List of birds of Chennai

This is a lists the birds of Chennai, the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Over 130 species of birds have been spotted there.[1] The list includes the local Tamil name.

Table of contents

Grebes

Cormorants

Darters

Bitterns, herons and egrets

Storks

Ibises and spoonbills

Flamingos

Ducks

Hawks, kites and eagles

Falcons

Pheasants and partridges

Rails, crakes and coots

Jacanas

Plovers and lapwings

Sandpipers and allies

Snipes and curlew

Gulls

Terns

Doves and pigeons

Parrots and parakeets

Cuckoos

Female Asian koel photographed in C.I.T. Nagar, Chennai, showing red eye-ring

Barn owls

Typical owls

Nightjars

Swifts

Kingfishers

Bee-eaters

Rollers and hoopoe

Barbets

Woodpeckers

Pitta and larks

Swallows and martins

Wagtails and pipits

Cuckooshrikes

Bulbuls

Thrushes and allies

Prinias

Cisticolas

Acrocephalid warblers

Old World warblers

Old World flycatchers

Laughingthrushes

Sunbirds

Old World orioles

Shrikes

Woodshrikes

Drongos

Woodswallows

Crows and treepies

Starlings

Weavers

Munias

Sparrows

References

  1. G. Thirumalai and S. Krishnan (July 2005). Pictorial Handbook: Birds Of Chennai. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India.
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