Red Junglefowl Gallus gallus
1 pair crossed the road enroute to Roopa 7/4, 1: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Koklass Pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha
heared 9/4, 2 heared 10/4, 2 seen 11/4, GHNP mainly above 2400 m.

Indian Peafowl Pavo cristatus
4 Chandigarh, 10: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Demoiselle Crane (grus virgo
2: 24/4 Orkla, New Delhi

Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
2: 24/4 Orkla, New Delhi

Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio)
20: 24/4 Orkla, New Delhi

Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
Seen enroute to GHNP: 5-7/4 & 13/4, 2 Bagdogra 14/4, 5: 24/4 Orkla, New Delhi

River Lapwing Vanellus duvaucellii
10: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
2: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife , 1: 24/4 Orkla, New Delhi

Common Redshank Tringa totanus
1: 5/4 enroute to Chandigarh

Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatalis
1: 5/4 enroute to Chandiah

Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
1: 24/4 Orlkla, New Delhi

Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
1: 5/4 & 3: 13/4 enroute to Chandiah

Common Sandpiper Tringa hypoleucos
2: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Little Stint Calidris minuta
+100 : 24/4 Orlkla

Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
7: 24/4 Orkla

Ruff Philomachus pugnax
+30 : 24/4 Orkla

Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
Fond in a channel in New Delhi and a few enroute to Changidah

Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
+35: 24/4 Orkla

Small Pratincole Glareola lactea
+ 200: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife (nesting), +40: 24/4 Orkla

Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica
2: 24/4 Orkla

Yellow-footed Green-Pigeon Treron phoenicoptera 1 spotted by Ebbe in the foothils from GHNP- Chandigarh

Snow Pigeon Columba leuconota
+100: 9/4 GHNP

Oriental Turtle-Dove Streptopelia orientalis
2-4 seen every day in GHNP, Lava & Sandakphu trek

Eurasian Turtle-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
several enroute to Changidarh

Red-collared Dove (Streptopelia tranqebarica)
+4: 5/7 near Changidarh

Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis
+50 :12/4 GHN, 1 Mahananda wildlife, 1: 15/4 & 2: 16/4 Lava, 1 Dardjeeling

Alexandrine Parakeet Psittacula eupatria
+50: 14/4 Silligun Forest, +25: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
nesting near Changidarh, +50: 7/4 & 13/4 several erounte to and from GHNP, +10: 24/4 Orkla

Red-breasted Parakeet Psittacula alexandri
+25 Siliguri forest

Plum-headed Parakeet Psittacula cyanocephala
2: 7/4, before fothills near Changidarh, 4: 8/4 GHNP at 1800 meters, 1: 12/4 GHNP

Slaty-headed Parakeet Psittacula himalayana
Big flocks in GHNP, perhaps +100 especially below 2200 meters, nesting & mating, we observed one par on a 15 longterm matecopulation, the male feed the female just after copulation!

Large Hawk-Cuckoo Cuculus sparverioides
Heared on the lower part of Sandakapu trek: 22/4, 2 seen: 23/4 in Dardejeeling

Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
Heared in Lava & dardjeeling and lower Sandakphu trek, finally one observed in Dardjeeling on 23/4

Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus
1 seen and several heared GHNP, Heared every day on Western trip, +7 seen in Lava, 1: 18/4 Maghma

Plaintive Cuckoo Cacomantis merulinus
2 H 16/4 at 1850 meters Lava

Drongo Cuckoo Surniculus lugubris
1: 16/4 seen well by some at 2000 meters Lava

Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopacea
2: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Green-billed Malkoha Phaenicophaeus tristis
3: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife Greater Coucal

Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis
+7 Delhi to GHNP and return, 25: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Jungle Owlet Glaucidium radiatum
5: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Asian Barred Owlet Glaucidium cuculoides
1 seen at checkjpoint/entrance to GHNP 8/4, heared same place 12/4

Spotted Owlet Athene brama
1 seen by some in Kulo: 12/4

Gray Nightjar Caprimulgus indicus
Heared in camp at Shilt, GHNP

Himalayan Swiftlet Aerodramus brevirostris
several seen every day in GHNP, Lava area, +30 Sandakphu

Little Swift Apus affinis
between 10-25 seen every day at lower attitudes

House Swift Apus nipalensis
2 seen by John at Sai Roopa, GHNP

Crested Treeswift Hemiprocne coronata
3: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis
About 5 seen every day at lower altitudes, 5 Kulo, 3 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Chestnut-headed Bee-eater Merops leschenaulti
3: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Little Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis
10 : 7/4 near the foothills and Chindigarh

Indian Roller Coracias benghalensis
6 Chandigarh -. Sai Roopa 7/4

Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis
4: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
1 Orkla, New Delhi 24/4

Indian Gray-Hornbill Ocyceros birostris
1: 14/4 &2: 15/4 Mahananda wildlife

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