Birds of Palladam Puliampatti

Now, you may ask, what informative purpose does the birds of P.Puliampatti serve to the general reader. It may help people of P.Puliampatti but how does it help bird watcher’s in other localities?, I hear you say. Well, P.Puliampatti is a quaint Village located about 38 Kms from Coimbatore and about 32 Kms from Tiruppur. There is some agriculture activity in the village with some farms dedicated to vegetable and grain crops. It is doted sparsely with coconut groves. It is far from an idyllic village with very scant rainfall and more fields are getting abandoned because of shortage of water and agricultural labour. For all practical purposes, it can be classified as a dry scrubland but even in this seemingly desolate village, there is a thriving bird population. I will just list down the bird species that I have located so that the birders everywhere can take solace in the fact that birds are everywhere and it is up to us to locate them. The below list is by no means complete and I have excluded several species which I could not identify conclusively.
1.       House Crow
2.       House Sparrow
3.       Common Myna
4.       Common Hoopoe
5.       Common Iora
6.       Asian koel
7.       Purple sunbird
8.       Purple rumped sunbird
9.       Indian robin
10.   Pied bushchat
11.   White headed babbler
12.   Black drongo
13.   Red vented bulbul
14.   White browed wag tail
15.   Indian silverbill
16.   Brahminy starling
17.   Little green bee-eater
18.   Southern coucal
19.   Cattle egret
20.   Indian Pond heron
21.   Indian bushlark
22.   Indian peafowl
23.   Barn swallow
24.   Asian Palm swift
25.   Asian paradise flycatcher
26.   Rufous treepie
27.   Jungle crow
28.   Bay back shrike
29.   Indian courser
30.   Black drongo
31.   Shikra
32.   Black kite
33.   Indian roller
34.   Rock pigeon
35.   Eurasian collared dove
36.   Laughing dove
37.   Spotted owlet
38.   Black-rumped Flameback woodpecker
39.   Rose ringed parakeet
40.   Indian courser
 
List appended on 04/09/2014

41. Spotted dove
42. Common woodshrike
43. Grey Frankolin
44. Common Iora
45. Grey Francolin
46. Blue faced malkoha
47. Jacobian Cuckoo / Pied crested cuckoo
48. Ashy Crowned sparrowlark
49.White browed wagtail
50. Red Wattled lapwing
51. Yellow wattled lapwing
52.  White throated kingfisher