The Brown Fish Owl & The Leaf Bird in Masinagudi

During the new year break we had gone to Kerala to visit my grand parents. After spending a few days with them, the we went to Masinagudi, in the Nilgris. One of my teachers had once said to me i can be a good birder only if one learns to spot the Leaf Bird. I was really happy when i sighted one. I was happy to see one of the rare parrots in India called the Vernal Hanging Parrot.

We also saw this Blue face Malkoha


These Elepants werre at peace, but i was wary of them.

The Brown fishing Owl


The birds we sighted were

1. Common Iora

2. Oriental White Eye

3. Large Wood Shrike

4. Small Minivet

5. Scarlet Minivet

6. Barwinged Fly Catcher

7. Verditer Flycatcher

8. Golden Fronted Leafbird

9. malabar Parakeet

10. Vernal Hanging Parrot

11. Pale Bellied Sunbird

12. Yellow Wagtail

13. White Wagtail

14. Swifts

15. Martins

16. Swallows

17. Yellow Footed Green Pigeon

18. Yellow Billed Babbler

19. Jungle Babbler

20. White Throated Kingfisher

21. White Browed Fantail

22. Blacke Capped Oriole

23. Purple Sunbird

24. Black Drongo

25. White Bellied Drongo

26. Ashy Drongo

27. Red Vented Bulbul

28. Red Whiskered Bulbul

29. Jungle Crow

30. White Cheeked Barbet

31. Paradise Flycatcher

32. Spotted Owlets

33. Kestrel

34. Changeable Hawk Eagle

35. Crested Serpent Eagle

36. Brown Fish Owl

37. Roufous Bellied Eagle

38. Flameback Woodpecker

39. Black Kite

40. Brahminy Kite

41. Pond Heron

42. Peacocks

43. Cormorants

44. Common Mynah

45. Brahminy Mynah

46. Jungle Mynah

47. Grey Jungle Fowl

48. Spotted Dove

49. Koel

50. Cattle Egret

51. Green Bee eater

52. Magpie Robin

53. Coppersmith

54. Loten's Sunbird

55. Blue faced Malkoha

56. Racket Tail Drongo

57. Jungle Bush Quail

58. Indian Pitta

59. Brown Headed Barbet

60. White Browed Wagtail

61. Hill Mynah

62. Brown Shrike

63. Rufous Tree pie

64. Spot Billed Pelican

65. Painted Stork

66. Wooly Necked Stork

67. Malabar Whistling Thrush

68. Malabar Grey HornBill

69. Scaly Bellied Woodpecker

70. Chestnut tailed Starling

71. Great tit

72. Plain Flower Pecker

73. Long Tailed Shrike.

74. Brown Flycatcher

75. Orintal Honey Buzzard

76. Blue Cpped Rock Thrush

77. Large Cuckoo Shrike

78. Chestnut Headed Bee Eater

79. Green Bee Eater

80. Black Shouldered Kite

81. Grey HornBill

82. Pied KingFisher

83. River Tern

84. Coots

85. Shovelers

86. Indian Roller