🌿🌿 Destination: Thattekad Munnar Kotagiri Valparai
📅Date: 3-12 Dec, 2019Â
👥 Number of Guests:Â
    Kotagiri Valparai- 5
    Thattekad Munnar- 8Â
Bird Species Seen and Photographed during the trip:
1. Nilgiri Flycatcher
2. Palani Laughingthrush
3. Malayan night heron
4. Painted bush quailÂ
5. Chestnut winged cuckoo
6. Nilgiri Blue Robin
7. Nilgiri Wood pigeon
8. Nilgiri Flowerpecker
9. Indian Scimitar Babbler
10. Ceylon Frogmouth
11. Slaty legged crake
12. Jerdon's Nightjar
13. Jungle Nightjar
14. Oriental Scops Owl
15. Phillipine shrike
16. Spot bellied eagle owl
17. Jungle Owlet
18. Rusty tailed flycatcher
19. Malabar Trogon
20. White Bellied Blue Robin
21. White Bellied Blue Flycatcher
22. Blue Throated Blue Flycatcher
23. Verditer flycatcher
24. Brown breasted flycatcher
25. Kashmir flycatcher
26. Orange minivet
27. Malabar Whistling Thrush
28. Malabar Grey Hornbill
29. Indian Pitta
30. Dark Fronted Babbler
31. White Cheeked Barbet
32. Heart Spotted Woodpecker
33. Tickels leaf warbler
34. Greater Flameback Woodpecker
35. Lesser Flameback Woodpecker
36. Brown capped pygmy Woodpecker
37. Lesser Yellownape
38. Greater Racked Tailed Drongo
39. Rufous Treepie
40. White Bellied Treepie
41. Blue rock thrush
42. Indian rollerÂ
43. Ashy Drongo
44. Grey headed Canary Flycatcher
45. Oriental White Eye
46. Indian Paradise Flycatcher
47. Square tailed bulbul
48. Black and Orange Flycatcher
49. Spot breasted fantail
50. Emerald Dove
51. Indian Spotted Dove
52. Flame Throated Bulbul
53. Blyths Starling
54. Chestnut tailed Starling
55. Asian Fairy Bluebird
56. Crested Serpent Eagle
57. Crimson backed sunbird
58. Crested goshawk
59. Shikra
60. Oriental honey buzzard
61. Black baza
62. Purple sunbird
63. Purple rumped sunbird
64. Brahminy kite
65. Southern Coucal
66. Grey Junglefowl
67. Red Spurfowl
68. Jungle babbler
69. Brown shrike
70. Grey footed green pigeon
71. Indian Blue Robin
72. Grey Wagtail
73. Cinererous Tit
74. Long tailed shrike
75. Red Whiskered Bulbul
76. Red vented bulbul
77. Jerdons Leafbird
78. Golden fronted leafbird
79. Orange Headed Thrush (cyanotus sp.)
80. Vernal hanging parrot
81. Common hawk cuckoo
82. Malabar Parakeet
83. Blue capped rock Thrush
84. Common Rosefinch
85. Velvet Fronted Nuthatch
86. Pied Bushchat
87. Hill Swallow
88. Ashy wood swallow
89. Green bee eater
90. Chestnut headed bee eater
91. Jungle myna
92. Southern Hill Myna
93. Grey heron
94. Indian rollerÂ
95. Large billed warbler
96. Booted warbler
97. Blyths reed warbler
98. Greenish warbler
99. Western crowned warbler
100. Lesser whistling duck
101. Pied bushchat
102. Red rumped swallow
103. Indian black bird
104. Streak throated woodpecker
105. White throated kingfisher
106. Eastern Jungle Crow
107. House Sparrow
108. Common Myna
109. House Crow
110. Oriental magpie robin
111. Indian pond heron
112. Green sandpiper
113. Cattle egret
114. Olive backed pipit
115. Common kingfisher
Mammals Found During the Trip:
1. Slender Loris
2. Asian palm civet cat
3. Malabar giant squirrel
4. Lion tailed macaque
5. Barking Deer
6. Indian Gaur
7. Nilgiri Tahr
Thank you so much God for giving the opportunity to see this beautiful avian life of mother Nature.
Here is a collage of some major sightings(Taken from Camera screen). Will post the processed images very soon.
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