After my big year in 2014 (see here: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=275144) this year will be a bit more relaxed. I started the year in India, another trip to India is planned in April/May (the northeast) and hopefully a trip to Namibia in summer.
Like last year the taxonomy follows IOC and lifers are in bold.
On the first day of the year I arrived in Coimbatore in the morning. However, my local guide was nowhere to be seen and after a few calls he admitted that he forgot me. I took a taxi to his place in Kerala and finally I could do some birding in late afternoon.
1. January - Thattekad, Kerala, India
1: Lesser Whistling Duck
2: Asian Openbill
3: Indian Pond Heron
4: Eastern Cattle Egret
5: Purple Heron
6: Intermediate Egret
7: Little Egret
8: Little Cormorant
9: Changeable Hawk-Eagle
10: Black Kite
11: Brahminy Kite
12: White-breasted Waterhen
13: Red-wattled Lapwing
14: Pin-tailed Snipe
15: Whiskered Tern
16: Rock Dove (feral)
17: Rose-ringed Parakeet
18: Asian Koel
19: Crested Treeswift
20: Asian Palm Swift
21: Indian Roller
22: White-throated Kingfisher
23: Common Kingfisher
24: Green Bee-eater
25: Blue-tailed Bee-eater
26: Malabar Grey Hornbill
27: Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
28: Black-rumped Flameback
29: Ashy Woodswallow
30: Brown Shrike
31: Indian Golden Oriole
32: Black Drongo
33: Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
34: Rufous Treepie
35: House Crow
36: Indian Jungle Crow
37: Red-whiskered Bulbul
38: Barn Swallow
39: Red-rumped Swallow
40: Common Tailorbird
41: Common Myna
42: Malabar Starling
43: Oriental Magpie-Robin
44: Golden-fronted Leafbird
45: Thick-billed Flowerpecker
46: Pale-billed Flowerpecker
47: Purple-rumped Sunbird
48: Purple Sunbird
49: White-browed Wagtail
Pictures: White-browed Wagtail and Rufous Treepie
Like last year the taxonomy follows IOC and lifers are in bold.
On the first day of the year I arrived in Coimbatore in the morning. However, my local guide was nowhere to be seen and after a few calls he admitted that he forgot me. I took a taxi to his place in Kerala and finally I could do some birding in late afternoon.
1. January - Thattekad, Kerala, India
1: Lesser Whistling Duck
2: Asian Openbill
3: Indian Pond Heron
4: Eastern Cattle Egret
5: Purple Heron
6: Intermediate Egret
7: Little Egret
8: Little Cormorant
9: Changeable Hawk-Eagle
10: Black Kite
11: Brahminy Kite
12: White-breasted Waterhen
13: Red-wattled Lapwing
14: Pin-tailed Snipe
15: Whiskered Tern
16: Rock Dove (feral)
17: Rose-ringed Parakeet
18: Asian Koel
19: Crested Treeswift
20: Asian Palm Swift
21: Indian Roller
22: White-throated Kingfisher
23: Common Kingfisher
24: Green Bee-eater
25: Blue-tailed Bee-eater
26: Malabar Grey Hornbill
27: Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
28: Black-rumped Flameback
29: Ashy Woodswallow
30: Brown Shrike
31: Indian Golden Oriole
32: Black Drongo
33: Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
34: Rufous Treepie
35: House Crow
36: Indian Jungle Crow
37: Red-whiskered Bulbul
38: Barn Swallow
39: Red-rumped Swallow
40: Common Tailorbird
41: Common Myna
42: Malabar Starling
43: Oriental Magpie-Robin
44: Golden-fronted Leafbird
45: Thick-billed Flowerpecker
46: Pale-billed Flowerpecker
47: Purple-rumped Sunbird
48: Purple Sunbird
49: White-browed Wagtail
Pictures: White-browed Wagtail and Rufous Treepie