Bird Watching

Birds sighted at the Plantation Bungalow and surrounding tea, rubber, cocoa, coconut estate and forested areas from 8/2002 – 1/2003. Please add to the list and give the place and date of the sighting. Numbers refer to specific are references at bottom.


Bird List
Name of Bird
Place
   

Little Cormorant

1 below bungalow

Black eagle

1

Crested Serpent eagle

Above estates – 6

Shrikra

Above estates – 6

Emerald Dove

On road at dusk

Ceylon Lorikeet

2

Blossom-headed Parakeet

2 both sexes seen

Layard’s Parakeet

2

Grey Hombill

1,2 & 3

Common Kingfisher

1

Three toed Kingfisher

1 only one sighting

White breasted Kingfisher

2

Chestnut headed bee-eater

2

Yellow naped woodpecker

2

Flame-backed wood

2

Brown-headed Barbet

1 &2

Yellow fronted Barbet

1

Red Rumped Swallow

Hill top walk #6

Grey Wagtail

1 edge of pool

Wood Shrike

2 forest areas

Yellow browed Bulbul

1& 2

Scarlet Minivet

1& 2

Black capped Bulbul

1& 3

White Browed Bulbul

1

Black Bulbul

Rubber tree Forest

Red vented Bulbul

1, 2, 3

Green leaf bird

Flock in red flower tree

Magpie Robin

1& 2

Brown breasted flycatcher

1

Tickell’s blue Flycatcher

1

Kashmir Flycatcher

2

Orange billed Babbler

Flock in red flower tree

Yellow billed Babbler

1

Purple Rumped Sunbird

1& 2

Small White eye

1, 2, 3

Black Head Oriole

1, 2, 3, 4

White Bellied Drongo

1, 2, 3

Common Myna

2