Ever experienced the joy one feels by walking on grass, besides a lake with cool breeze flowing through past our ears, the early morning sun rays just warm enough to give that pleasant warmth!!? Just when you are about to get lost in that amazing beauty, you hear the soulful song of Indian Koel, singing for its mate, making you forget all the madness of the world around you! That is the joy I experience every time I leave my room for an early morning walk! These birds make that walk even more exciting and interesting, so much so, that it feels like sin even if I miss one day!.
This is a pictorial list of birds that one can see at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. For a near exhaustive checklist compiled by me, visit this page.
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- Cinereous Tit
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- Cinereous Tit
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- Cinereous Tit
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- Ferruginous Pochard
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- Ferruginous Pochard
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- Ferruginous Pochard
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- Tufted Ducks
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- Tufted Ducks
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- Amur Wagtail
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- Pipit
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- Common Stonechat female
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- Intermediate Erget
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- Intermediate Erget
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- Lesser Cormorant
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- Spotted Dove
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- Spotted Dove
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- Red-wattled Lapwing
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- Red-wattled Lapwing
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- Blue-throated Barbet
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- Blue-throated Barbet
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- Chestnut-tailed Starlings
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- Common Moorhen
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- Common Myna
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- Common Myna
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- Asian Openbill
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- Asian Openbill
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- Asian Openbill
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- Asian Openbill
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- Old World Flycatcher
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- Old World Flycatcher
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- White-breasted Waterhen
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- White-breasted Waterhen
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- Oriental Magpie Robin
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- Oriental Magpie Robin
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- Oriental Magpie Robin
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- Red-vented Bulbul
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- Red-vented Bulbul
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- Red-vented Bulbul
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- Purple Sunbird
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- Scaly-breasted Munia
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- Scaly-breasted Munia
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- Black Drongo
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- Black Drongo
Nice photos. Would like to go to India to have a look at the birds there. Just now many birds are over for the winter including Whooper Swans, Canada Geese, Barnacle Geese and they will be flying back north in March.
In Spring (March-April) we can look forward to the Swifts, Swallows and Martins flying over from Africa and India for the summer.
Posted by janeslog | February 12, 2012, 2:48 PMThank you! Yeah, come winter and we have a lot of traffic at our wetlands, thanks to many beautiful migratory birds. I shall soon post with all those aquatic birds. Looking forward to Spring
Posted by Hindupur Avinash | February 12, 2012, 5:21 PMGood work ra Avinash. I have some bird pics too will send you If I have anything extra
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Posted by Aditya | February 19, 2012, 10:04 PMHehe.. Thank you!!
Send to my email.. I will upload them soon!
Neetho kuda unnaya! Great
Posted by Hindupur Avinash | February 19, 2012, 11:01 PMI see that I would recognise many old acquaintances in India – the spotted dove, bulbul and myna were deliberately introduced here. The bulbul holds on in spots, but the myna in particular is a nuisance bird now. A good approach (IMHO) to document the birds of a particular neighbourhood, and some lovely shots.
Posted by mymatejoechip | February 26, 2012, 7:05 AMSo nice!!
Great photos!
Posted by Cornel Apostol | March 3, 2012, 1:46 AMThank you Cornel
Posted by Hindupur Avinash | March 3, 2012, 9:56 AMDear avinash,
Good that your batch mates are very actively participating in extra-curriculars.. In our times.. we missed all of this.
Nice pictures !
Posted by Saikrishna | May 21, 2012, 10:06 AM