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Thattekad-Munnar(Kerala) & Kotagiri(Tamilnadu) Birding Photography Tour 9-18 January 2026


🌿🌿 Destination: Thattekad-Munnar(Kerala) & Kotagiri(Tamilnadu) 

📅Date:  9-18 January 2026

👥 Number of clients: Thattekad-Munnar 7 and Kotagiri 8

🚙 Number of vehicle: 3

 

Birds have been photographed during the trip:

1. Red spurfowl

2. Gray junglefowl

3. Painted bush quail

4. Nilgiri wood pigeon

5. Spotted dove

6. Asian emerald dove

7. Gray fronted green pigeon

8. Green imperial pigeon

9. Malabar imperial pigeon

10. Greater coucal

11. Pied cuckoo

12. Banded bay cuckoo

13. Great eared nightjar

14. Jungle nightjar 

15. Jerdon’s nightjar

16. Srilanka frogmouth 

17. Indian swiftlet 

18. Little swift

19. Crested treeswift

20. White breasted waterhen 

21. Slaty legged crake 

22. River tern

23. Little cormorant

24. Indian pond heron

25. Rufous bellied eagle

26. Black eagle

27. Crested goshawk

28. Shikra

29. Common buzzard

30. Shikra

31. Srilanka bay owl

32. Indian scops owl

33. Spot bellied eagle owl

34. Jungle owlet

35. Mottled wood owl

36. Brown boobook 

37. Malabar trogon

38. Malabar gray hornbill

39. Common kingfisher

40. Blue eared kingfisher

41. White throated kingfisher

42. Malabar barbet

43. White cheeked barbet

44. Heart spotted woodpecker

45. Brown capped pygmy woodpecker

46. Malabar flameback

47. Black rumped flameback

48. White bellied woodpecker

49. Peregrine falcon

50. Plum headed parakeet

51. Malabar parakeet

52. Vernal hanging parrot

53. Malabar woodshrike

54. Greater racket tailed drongo

55. Indian paradise flycatcher

56. Brown shrike

57. Long tailed shrike

58. Rufous treepie

59. White bellied treepie

60. Malabar lark

61. Booted warbler

62. Blyth’s reed warbler

63. Dusky crag martin

64. Hill swallow

65. Eastern red rumped swallow

66. Yellow browed bulbul

67. Flame throated bulbul

68. Red whiskered bulbul

69. Red vented bulbul

70. Tickell’s leaf warbler

71. Green warbler

72. Greenish warbler

73. Indian white eye

74. Dark fronted babbler

75. Indian scimitar babbler

76. Puff throated babbler

77. Brown cheeked fulvetta

78. Nilgiri laughingthrush

79. Palani laughingthrush

80. Rufous babbler

81. Jungle babbler

82. Velvet fronted nuthatch

83. Southern hill myna

84. Malabar starling

85. Jungle myna

86. Orange headed thrush

87. Indian blackbird

88. Nilgiri sholakili

89. White bellied sholakili

90. Nilgiri flycatcher

91. White bellied blue flycatcher

92. Blue throated flycatcher

93. Tickell’s blue flycatcher

94. Malabar whistling thrush

95. Black and orange flycatcher

96. Kashmir flycatcher

97. Nilgiri flowerpecker

98. Crimson backed sunbird

99. Asian fairy bluebird

100. Golden fronted leafbird

101. Black throated munia

102. White rumped munia

103. Gray wagtail

104. Paddyfield pipit

105. Nilgiri pipit

106. Common rosefinch

eBird Trip Report: https://ebird.org/tripreport/465119

Sharing the screenshots in a collage format from camera display.

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