Birds of Mount Abu APRIL 2019 mountabubirds.blogspot.com

Birding in April 2019. The mercury is rising at Mt Abu

Pink Full Moon 19 April 2019.

 Believe that the Full moon makes birds more energetic and humans more dynamic. How far it's true I'll leave that to your imagination.

19 April 2019.

Common Myna - Acridotheres tristis

Common Myna - Acridotheres tristis

Oriental Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus

Oriental Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus

Red Whiskered Bulbul - Pycnonotus jocosus 

22 April 2019.

Blyth's Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum

Passage migrant. Not uncommon during spring passage

I have seen them until the first week of May

Blyth's Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum

Blyth's Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum

Shikra Accipiter badius

Shikra Accipiter badius

Shikra Accipiter badius

Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis 

Birds of Mount Abu MARCH 2019 mountabubirds.blogspot.com

Birding In March Mount Abu

9 March 2019.

Common Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita

( Winter visitor )

Common Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita

( Winter visitor )

Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis 

Indian Robin - Saxicoloides fulicatus

Indian Robin - Saxicoloides fulicatus

Indian Robin - Saxicoloides fulicatus

Indian Robin - Saxicoloides fulicatus

Indian Yellow Tit Machlolophus aplonotus

Purple Sunbird - Cinnyris asiaticus - Male

10 March 2019.

Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros - Male

( Winter visitor )

Black stork - Ciconia  nigra 

Black stork - Ciconia  nigra 

( Winter visitor )

Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus 

Brown rock chat - Cercomela fusca 

Brown rock chat - Cercomela fusca 

Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos

( Winter visitor )

Eurasian Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris   - In flight

( Winter visitor )

Indian Yellow Tit Machlolophus aplonotus

Long-Tailed Shrike -  Lanius schach 

Northern Pintail - Anas acuta - female 

( Winter visitor )

Red Whiskered Bulbul - Pycnonotus jocosus

Sulphur-bellied Warbler - Phylloscopus griseolus

( Winter visitor )

White-bellied drongo - Dicrurus caerulescens  

White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis 

Look out for the next post I've photographed some species that probably have never been photographed before here in Mount Abu. 

Photo Gallery Bulbuls mountabubirds.blogspot.com

Bulbuls--Passeriformes- Pycnonotidae

Bulbuls are medium-sized songbirds. Some are colourful with yellow, red or orange vents, cheeks, throat or super cilia, but most are drab, with uniform olive brown to black plumage. Some species have distinct crests. There are 19 species which occur in India.

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Red Whiskered Bulbul  Pycnonotus jocosus  Mt. Abu

Red-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus cafer haemorrhousus   Mt. Abu

Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus   Nainital UK

Himalayan Bulbul Pycnonotus leucogenys  Nainital UK

Himalayan Bulbul Pycnonotus leucogenys  Nainital UK

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