Garima, a recent guest at Chettimani, Coorg, who’s an avid birder – and whose event we’d been part of earlier – spotted 50+ species just around the property!
Here’s a few links to her checklists on eBird
List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4, List 5
The Malabar Trogon, we’re told, was a special catch! Here’s a few shots she captured:
For those interested, here’s an exhaustive list of birds spotted there:
- Eastern/Western Cattle Egret — Bubulcus ibis
- Crested Serpent-Eagle — Spilornis cheela
- Eagle sp. — Haliaeetus/Aquila sp.
- White-breasted Waterhen — Amaurornis phoenicurus
- Red-wattled Lapwing — Vanellus indicus
- Snipe sp. — Gallinago sp.
- Spotted Dove — Streptopelia chinensis
- Greater Coucal — Centropus sinensis
- Little Swift (Indian House Swift) — Apus affinis
- Malabar Trogon — Harpactes fasciatus
- Malabar Grey Hornbill — Ocyceros griseus
- Malabar Barbet (Crimson-throated Barbet) — Psilopogon malabaricus
- White-cheeked Barbet (Small Green Barbet) — Psilopogon viridis
- Lesser Yellownape — Picus chlorolophus
- Rufous Woodpecker — Micropternus brachyurus
- Falcon sp. — Falco sp.
- Plum-headed Parakeet — Psittacula cyanocephala
- Malabar Parakeet (Blue-winged Parakeet) — Psittacula columboides
- Vernal Hanging-Parrot — Loriculus vernalis
- Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike — Hemipus picatus
- Ashy Woodswallow — Artamus fuscus
- Common Iora — Aegithina tiphia
- Orange Minivet — Pericrocotus flammeus
- Long-tailed Shrike — Lanius schach
- Indian Golden Oriole — Oriolus kundoo
- Hair-crested Drongo (Spangled Drongo) — Dicrurus hottentottus
- Greater Racket-tailed Drongo — Dicrurus paradiseus
- Indian/Eastern Jungle Crow (Large-billed Crow) — Corvus macrorhynchos
- Red-rumped Swallow — Cecropis daurica
- Velvet-fronted Nuthatch — Sitta frontalis
- Flame-throated Bulbul (Ruby-throated Bulbul) — Pycnonotus gularis
- Red-whiskered Bulbul — Pycnonotus jocosus
- Yellow-browed Bulbul — Iole indica
- Green Warbler — Phylloscopus nitidus
- Greenish Warbler — Phylloscopus trochiloides
- Booted Warbler — Iduna caligata
- Blyth’s Reed-Warbler — Acrocephalus dumetorum
- Plain Prinia — Prinia inornata
- Oriental White-eye — Zosterops palpebrosus
- Dark-fronted Babbler — Rhopocichla atriceps
- Indian Scimitar-Babbler — Pomatorhinus horsfieldii
- Puff-throated Babbler — Pellorneum ruficeps
- Oriental Magpie-Robin — Copsychus saularis
- Malabar Whistling-Thrush — Myophonus horsfieldii
- Indian Blackbird — Turdus simillimus
- Southern Hill Myna — Gracula indica
- Jungle Myna — Acridotheres fuscus
- Nilgiri Flowerpecker — Dicaeum concolor
- Purple-rumped Sunbird — Leptocoma zeylonica
- Crimson-backed Sunbird — Leptocoma minima
- Long-billed Sunbird (Loten’s Sunbird) — Cinnyris lotenius
- Little Spiderhunter — Arachnothera longirostra
- Grey Wagtail — Motacilla cinerea
