Birds of Suntalekhola, North Bengal
by Dipankar Ghose
North Bengal
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BIRDS OF SUNTALEKHOLA IN BETWEEN 01 - 05 DECEMBER 2002
(Suntalekhola is a stretch of Sub-montane forest near Neora Valley National Park. The altitude ranges from 650 meters to 950 meters)
1 Indian Pond Heron (Paddybird) Ardeola grayii
2 Rufous-bellied Eagle (Rufous-bellied
Hawk-Eagle) Hieraaetus kienerii
3 Black Eagle Ictinaetus
malayensis
4 Crested Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheela
5 Hill
Partridge Arborophila torqueola
6 Ashy Wood Pigeon Columba
pulchricollis
7 Red-breasted Parakeet Psittacula alexandri
8
Great (Great Hill) Barbet Megalaima virens
9 Blue-throated Barbet
Megalaima asiatica
10 Greater Yellownape (Large Yellow-naped
Woodpecker) Picus flavinucha
11 Grey-backed (Tibetan) Shrike
Lanius tephronotus
12 Maroon Oriole Oriolus traillii
13 Bronzed
Drongo Dicrurus aeneus
14 Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus
remifer
15 Spangled (Hair-crested) Drongo Dicrurus
hottentottus
16 Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
17 Hill Myna
(Grackle) Gracula religiosa
18 Common Green Magpie Cissa
chinensis
19 Yellow-billed (Gold-billed) Blue Magpie Urocissa (Cissa) flavirostris
20 Collared (Black-browed) Treepie
Dendrocitta frontalis
21 Grey (Himalayan) Treepie Dendrocitta
formosae
22 Large-billed (Jungle) Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
23
Bar-winged (Pied) Flycatcher-shrike Hemipus picatus
24 Scarlet
Minivet Pericrocotus flammeus
25 Long-tailed Minivet Pericrocotus
ethologus
26 Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus
27
Orange-bellied Leafbird (Orange-bellied Chloropsis) Chloropsis
hardwickii
28 Black-crested (Black-headed Yellow) Bulbul
Pycnonotus melanicterus
29 Red-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus
cafer
30 Ashy (Brown-eared) Bulbul Hemixos (Hypsipetes)
flavala
31 Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus (madagascariensis)
32 Black-faced Laughingthrush Garrulax
affinis
33 White-browed (Red-winged) Shrike Babbler Pteruthius
flaviscapis
34 Chestnut-tailed Minla (Bar-throated Siva) Minla
strigula
35 Blue-winged Minla (Blue-winged Siva) Minla
cyanouroptera
36 Whiskered (Yellow-naped) Yuhina Yuhina
flavicollis
37 Black-chinned Yuhina Yuhina nigrimenta
38 Nepal
Fulvetta (Nepal Babbler) Alcippe nipalensis
39 Rufous-backed
(Chestnut-backed) Sibia Heterophasia annectans
40 Rufous
(Black-capped) Sibia Heterophasia capistrata
41 Grey Sibia
Heterophasia gracilis
42 Red-throated (Red-breasted) Flycatcher
Ficedula (Muscicapa) parva
43 Verditer Flycatcher Eumyias
(Muscicapa) thalassina
44 Grey-headed Canary (Grey-headed)
Flycatcher Culicicapa ceylonensis
45 Yellow-bellied Fantail
(Yellow-bellied Fantail Flycatcher) Rhipidura
hypoxantha
46
White-throated Fantail (White-throated Fantail Flycatcher)
Rhipidura
albicollis
47 Eastern Crowned (Large Crowned Leaf)
Warbler
48
Golden-spectacled Warbler (Black-browed Flycatcher-Warbler)
Seicercus burkii
49 Grey-hooded Warbler (Grey-headed
Flycatcher-Warbler) Seicercus
xanthoschistos
50 White-tailed
(Himalayan) Rubythroat Luciana (Erithacus) pectoralis
51
Plumbeous Water (Plumbeous) Redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosus
52
Little Forktail Enicurus scouleri
53 Black-backed Forktail
Enicurus immaculatus
54 Grey (Dark-Grey) Bushchat Saxicola
ferrea
55 White-capped Water Redstart (River Chat) Chaimarrornis
leucocephalus
56 Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
57 Blue
Whistling Thrush Myophonus caeruleus
58 Eurasian Blackbird
(Blackbird) Turdus merula
59 Yellow-cheeked (Black-spotted
Yellow) Tit Parus spilonotus
60 Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch Sitta
castanea
61 Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
62 Black-throated
(Black-breasted) Sunbird Aethopyga saturata
63 Little
Spiderhunter Arachnothera longirostra
64 Streaked Spiderhunter
Arachnothera magna
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