Lumbini Crane Conservation Center

A joint effort between Nepalese Crane Conservationists and International Crane Foundation, USA

 

Common birds of the Lumbini Crane Sanctuary

Why go birding?

Birding is a delightful hobby you can enjoy at any age or time of year. It makes no difference whether you are alone or in a group, living in the city or the country, as long as you have eyes to see and ears to hear.

Birds are everywhere. You can choose to watch one pair feeding in your backyard, or thousands at migratory stops in a marsh. The variety of calls, colors, sizes, and songs is endless, and provides a great deal. You can make.

Where and When?

Birds, like people, live in communities. A biological community, such as a wetland or a prairie, is a network of plants and animals interacting with each other within a given area. Environmental conditions like hydrology, climate and soils also shape the community, as do periodic events such as fire, flood, and wind. In a healthy community, each organism depends on several others for its continued survival.

Each species of bird requires food, water, nesting sites, and other resources. The area, which provides these essential resources, is called the species’ habitat. In general, a greater variety of birds are found in areas where two or more communities meet, since this area will contain diversity of habitats.

For instance in LCS, you may find Sarus Crane, cormorants, ducks etc feeding on wetland, next to wetland cuckoos sing a song, parakeets perch on tree, several forest birds roost in the forest. In the nearby forest, you may watch hen harrier, pied harrier and storks roost in the grasslands. Around the LCS, there are farmlands where you may find storks, cranes, bee eaters, kingfishers, etc with their much joyful activities.

Birds are most active at sunrise and sunset in the spring and early summer. For the best birding, get up at sunrise, or take an evening walk.

We have recorded over 210 species of birds in and around the LCS at Lumbini.

1.	Little Grebe	71.	Pied Harrier	141.	Greater racket tail drongo
2.	Great Crested Greb	72.	Marsh Harrier	142.	Grey Headed Myna
3.	Great Cormorant	73.	Red thighed Falconet	143.	Brahminy Myna
4.	Little Cormorant	74.	Peregrine Falcon	144.	Pied Myna
5.	Lesser whistling duck	75.	Merlin	145.	Common Myna
6.	Common teal	76.	Eurasian Kestrel	146.	Bank Myna
7.	Cotton teal	77.	Barn Owl	147.	Jungle Myna
8.	Eurasian wigeon	78.	Forest Eagle Owl	148.	Indian Treepie
9.	Ruddy shelduck	79.	Great Horned Owl	149.	Small Coucal
10.	Cinnamon Bittern	80.	Jungle Owlet	150.	Large Coucal
11.	Yellow Bittern	81.	Spotted Owlet	151.	Jungle Crow
12.	Gray heron	82.	Brown Hawk Owl	152.	House Crow
13.	Purple Heron	83.	Black Patridge	153.	Lesser Wood Shrike
14.	Little Green heron	84.	Kalij Pheasant	154.	Large Cuckoo Shrike
15.	Pond heron	85.	Red Jungle Fowl	155.	Golden Fronted Leaf bird
16.	Night heron	86.	Bengal Green Pigeon	156.	Iora
17.	Cattle egret	87.	Blue Rock Pigeonl	157.	Blue throat
18.	Large egret	88.	Eurasian Collared Dove	158.	Scarlet Minivet
19.	Intermediate egret	89.	Rufous turtle Dove	159.	Small Minivet
20.	Little egret	90.	Red turtle Dove	160.	Red Vented Bulbul
21.	Painted Stork	91.	Spotted Dove	161.	Red Whiskered Bulbul
22.	Open-billed Stork	92.	Rose ringed Parakeet	162.	Large Grey Babbler
23.	Wooly necked stork	93.	Plum headed Parakeet	163.	Jungle Babbler
24.	Black Stork	94.	Pied crested Cuckoo	164.	Red Breasted Flycatcher
25.	Lesser adjutant Stork	95.	Common Hawk Cuckoo	165.	Slaty Blue Flycatcher
26.	Demoiselle Crane	96.	Indian Cuckoo	166.	White Throated F. F.
27.	Sarus Crane	97.	Koel Cuckoo	167.	White Breasted FF
28.	White Ibis	98.	Sirkeer Cuckoo	168.	Brook's flycatcher
29.	Black Ibis	99.	Dark Roller	169.	Gray Headed Flycatcher
30.	Eurasian Spoonbill	100.	Indian roller	170.	Zitting Cisticola
31.	Brown Crake	101.	Hoopoe	171.	Oriental White Eye
32.	White breasted Waterhen	102.	Pied Kingfisher	172.	Rufous Prinia
33.	Indian Gallinule	103.	Eurasian Kingfisher	173.	Jungle Prinia
34.	Water cock	104.	Stork-billed Kingfisher	174.	Gray Capped Prinia
35.	Coot	105.	White breasted Kingfisher	175.	Plain Prinia
36.	Pheasant tailed Jacana	106.	Chestnu headed Beeeater	176.	Ashy Prinia
37.	Bronze winged Jacana	107.	Blue tailed Bee eate	177.	Tailor bird
38.	Red wattled Lapwing	108.	Green Bee eater	178.	Hodgson'a Prinia
39.	Yellow wattled Lapwing	109.	Gray Hornbill	179.	Smoky leaf Warbler
40.	Gray headed Lapwing	110.	Lineated Barbet	180.	Paddy field Warbler
41.	River Lapwing	111.	Crimson breasted Barbet	181.	Blyth's warbler
42.	Greenshank	112.	Wry neck	182.	Plain Leaf Warbler
43.	Green Sandpiper	113.	Gray crowned pigmy woodpecker	183.	Dusky Leaf Warbler
44.	Common sandpiper	114.	Lesser Golden backed woodpecker	184.	Yellow Rumped Leaf Warbler
45.	Little Ringed Plover	115.	Fulvous breasted pied woodpecker	185.	Large Crowned Leaf Warbler
46.	Little Stint	116.	Indian Pitta	186.	Black Redstart
47.	Common Snipe	117.	Bush lark	187.	Slaty Backed Forktail
48.	Pintail Snipe	118.	Rufous tailed finch lark	188.	Robin Dayal
49.	Eurasian Thicknee	119.	Sand lark	189.	Plumbeous Red Start
50.	Black Shouldered Kite	120.	Crested Lark	190.	Collard Bushchat
51.	Honey Kite	121.	Oriental Skylark	191.	Pied Buschat
52.	Dark Kite	122.	Red Breasted Pipit	192.	Indian Robin
53.	Brahminy Kite	123.	Richard's Pipit	193.	Dark Throated Thrush
54.	Goshawk	124.	Olive Backed Pipit	194.	Orange Headed Ground Thrush
55.	Sparrow Hawk	125.	White Browed Wagtail	195.	Gray Tit
56.	Besra	126.	Pied Wagtail	196.	Chestnut Bellied Nuthach
57.	Shikra	127.	Citrine Wagtail	197.	Thickbilled Flowerpecker
58.	White eyed Hawk	128.	Yellow Wagtail	198.	Purple sunbird
59.	Crested Serpent eagle	129.	Grey Wagtail	199.	House Sparrow
60.	Changeable Hawk Eagle	130.	Bay Backed shrike	200.	Tree Sparrow
61.	Bonellis eagle	131.	Black headed Shrike	201.	Yellow-throated Sparrow
62.	Short toed Eagle	132.	Grey Backed Shrike	202.	Baya Weaver
63.	Lesser Spotted Eagle	133.	Brown shrike	203.	Black breasted Weaver
64.	Steppe Eagle	134.	Golden Oriole	204.	Red Munia
65.	Osprey	135.	Black Headed Oriole	205.	Black headed Munia
66.	Cinereous Vulture	136.	White bellied Drongo	206.	Indian Silverbill
67.	Long billed Vulture	137.	Hair Crested Drongo	207.	Scaly breasted Munia
68.	White backed Vulture	138.	Black Drongo	208.	Crested bunting
69.	Egyptian Vulture	139.	Little Bronzed Drongo	209.	Red Rumped Swallow
70.	Hen Harrier	140.	Lesser racket tail drongo	210.	Barn Swallow

Chhatrapati 90, Kathmandu, Nepal
977-1-4252417, 977-71-580186
info@lumbinicrane.org