THATTEKAD BIRD SANCTUARY BIRD LIST
Given below is a list of some of the most commonly found birds in thattekad bird sanctuary and nearby areas.
Bird Species
- Malabar barbet
- White-cheeked barbet
- Jungle babler
- Roufus babler
- Dark-fronted babler
- Black baza
- Chestnut-headed Bee eater
- Gree- bee eater
- Blue-tailed bee eater
- Blue-bearded bee eater
- Indian black bird
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Bird Species
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- Red-vented bulbul
- Flame-throated bulbul
- Grey-headed bulbul
- Oriental honey buzzard
- Asian fairy bluebird
- southern Coucal
- Little cormorant
- Indian cormorant
Bird Species
- House Crow
- Jungle crow
- Drongo cuckoo
- Common hawk cuckoo
- Banded bay cuckoo
- Spotted dove
- Emerald dove
- Darter
- Lesser whistling duck
Bird Species
- Dollar bird
- Bronzed Drongo
- Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
- Black drongo
- Ashy drongo
- Cattle egret
- Little egret
- Intermediate egret
- Crested-Serpent Eagle
- Rufous-bellied eagle
Bird Species
- Nilgiri flower pecker
- Pale-billed flower pecker
- Thick- billed flower pecker
- Asian brown flycatcher
- Brown-breasted Flycatcher
- Rusty-tailed flycatcher
- Asian paradise flycatcher
- White-bellied blue flycatcher
- Grey jungle fowl
- Red spurfowl
Bird Species
- Tickell’s blue flycatcher
- Blue-throared blue flycatcher
- Verditer flycatcher
- Srilankan frogmouth
- Crested goshawk
- Purple heron
- Black-caped night heron
- Malabar Grey Hornbill
- Great hornbill
- Common Iora
- Black headed ibis
Bird Species
- bronze-winged jacana
- Common kingfisher
- Stork-billed kingfisher
- Pied kingfisher
- White-throated kingfisher
- Oriental dwarf kingfisher
- Blue eared kingfisher
- Brahminy kite
- Asian koel
- Red-wattled lapwing
Bird Species
- Golden fronted leaf bird
- Jerdons leaf bird
- Orange Minivet
- Small minivet
- Southern Hill Myna
- Common myna
- Jungle myna
- Black-naped monarch
- Blue-faced malkoha
Bird Species
- Black-headed munia
- Scaly-breasted munia
- Black-throated munia
- Great-eared nightjar
- Indian nightjar
- Jerdon’s nightjar
- Velvet-fronted nuthatch
- Golden oriole
- Black-hooded oriole
- Black-naped oriole
- Jungle owlet
- Brown Fish owl
Bird Species
- Brown wood owl
- Spot-bellied eagle owl
- Indian scops owl
- Oriental scops owl
- Ceylon Bay owl
- Brown hawk owl
- Vernal Hanging-Parrot
- Malabar parakeet
- Plum-headed parakeet
- Rose-ringed parakeet
- Indian pitta
Bird Species
- Grey-fronted Green Pigeon
- Green Imperial Pigeon
- Mountain Imperial Pigeon
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- Indian roller
- White-headed malabar starling
- Common sandpiper
- shikra
- Purple swamphen
- Little spiderhunter
Bird Species
- Loten sunbird
- Purple sunbird
- Purple-rumped sunbird
- Crimson-backed sunbird
- Asian openbill stork
- Wooly-necked stork
- Black stork
- Brown shrike
- Black-headed cuckooshrike
- Bar-winged flycatcher shrike
Bird Species
- Barn swallow
- Red- rumped swallow
- Indian swiftlet
- Little swift
- River tern
- Whiskered tern
- White-bellied Treepie
- Roufus treepie
- Orange-headed thrush
- Malabar whistling thrush
Bird Species
- Common tailor bird
- Malabar trogon
- White-breasted waterhen
- Grey Wagtail
- White-browed wagtail
- Forest wagtail
- Greenish warbler
- Common flameback woodpecker
- Greater flame back woodpecker
Bird Species
- Lesser flame back woodpecker
- Lesser yellow nape woodpecker
- Roufus woodpecker
- Streak-throated woodpecker
- White-bellied woodpecker
- Heart-spotted woodpecker
- Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker
- Malabar woodshrike
- Ashy woodswallow
