Common Indian birds & thier habitats

If you are going on a bird-watching trip or just happen too travel, it will be worthwhile to know what birds you can expect in a particular location. Your experience and knowledge will be vastly increased as a consequence

City, Town & Village dwellers:

• House crow
• House sparrow
• Pigeons
• Red-vented bulbul
• Red-whiskered bulbul (On higher altitudes)
• Common myna
• Black kites
• Oriental magpie robin (on Higher altitudes)
• Purple-rumped sunbird
• Purple sunbird
• Parakeets
• Asian Koel
• Spotted owlet

Scrub and jungle

• Babblers
• Indian robin
• Bee-eaters
• White-browed fantailed flycatcher
• Orioles
• Doves
• Shikra
• White-rumped Vulture
• Rosy starlings
• Buntings
• Baya weaver
• Rufous treepie

Farm land:

• Black drango
• Indian roller
• Grey Frankolin
• Quails
• Cattle egret
• Little egret
• Common kestrel
• Eurasian eagle owl

The village pond

• Common coot
• Little grebe
• Jacanas
• Herons
• Darter and
• Cormorant
• Black-winged stilt
• Snipe
• Sandpiper
• Storks
• Wild ducks
• King fishers
• Red-wattled lapwing

Coast line

• White-bellied sea eagle
• Ring-tailed fish eagle
• Reef heron
• Eurasian curlew
• Gull and
• Tern

Reference: Much of the above list was compiled with the help of the book "About Indian birds" by Salim Ali and Laeeq Futehally.