List of birds of Telangana
The official state bird of Telangana, India, is the pala pitta,[1] also known as the Indian roller, Coracias benghalensis. Other birds native to the region according to Ashvij Putta, a wildlife conservationist with the Hyderabad Tiger Conservation Society, include:[2]
- Alexandrine parakeet
- Ashy-crowned sparrow lark
- Asian openbill
- Asian pied starling
- Bar headed goose
- Barn swallow
- Barn owl
- Black drongo
- Black-crowned night heron
- Black-hooded oriole
- Black-rumped flameback
- Black-shouldered kite
- Black ibis
- Black kite
- Blue rock pigeon
- Blue-tailed bee-eater
- Bonelli's eagle
- Brahminy starling
- Bronze-winged jacana
- Brown fish owl
- Cattle egret
- Changeable hawk-eagle
- Chestnut-shouldered petronia
- Clamorous reed warbler
- Common babbler
- Common hawk cuckoo
- Common kestrel
- Common kingfisher
- Common myna
- Common sandpiper
- Common woodshrike
- Crested serpent eagle
- Darter
- Eastern yellow wagtail
- Eurasian golden oriole
- Eurasian marsh harrier
- Great tit
- Greater coucal
- Green bee-eater
- Green imperial pigeon
- Great egret
- Grey heron
- Grey jungle fowl
- Grey wagtail
- Hoopoe
- House crow
- House sparrow
- Indian black bird
- Indian black eagle
- Indian bushlark
- Indian cormorant
- Indian grey hornbill
- Indian nightjar
- Indian robin
- Indian silverbill
- Intermediate egret
- Jungle babbler
- Large grey babbler
- Large pied wagtail
- Laughing dove
- Lesser flamingo
- Lesser whistling duck
- Little brown dove
- Little cormorant
- Little ringed plover
- Little egret
- Long-billed vulture
- Long-tailed shrike
- Mallard
- Orange-headed thrush
- Oriental honey buzzard
- Osprey
- Painted stork
- Peacock
- Pied bushchat
- Pied kingfisher
- Plain prinia
- Plum-headed parakeet
- Pond heron
- Purple sunbird
- Purple swamphen
- Rain quail
- Red avadavat
- Red-vented bulbul
- Red-wattled lapwing
- River lapwing
- Rock pigeon
- Rose ringed parakeet
- Rosy starling
- Ruddy shelduck
- Rufous treepie
- Scaly-breasted munia
- Scops owl
- Shikra
- Silver pheasant
- Small minivet
- Spot-billed duck
- Spotted dove
- Spotted owlet
- Striated swallow
- Tricoloured munia
- White-bellied drongo
- White-breasted waterhen
- White-browed fantail
- White-eyed buzzard
- White-rumped munia
- White-throated kingfisher
- White ibis
- Yellow-crowned woodpecker
- Yellow-footed green pigeon
- Yellow-wattled lapwing
References
- ↑ "Telangana Declared Its Official Birds And Trees". SanctuariesIndia.com. 2014-11-28. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
- ↑ Putta, Ashvij (2014). "Birds of Telangana". Facebook. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
Putta, Ashvij. "Ashvij Putta, Wildlife Conservationist". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
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