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PERIYAR BIRDS


320 species of birds are so far check listed from Periyar. The birds include raptors, water birds, galliform birds, pigeons, wood peckers and passerines. The reserve has a good distribution of southern western ghat endemics. All disjunct species, that occur in the eastern Himalaya but absent in between are reported from Periyar. A third of all the birds found in Periyar are trans-asian migrants.

Buceros bicornis, enjoys a wide distribution in the evergreen and semi-evergreen forest tracts at all elevations. Their distribution appears to be related to the occurrence of old growth forest patches of trees belonging to Moraceae and Lauraceae.

The ceylon frogmouth Batracostomus moniliger, a nocturnal bird is commonly found in the moist forests of the reserve

Western ghat endemics found in Periyar

1

Malabar grey hornbill

Tockus griseus

2

Nilgiri wood pigeon

Columba elphinstoni

3

Blue winged parakeet

Pscittacula columboides

4

Crimson throated barbet

Megalaima rubricapilla

5

Rufous babbler

Turdoides subrufus

6

White breasted laughting thrush

Garrulax jerdoni

7

Black & orange flycatcher

Muscicapa nigrorufa

8

Nilgiri flycatcher

Megalaima albicaudata

9

White bellied blue flycatcher

M. pallipes

10

Broad tailed grass warbler

Schoericola platyura

11

Nilgiri pipit

Anthus nilgiriensis

12

White bellied shortwing

Brachypteryx major

13

Small sunbird

Nectarinia minima

     

Disjunct species

1

Black baza

Aviceda leuphotes

2

Rufous bellied hawk eagle

Lophotriorchis kienerii

3

Great pied hornbill

Buceros bicornis

4

Forest eagle owl

Bubo nipalensis

5

Ceylon frogmouth

Batrachostomus moniliger

6

Great eared nightjar

Eurostopodus macrotis

7

Broad billed roller

Eurystomus orientalis

8

Nilgiri thrush

Zoothera dauma

9

Little spider hunter

Arachnothera longipennis

     

 

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