Birds of North India - North India Online

Birds of North India

North India, with more than 650 species of birds, is a paradise for birders and ornithologists with habitats like wetlands, jheels, hill forests, dry scrub, desert, rivers, irrigation canals and farmland. Harike Wetland (Punjab), Nanda Devi National Park (Uttaranchal), Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary & National Park in Gurgaon, Bhindawas Bird Sanctuary (Jhajjar), Dachigam Wildlife Sanctuary (J & K), Kalesar forest (Yamunanagar), Berwala Bird Sanctuary and Morni hills in Panchkula district (Haryana), and the Yamuna river are the main areas where most of these birds can be found. The Keoladeo Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur, Rajasthan is another excellent site for bird watching in the neighborhood. In addition, almost all of the cultivated land has some species of birds. The following is a list of some of the non-passerine birds found in north India. Click here for a partial list of Passerine birds

Order: ANSERIFORMES Family: Anatidae
Bar headed Goose Spot billed Duck Ruddy Shelduck Common Pochard Ferruginous Pochard Greater Scaup Eurasian Wigeon Falcated Duck	Graylag Goose Lesser whistling Duck Common Shelduck Red-crested Pochard Baikal Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Comb Duck	Cotton Pygmy Goose Marbled Duck Gadwall Baer's Pochard Common Teal Garganey Tufted Duck Northern Shoveler
Order: APODIFORMES Family: Apodidae
Common Swift	House Swift	Alpine Swift
Order: BUCEROTIFORMES Family: Bucerotidae
Indian Gray Hornbill	Oriental pied Hornbill	Great Hornbill
Order: CICONIIFORMES
Family: Accipitridae Eurasian Marsh Harrier Montagu's Harrier Long-legged Buzzard Common Buzzard Oriental Honey Buzzard White-eyed Buzzard Cinereous Vulture Red-headed Vulture Egyptian Vulture Long billed Vulture White-rumped Vulture Indian Vulture Lammergeyer Himalayan Griffon Eurasian Griffon Black winged Kite Brahminy Kite Black Kite Lesser Spotted Eagle Greater Spotted Eagle Crested serpent Eagle Booted Eagle Grey headed Fish Eagle Imperial Eagle Pallas's Fish Eagle Black Eagle Bonelli's Eagle White-tailed Eagle Tawny Eagle Indian Spotted Eagle Golden Eagle Short-toed Snake Eagle Steppe Eagle Besra Sparrowhawk Eurasian Sparrowhawk Shikra Northern Goshawk Family: Falconidae Merlin Common Kestrel Family: Glareolidae Indian Courser Small Pratincole Oriental Pratincole Family: Anhingidae Darter	Family: Charadriidae Red wattled Lapwing Northern Lapwing River Lapwing Yellow wattled Lapwing Sociable Lapwing White-tailed Lapwing Kentish Plover Common Ringed Plover Pacific Golden Plover Little-ringed Plover Lesser Sand Plover Black winged stilt Pied Avocet Family: Ardeidae Little Egret Cattle Egret Intermediate Egret Great Egret Black crowned Night Heron Purple Heron Grey Heron Little Heron Indian Pond Heron Black Bittern Yellow Bittern Little Bittern Great Bittern Cinnamon Bittern Family: Laridae River Tern Black-bellied Tern Common Tern Whiskered Tern Little Tern Gull-billed Tern Indian Skimmer Brown-headed Gull Pallas's Gull Family: Jacanidae Bronze winged Jacana Pheasant tailed Jacana Family: Podicipedidae Little Grebe Great crested Grebe Black-necked Grebe	Family: Scolopacidae Common Snipe Jack Snipe Pintail Snipe Eurasian Curlew Black-tailed Godwit Temminck's Stint Red-necked Phalarope Dunlin Ruff Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Common Greenshank Common Redshank Spotted Redshank Family: Ciconiidae Asian Openbill White Stork Painted Stork Black Stork Black necked Stork Woolly headed Stork Lesser Adjutant Family: Phalacrocoracidae Little Cormorant Indian Cormorant Great Cormorant Family: Pteroclidae Painted Sandgrouse Spotted Sandgrouse Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Black-bellied Sandgrouse Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Family: Phoenicopteridae Greater Flamingo Family: Burhinidae Great Thick-knee Eurasian Thick-knee Family: Threskiornithidae Black Ibis White Ibis Glossy Ibis Eurasian Spoonbill
Order: COLUMBIFORMES
Yellow footed green Pigeon Eurasian collared Dove Red-collared Dove	Blue Rock Pigeon Laughing Dove Common Wood Pigeon Emerald Dove	Spotted Dove Oriental Turtle Dove Yellow-eyed Pigeon
Order: CORACIIFORMES
Common Kingfisher Stork billed Kingfisher Green Bee Eater Blue-bearded Bee-Eater	Pied Kingfisher Crested Kingfisher Chestnut headed Bee-Eater Indian Roller European Roller	White throated Kingfisher Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Blue-tailed Bee Eater Dollarbird
Order: CUCULIFORMES
Common Hawk Cuckoo Grey-bellied Cuckoo Greater Coucal	Eurasian Cuckoo Indian Cuckoo Lesser Coucal Sirkeer Malkoha	Pied Cuckoo Asian Koel Drongo Cuckoo
Order: GALLIFORMES
Gray Francolin Rain Quail Jungle Bush Quail Himalayan Monal	Black Francolin Common Quail Red Junglefowl Hill Partridge	Jungle Bush Quail Rock Bush Quail Indian Peafowl Kalij Pheasant
Order: GRUIFORMES
Sarus Crane Demoiselle Crane Common Moorhen Brown Crake Baillon's Crake Little Bustard	Common Crane Water Rail Purple Swamphen Spotted Crake Watercock Indian Bustard	Siberian Crane Common Coot White breasted Waterhen Ruddy-breasted Crake Lesser Florican Macqueen's Bustard
Order: PELICANIFORMES Family: Pelecanidae
Great White Pelican	Spot-billed Pelican	Dalmatian Pelican
Order: PICIFORMES
Yellow crowned Woodpecker Great Barbet Blue-throated Barbet Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker Eurasian Wryneck	Black rumped Flameback Coppersmith Barbet Brown-fronted Woodpecker Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Grey-headed Woodpecker	Brown headed Barbet Greater Flameback Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Himalayan Flameback Streak-throated Woodpecker
Order: PSITTACIFORMES Family: Psittacidae
Rose ringed Parakeet	Alexandrine Parakeet	Plum-headed Parakeet
	Slaty-headed Parakeet
Order: STRIGIFORMES
Collared Scops Owl Spotted Owlet Indian Nightjar Barn Owl Brown Fish Owl	Dusky Eagle Owl Jungle Owlet Large tailed Nightjar Mottled Wood Owl Eurasian Eagle Owl	Short-eared Owl Collared Owlet Grey Nightjar Pallid Scops Owl Sykes's Nightjar
Order: TURNICIFORMES
Barred Buttonquail	Small Buttonquail	Yellow-legged Buttonquail
Order: UPUPIFORMES
	Common Hoopoe


Birds of north India (Passeriformes)

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