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Hi there
This spot is for updates on birdwatching trips out and about round the Kathmandu valley with Vimal Thapa and friends of birds - i shall update with most recent trips first! The info will tell you where we ewnt and what we saw
Tau Dah - November 2008
Dear all -It was nice birding together with all of you at Tau Dah and Bagmati area. Thanks for joining for this birding trip. Please find the name of participants and birds recorded.
Participants: Steve, Mandy, Ellen, Deepak, Surbendra, Raj, Suman, Sitaram, Vimal, Deepak's friend and Raj's teacher and his Subekash (grade5)
The birds are:
1. Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea - 4
2. Gadwall Anas strepera - 37+
3. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos - 10?
4. Ferruginous Pochard Aythya nyroca - 4
5. White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis
6. Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
7. Rock Pigeon Columba livia
8. Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
9. Common Coot Fulica atra
10. Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
11. Common Sandpiper Tringa hypoleucos
12. Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus - 25+
13. Black Kite Milvus migrans
14. Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis
15. Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
16. Great Cormorant Phalocrocorax carbo - 10+
17. Little Egret Egretta garzetta
18. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
19. Indian Pond Heron Ardeola grayii
20. Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
21. Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus
22. Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
23. House Crow Corvus splendens
24. Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
25. Oriental Magpie Robin Copsychus saularis
26. Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni
27. Common StonechatSaxicola torquata
28. Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
29. Jungle Myna Acridotheres fuscus
30. Red-rumped Swallow Hirundo daurica
31. Red-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus cafer
32. Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
33. House Sparrow Passer domesticus
34. White Wagtail Motacilla alba
35. Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
If there is any list left out please feel free to add on it.
See you again in next birding friends
Vimal Thapa
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