What is a bird? A Bird has been described as a "Feathered Biped". This description is apt and precise, and can apply to no other animal. Birds are vertebrate warm-blooded animals. To assist in maintaining an even temperature, the body of a bird is covered with non-conducting feathers-its chief characteristic which in details of structure and arrangement reflect the mode of life of the group to which the bird belongs. The following are list of documented birds of both resident and migratory birds by India's noted naturalist Salim Ali in his book, "The Book of Indian Birds", Published by Oxford University Press.List of Indian Birds- (About 300 in Number) Spottedbilled or Grey Pelican, Little Cormorant, Darter of Snake-bird, Spoonbill,Little Egret, India ReefHeron, Grey Heron, Cattle Egret, Little Green Bittern, Paddy Bird or Pond Heron, Night Heron, Chestnut Bittern, White necked Stork, White Stork, Black Ibis, White Ibis, Black necked Stork, Painted Stork, Openbilled Stork, Adjutant Stork, Flamingo,Barheaded Goose, Cotton Teal, Nakta or Comb Duck, Spotbill or Grey Duck, Shoveller, White-eyed Pochard, Little Grebe or Dabchick, The Ruddy Sheldrake or Brahminy Duck, Pintail, Common Teal, Garganey or Bluewinged Teal, Mallard, Gadwall, Wigeon, Tufted Pochard, Pinkheaded Duck, Redcrested Pochard, Mountain Quail, Jerdon's or Doublebanded Courser, Black or King Vulture, Whitebacked or Bengal Vulture, White Scavenger Vulture or Pharaoh's Chicken, Laggar Falcon, Blackwinged Kite, Common Pariah Kite, The Brahminy Kite, The Pale Harrier, White-eyed Buzzard, Crested Hawk-Eagle, Palla s or Ringtailed Fishing Eagle, Crested Serpent Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Short-toed Eagle, Reheaded Merlin, Kestrel, Whitebellied Sea Eagle, Shahin Falcon, Painted Sandgrouse, Oystercatcher, Black Partridge, Painted Partridge, Grey Partridge, Common or Bluelegged Bustard-Quail, Blackbreasted or Rain Quail, Common or Grey Quail, Jungle Bush Quail, Red Spurfowl, Grey Junglefowl, Red Junglefowl, Common Peafowl, Common Sandgrouse, Sarus Crane, Demoiselle Crane, Great India Bustard, Lesser Florican, Indian Moorhen, Whitebreasted Waterhen, Purple Moorhen, Indian or Yellowlegged Button Quail, Coot, Painted Snipe, Phesant-tailed Jacana, Bronzewinged Jacana, Redwattled Lapwing, Yellow-wattled Lapwing, Little Ringed Plover, Indian Whiskered Tern, Spurwinged Plover, Golden Plover, Ruff and Reeve, Blacktailed Godwit, Avocet, Blackwinged Stilt, Curlew, Wood or Spotted Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Little Stint, Common or Fantail Snipe, Stone Curlew, Indian Courser, Brownheaded Gull, River Tern, Shikra, Blue Rock Pigeon, Common Green Pigeon, Emerald or Bronzewinged Dove, Spotted Dove, Red Turtle Dove, Ring Dove, Little Brown Dove, Alexandrine or Large Indian Parakeet, Roseringed Parakeet, Koel, Cro-Phesant or Coucal, Common Hawk-Cuckoo or Brainfever Bird, Pied Crested Cuckoo, Crimsonbreasted Barget or Coppersmith, Bluethroated Barget, Sirkeer Cuckoo, Plaintive Cuckoo, Crested Tree Swift, Malabar Pied Hornbill, Barn or Screech Owl, Brwon Fish Owl, India Great Horned owl, Common India Nightjar, Collard Scops Owl, Sthe Spotted Owlet, Barred Jungle Owiet, Osprey, Palm Swift, House Swift, Alpine Swift, Hoope, Blossomheaded Parakeet, Lorikeet, Roller or Blue Jay, Small Green Bee eater, Bluetailed Bee-eater, Chesnut-headed Bee-eater, Pied Kingfisher, Small Blue Kingfisher, Whitebreasted Kingfisher, Blackcapped Kingfisher, Brownheaded Storkbilled Kingfisher, Common Grey Hornbill, Rufous Woodpecker, Goldenbacked Woodpecker, Yellownfronted Pied or Maharatta Woodpecker, Indian Pitta, Pigmy Woodpecker, Wryneck, Blackheaded Yellow Bulbul, Yellow Wagtail, Crested Lark, Indian Small Skylark, Common Swallow, Dusky Crag Martin, Grey Shrike, Baybacked Shrike, Rufousbacked Shrike, Common Wood Shrike, Black Drongo or King Crow, Whitebellied Drongo, Racket-tailed Drongo, Ashy Swallow-Shrike, Golden Oriole, Blacheaded Oriole, Hill Myna, Rosy Pastor or Rosecoloured Starling, Greyheaded Myna, Bank Myna, India Myna, Brahminy or Blackheaded Myna, Jungle Crow, House Crow, Tree Pie, Grey Tit, Blackheaded Cuckoo-Shrike, Large Cuckoo-Shrike, Small Minivet, Scarlet Minivet,Goldfronted Chloropsis or Green Bulbul, Iora, Quacker Babbler, Spotted Babbler, Goldmantled Chloropsis, Redvented Bulbul, Whitechecked Bubbul, Redwhiskered Bulbul, Slatyheaded Scimitar Babller, Rufousbellied Babbler, Yelloweyed Babbler, Common Babbler, Tickell s Blue Flycatcher, Verditer Flycatcher, Whitespotted Fantail Flycatcher, Paradise Flycatcher, Blacknaped Blue Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Orphean Warbler, Jungle Myna, Large Grey Babbler, Redbreasted Flycatcher, Greyheated Flycatcher, Bluethroat, Streaked Fantail Warbler, Indian Wren-Warbler, Ashy Wren-Warbler, Tailor Bird, Magpie-Robin, Shama, Indian Robin, Blackbird, Blueheaded Rock Thrush, Blue Rock Thrush, Malabar Wlhistling Thrush, Whitethroated Gound Thrush, Pied Bushchat, Collared Bushchat, Redstart, Whitebrowedn Bulbul, Yellowchecked Tit, Chesnutbellied Nuthatch, Velvetfronted Nuthatch, Jungle Babbler, Yellowheaded Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, White Wagtail, Large Pied Wagtail, Tickell s Flowerpecker, Firebreasted Flowerpecker, Purplerumped Sunbird, Yellowbacked Sunbird, Purple Sunbird, White-eye, Blackbellied finch-Lark, Rufoustailed Finch-Lark, Baya Weaver Bird, Streaked Weaver Bird, Whitethroated Munia, Whitbacked Munia, Blackbreasted Weaver Bird, Green Munia, Thicbilled Flowerpecker, Pied Myna, Red Munia or Waxbill, Spotted Munia, Blackheaded Munia, Rosefinch, House Sparrow, Yellowthroated Sparrow, Blackheaded Bunting, Readheaded Bunting, Indian Cliff Swallow, Pied Flycatcher-Shrike, lesser Whistling Teal, Indian Skimmer, Small Pratincole or Swallow-Plover, Nilgiri Wood Pigeon, Painted Spurfowl, Painted Bush Quail, Nilgiri Laughing Thrush, Kerala Laughing Thrush, Wynad Laughing Thrush, Rufuous Babbler, Nilgiri Verditer Flycatcher, Whitebellied Blue Flycatcher, Black-and-Orange Flycatcher, Pairy Bluebird, Yellowbrowed Bulbul, Black Bulbul, Whitebellied Tree Pie, Bluewinged Parakeet, Mottled Wood Owl, Brown Hawk-Owl, Greyheaded Fishing Eagle, Pied Harrier,Great Stone Plover, Kora or Watercock, Slatylegged Banded Crake, Baillon s Crake, Maroonbacked Imperial Pigeon, Greyfronted Green Pigeon, Harcrested Drongo, Caspian Tern, Small Greenbilled Malkoha, Southern Trogon, Heartspotted Woodpecker, Small Yellownaped Woodpecker.
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