Thattekad Bird List
Given below is a list of some of the commonly found bird species at Thattekad bird sanctuary and nearby areas.
- Malabar barbet
- White-cheeked Barbet
- Jungle Babler
- Roufus Babler
- Dark-fronted Babler
- Indian Schimiter Babler
- Black Baza
- Chestnut-headed Bee- eater
- Green- Bee-eater
- Blue-tailed Bee-eater
- Blue-bearded Bee-eater
Photo courtesy – Internet
- Indian Blackbird
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- Red-vented Bulbul
- Flame-throated Bulbul
- Grey-headed Bulbul
- Yellow-browed Bulbul
- Oriental honey Buzzard
- Asian fairy Bluebird
- southern Coucal
- Little Cormorant
- Indian Cormorant
- House Crow
- Jungle Crow
- Drongo Cuckoo
- Common hawk Cuckoo
- Banded bay Cuckoo
- Spotted Dove
- Emerald Dove
- Darter
- Lesser whistling Duck
- Dollar Bird
- Bronzed Drongo
- Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
- Black Drongo
- Ashy Drongo
- Cattle Egret
- Little Egret
- Intermediate Egret
- Crested-Serpent Eagle
- Rufous-bellied Eagle
- Black Eagle
- Changeable Hawk Eagle
- Nilgiri flower pecker
- Pale-billed flower pecker
- Thick- billed flower pecker
- Asian brown Flycatcher
- Brown-breasted Flycatcher
- Rusty-tailed Flycatcher
- Asian paradise flycatcher
- Grey jungle fowl
- Red spurfowl
- Tickell’s blue Flycatcher
- White-bellied blue Flycatcher
- Blue-throared blue Flycatcher
- Verditer flycatcher
- Srilankan frogmouth
- Brown-cheeked Fulvetta
- Crested Goshawk
- Purple Heron
- Grey Heron
- Western Reef Heron
- Black-caped night Heron
- Malabar Grey Hornbill
- Great Hornbill
- Common Iora
- Black headed Ibis
- 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
- Golden fronted Leaf bird
- Jerdon’s Leaf bird
- Orange Minivet
- Small minivet
- Southern Hill Myna
- Common myna
- Jungle myna
- Black-naped monarch
- Blue-faced Malkoha
- Black-headed Munia
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- White-rumped 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
- Brown wood owl
- Spot-bellied eagle Owl
- Indian scops Owl
- Oriental scops Owl
- Ceylon Bay Owl
- Brown Boobook
- Vernal Hanging-Parrot
- Malabar Parakeet
- Plum-headed Parakeet
- Rose-ringed parakeet
- Indian pitta
- Ashy Prinia
- Grey-fronted Green Pigeon
- Green Imperial Pigeon
- Malabar Imperial Pigeon
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- Indian roller
- White-headed Malabar Starling
- Common Sandpiper
- Shikra
- Purple Swamphen
- Little Spiderhunter
- Loten’s 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
- Barn swallow
- Red- rumped swallow
- Indian swiftlet
- Little Swift
- Brown-backed Needletail
- River tern
- Whiskered tern
- White-bellied Treepie
- Roufus treepie
- Orange-headed thrush
- Malabar whistling Thrush
- Common tailor bird
- Malabar Trogon
- White-breasted waterhen
- Grey Wagtail
- White-browed wagtail
- Forest wagtail
- Greenish warbler
- Thick-billed Warbler
- Large-billed Leaf Warbler
- Common flameback woodpecker
- Malabar flame back woodpecker
- Lesser flame back woodpecker
- Lesser yellow nape woodpecker
- Rufous woodpecker
- Streak-throated woodpecker
- White-bellied woodpecker
- Heart-spotted woodpecker
- Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker
- Malabar woodshrike
- Ashy woodswallow
Note- The above given list is not a complete list of all the bird species reported in the sanctuary, but a list of some of the frequently sighted birds.