October birding [2022]Mount Abu.
The Last week of October 2022.
Review of migratory birds, the last week of October 2022. The greenish warblers, Hume’s warblers, Blyth’s Reed Warbler, and the Red-breasted flycatcher are here.
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| Golden-backed Woodpecker/ Black-rumped Flameback Dinopium benghalense: Resident |
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| Black-rumped Flameback - Dinopium benghalense |
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| Black-rumped Flameback - Dinopium benghalense |
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| Black-rumped Flameback - Dinopium benghalense |
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| Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros: Winter visitor. Common. |
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| Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros: Winter visitor. Common. |
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| Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus: Winter and passage migrant. Irregular and uncommon. Usually seen on eucalyptus trees. Surprisingly, Not recorded by Butler (1875). |
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| Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus |
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| Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus |
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| Black-winged Kite - Elanus caeruleus mobbing Booted Eagle |
Black-winged Kite - Elanus caeruleus/Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus: Local migrant? Butler (1875) did not record it and commented that it does not “ascend the hills”. I observed many of these birds here on Mount Abu last year.
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| Booted Eagle - Hieraaetus pennatus |
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| Booted Eagle - Hieraaetus pennatus |
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| Brown Rock Chat - Oenanthe fusca |
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| Brown-headed Barbet - Psilopogon zeylanicus |
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| Common House-Martin - Delichon urbicum Status ? Probably winter visitor |
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| Eurasian Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus |
Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus: Winter visitor.Not very common visitor, but we do have our share of these birds as can be seen by my observation over the last decade.
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| Eurasian Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus |
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| Green Sandpiper - Tringa ochropus |
Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus: Winter visitor. Commonly at all water bodies.
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| Greenish Warbler - Phylloscopus trochiloides |
Common winter/passage migrant. Arrives as early post monsoons.
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| Greenish Warbler - Phylloscopus trochiloides |
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| House Sparrow - Passer domesticus |
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| Hume's Warbler - Phylloscopus humei |
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| Hume's Warbler - Phylloscopus humei |
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| Indian Pond-Heron - Ardeola grayii |
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| Indian Pond-Heron - Ardeola grayii |
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| Indian Robin - Copsychus fulicatus |
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| Indian Robin - Copsychus fulicatus |
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| Indian White-eye - Zosterops palpebrosus |
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| Indian White-eye - Zosterops palpebrosus |
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| Lesser Whitethroat - Sylvia curruca winter visitor common |
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| Lesser Whitethroat - Sylvia curruca |
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| Lesser Whitethroat - Sylvia curruca |
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| Long-tailed Shrike - Lanius schach |
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| Purple Sunbird - Cinnyris asiaticus |
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| Purple Sunbird - Cinnyris asiaticus |
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| Red-breasted Flycatcher - Ficedula parva |
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| Red-breasted Flycatcher - Ficedula parva |
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| Red-whiskered Bulbul - Pycnonotus jocosus |
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| Scaly-breasted Munia - Lonchura punctulata juvenile |
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| Spot-breasted Fantail - Rhipidura albogularis |
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| Taiga Flycatcher - Ficedula albicilla |
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| Tree Pipit - Anthus trivialis |
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| Tree Pipit - Anthus trivialis |
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| Tree Pipit - Anthus trivialis |
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| White-bellied Drongo - Dicrurus caerulescens Resident |
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| White-bellied Drongo - Dicrurus caerulescens |
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| White-bellied Drongo - Dicrurus caerulescens |
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| White-breasted Waterhen - Amaurornis phoenicurus |
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| White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis |
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| White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis |
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| White-throated Kingfisher - Halcyon smyrnensis |
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