Fauna in and around IITH

Bird list

Following is the list of birds which have been spotted in IITH campus and nearby areas. The list is not exhaustive and is updated regularly.

  1. Grey francolin
  2. Indian peafowl
  3. Lesser whistling duck
  4. Indian spot-billed duck
  5. Little grebe
  6. Painted stork
  7. Asian openbill
  8. Woolly necked stork
  9. Red naped ibis
  10. Glossy ibis
  11. Black headed ibis
  12. Cinnamon bittern
  13. Black crowned night heron
  14. Indian pond heron
  15. Grey heron
  16. Purple heron
  17. Cattle egret
  18. Intermediate egret
  19. Little egret
  20. Great egret
  21. Spot-billed pelican (in Kandi Lake)
  22. Darter
  23. Little cormorant
  24. Indian cormorant
  25. Black kite
  26. Black shouldered winged kite
  27. Brahminy kite
  28. Oriental honey buzzard
  29. Peregrine falcon (ssp. shaheen)
  30. Eurasian marsh harrier
  31. Shikra
  32. White breasted waterhen
  33. Purple swamphen
  34. Common moorhen
  35. Eurasian coot
  36. Bronze winged jacana
  37. Pheasant tailed jacana
  38. Black winged stilt
  39. Red wattled lapwing
  40. Yellow wattled lapwing
  41. Kentish plover (?)
  42. Common snipe
  43. Marsh sandpiper
  44. Green sandpiper
  45. Common sandpiper
  46. River tern
  47. RockCommon pigeon
  48. Oriental turtle dove
  49. Eurasian collared dove
  50. Spotted dove
  51. Laughing dove
  52. Rose-ringed parakeet
  53. Plum-headed parakeet
  54. Common hawk cuckoo (only call)
  55. Grey bellied cuckoo
  56. Asian koel
  57. Greater/Southern (?) coucal
  58. Jungle owlet
  59. Spotted owlet
  60. Barn owl
  61. Common hoopoe
  62. Indian roller
  63. White throated kingfisher
  64. Common kingfisher
  65. Pied kingfisher
  66. Green bee-eater
  67. Blue-tailed bee-eater
  68. Brown headed barbet
  69. Common Iora
  70. Small minivet
  71. Long tailed shrike
  72. Black drongo
  73. Indian golden oriole
  74. Jungle crow
  75. House crow
  76. Barn swallow
  77. ???? martin
  78. Ashy crowned sparrow lark
  79. Oriental skylark
  80. Red whiskered bulbul
  81. Red vented bulbul
  82. Plain prinia
  83. Ashy prinia
  84. Grey breasted prinia
  85. Zitting cisticola
  86. Common tailorbird
  87. Lesser/Hume's (?) whitethroat
  88. Common babbler
  89. Jungle babbler
  90. Yellow eyed babbler
  91. Common myna
  92. Asian pied starling
  93. Brahminy starling
  94. Rosy starling
  95. Bluethroat
  96. Oriental magpie robin
  97. Indian robin
  98. Common stonechat
  99. Pied bushchat
  100. Purple sunbird
  101. Loten's sunbird
  102. Purple rumped sunbird
  103. House sparrow
  104. Baya weaver
  105. Indian silverbill
  106. Red avadavat
  107. Scaly breasted munia
  108. Back headed munia
  109. White browed wagtail
  110. Paddyfield pipit
  111. White-browed bulbul
  112. Chestnut-shouldered petronia
  113. Yellow bittern
  114. Coppermith barbet