black crowned night heron?
- Little Cormorants
- Great Cormorants
- Red wattled lapwings
- Yellow wattled lapwigs
- Northern pintail
- Northern shoveller
- Ruddy shelduck
- Pheasant tailed jacana
- Wood sandpiper
- Marsh sandpiper
- Knob billed duck or Comb ducks
- Indian spot billed ducks
- Whistling ducks
- Indian Sandgrouse
- Common Teal
- Common Quail
- Common Poachard
- Common Redshank
- Indian River Tern
- Black bellied River Tern
- Little Stint
- Black winged stints
- Garganey Spatula
- White breasted waterhen
- Swamphen
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Alexanderine parakeet
- Plum headed parakeet
- Small minvet
- Scarlet minivet (red male, yellow female)
- Black naped oriole
- Golden oriole
- Black hooded oriole
- Black Drongo
- White Bellied Drongo
- Ashy Drongo
- Indian white eye
- House Crow
- Jungle Crow
- Rufous treepie
- Greenish warbler
- Blyth’s Reed warbler
- Booted warbler
- Large grey wrabler
- Clamorous reed warbler
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Indian scimitar babbler
- Grey breasted babbler
- Yellow bellied babbler
- Tawny-bellied babbler
- Puff throated babbler
- Jungle babbler
- Large grey babblers
- Rufous babbler?
- Yellow throated Sparrow
- House Sparrow
- Purple Sunbird (A big colony of male & female sunbirds at various places in Nallamala forests.)
- Purple-rumped Sunbirds
- Olive backed or garden Sunbird
- Loten’s Sunbirds
- Jerdon’s Leafbird
- Golden fronted leafbird
- Scaly breasted munia
- Tricoloured munia
- Red adavat or Red munia
- Paddy field pipits or oriental pipits
- Long billed pipits
- Ashy Prinia
- Plain Prinia
- Grey breasted Prinia
- Jungle Prinia
- Indian Bushlark or Red winged Bushlark
- Ashy crowned sparrow lark
- Oriental skylark or small skylark
- Rufous tailed lark
- Eastern skylark
- Ashy woodswallows
- Barn swallows
- Red rumped swallows
- Dusky crag martin
- Oriental magpie Robin
- Indian black Robin
- Weavers (Baya weavers)
- Large cuckooshrike
- Brown shrike
- Black headed Cuckooshrike
- Great grey shrike
- Bay backed shrike
- Long tailed shrike
- Little swift
- House swift
- Cinereous tit
- Great tit
- Common stone chat
- Pied bushchat
- Black Redstart
- Grey francolin
- Common Myna
- Jungle Myna
- Indian Silver bills or white throated munia
- Black naped monarch or Black naped blue flycatcher
- Rosy Starlings
- Brahminy starling
- Chestnut-tailed starling/Grey headed myna)
- Indian pied Starling/Indian pied Myna
- Indian Nuthatch (Sitta castanea)
- Orange headed Thrush
- Blue capped rock Thrush
- Green imperial pigeon
- Yellow footed pigeon
- Feral pigeon
- Rock pigeon
- Thick billed flowerpecker
- Pale billed flowerpecker
- Common iora
- Common tailor bird
- Spot breasted Fantail/White-spotted fantail
- next, Gray-headed Swamphen
- Roosting/nesting greater cormorant
- Indian Pied Starling
- Asian Palm-swift
- Crested Tree swift
- Jungle Babbler Turdoides striata
- Yellow-billed babbler
- Jungle Prinia
- Jungle Bush-Quail
- Common Moorhen
- Purple Moorhen
- Common Coot
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Lesser Pied Kingfisher
- Common Swallow
- Blackbacked Woodpecker
- grey headed woodpecker
- Crimsonbreasted barbet
- Large green barbet
- Small Blue Kingfisher
- Little Brown Dove
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Large grey warbler
- Grey warbler
- Singing bushchat
- Green backed flycatcher
Some others
- Egyptian vulture (Nandyal)
- Spot billed eagle owl
- Mottled Wood-owl
- Glaucidium radiatum
- పగడి గంటే
- Brown Fish owl
- Indian Great Horned owl
- Indian White-backed Vulture
- Common Kestrel
- Eurasian Eagle-Owl
- Pale Harrier
- Eurasian Spoonbill
- Platalea leucorodia
- తెడ్డుమూతి కొంగ
- ఈలవేసే చిన్న చిలువ
- Southern Coucal
- Centropus sinensis
- పెద్ద జముడు కాకి
- చిన్న కత్తిపెట్ట
- Eurasian Marsh-Harrier — Adult with bright golden on forehead
- Barred Jungle Owlet
- Athene brama
- చటక పక్షి
- Asian Palm-swift
- Crested Treeswift
- Speckled Piculet
- Marshall’s lora
- Yellow-billed babbler
- Buttonquails/Bustardquails
- Common Buttonquail
- Painted-Snipes
- Greater Painted-Snipe
- Stone-Curlew & Stone-Plovers/Thick-knees Stone-Curlew
- Sandgrouse
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Little Brown Dove
- Indian Ring dove
- Red Turtle dove
- Brainfever bird
- Small Blue Kingfisher
- Lesser Pied Kingfisher
- Small Bee-eater?
- Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker
- Blackbacked Woodpecker
- grey headed woodpecker
- Common Swallow
- Large Pied Wagtail
- Fairy-Bluebird ?
- Black-headed Munia
- Crimsonbreasted barbet
- Large Green barbet
- Moorhen Purple
- Verditer flycatcher
- Green backed flycatcher
- Long billed pipit
- White pigeon type?not confirmed which bird
- Kingfisher white?not confirmed which bird
- Silver neck Bird ? not confirmed which bird
- Cranes
- Cormorants 3types brown, great, little
- Pitta bird watched multiple times
- grey headed woodpecker
- Loggerhead shrike
- Grey warbler?
- Brown Snake Eagle?
- Rufous babbler ?
- Singing bushchat
- Red headed Bunting?
- Kamchatka leaf warbler?
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