Some Birds of Kanha in Pictures & Checklist

Julien Gonin Birder France & Guests at Courtyard House Kanha

Though the surprise find was the crimson sunbird at Kanha National Park, I could not photograph it. My guests did perhaps?  I managed to photograph the Malabar Pied Hornbill and White Cheeked Orange Headed Ground Thrush. We saw many other species like:

1. Crimson Sunbird
2. Verditor Flycatcher
3. Blue Capped Rock Thrush
4. White Cheeked Orange Headed Ground Thrush
5. Chestnut Bellied Nuthatch
6. Brown Capped Pygmy Woodpecker
7. Black Naped Monarch
8. Black Rumped Flameback
9. White Naped Woodpecker
10. Blyth's Leaf Warbler 
11. Greenish Warbler
12. Hume's Warbler
13. White Browed Flycatcher
14. Puff Throated Warbler
15. Barred Jungle Owlet
16. Indian Scops Owl
17. Honey Buzzard
18. Grey Francolin
19. Brown Cheeked Fulvetta
20. Brown Headed Barbet
21. Alexandrine Parakeet
22. Plum Headed Parakeet
23. Rose Ringed Parakeet
24. Large Grey Cuckooshrike
25. Common Hawk Cuckoo
26. Shikra
27. Crested Serpent Eagle
28. Wooly Necked Stork
29. Black Stork
30. Lesser Whistling Teal
31. Common Teal
32. Green Sandpiper
33. Eurasian Thicknee
34. Yellow Wattled Lapwing
35. Red Wattled Lapwing
36. White Bellied Drongo
37. Racket Tailed Drongo
38. Common Kestrel
39. Crested Serpent Eagle
40. Crested Hawk Eagle
41. Plain Prinia
42. Ashy Prinia
43. Magpie Robin
44. Red Rumped Swallow
45. Barn Swallow
46. Wire Tailed Swallow
47. Streak Throated Swallow
48. Plain Martin
49. Dusky Crag Martin
50. Crested Treeswift
51. Black Headed Oriole
52. Golden Oriole
53. Coucal
54. Indian Roller
55. Paradise Flycatcher
56. Common Woodshrike
57. White Rumped Shama
58. Large Billed Crow
59. Gray Headed Canary Flycatcher
60. Brahminy Myna
61. Thick Billed Flowerpecker
62. White Eye
63. Golden Fronted Leafbird
64. Pied Starling
65. Rufus treepie
66. Great Tit
67.  Black Lored Tit
68.  Red Naped Ibis 
69. Little Egret
70. Black Redstart
71. Scarlet Minivet
72. Sirkeer Malkoha
73. Green Pigeon
74. Oriental Turtle Dove
75. Spotted Dove
76. Indian Silver Bill
77. Peacock
78. Red Spurfowl
79. Red Jungle Fowl
80. Black Shouldered Kite
81. Common Kingfisher
82. Whitethroated Kingfisher
83. Grey Breasted Prinia
84. Paddyfield Pipit
85. Crimson Barbet
86. Brown Shrike
87. Long Tailed Shrike
88. Little Grebe

Malabar Pied Hornbill

Orange Headed Ground Thrush

Sirkeer Malkoha 

Green Pigeon

Wooly necked Stork

White Backed Vulture

Scarlet Minivet

We head a good bird watching trip at Kanha but we also spent lot of time searching for tigers and other enchanting mammals.

Julien Gonin is a professional birder and organises tours for bird watching and wildlife.

Uday Works as Sr. Naturalist at Kanha National Park. He can be reached at pateluday90@hotmail.com