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| Photographed near Chitin, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL 104
Found in marshes, along muddy edges of rivers and lakes. 27-29 cm. Locally frequent winter visitor and passage, migrant.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
COMMON REDSHANK
NEPAL 104
Found in marshes, along muddy edges of rivers and lakes. 27-29 cm. Locally frequent winter visitor and passage, migrant.
GADWELL
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| Photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL 103
Found in freshwater marshes and lakes with extensive aquatic and emergent vegetation. 39-43 cm. Locally fairly common winter visitor and passage migrant.
EUROPEAN WIGEON
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| Photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL 102
Shallow waters, open lakes, reservoirs, rivers, pools and marshes. 45-51 cm. Winter visitor and passage migrant.
STRIATED BABBLER
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| Photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL
Found in tall grasses and reed beds in damper habitats. 21 cm. Resident, locally common in protected areas, rare elsewhere.
GREAT MYNA
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| Photographed in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL 100
Found in cultivation and grassland. 25 cm. Rare, very local resident, has bred in Koshi area in east; recently colonised Nepal and may spread.
NOTE: Formerly treated as conspecific with White-vented Myna A cinereus.
YELLOW-FOOTED GREEN PIGEON
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| Kochi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL 99
Found in deciduous forest and fruiting trees around villages and cultivation. 33 cm. Widespread and locally common resident.
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON
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| Photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL 98
Found in ponds, lakes and tanks. 58-65 cm. Locally common summer visitor and resident.
NORTHERN PINTAIL
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| Photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal, march 2017 |
NEPAL 97
Forages by night and early morning and evening in marshes and flooded paddy fields, roosts by day on open waters with aquatic vegetation. 51-56 cm. Passage migrant and winter visitor.
LARGE CUCKOO-SHRIKE
TEMMINCK’S STINT
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| Kochi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL 95
Favours vegetated freshwater habitats: marshes, pools, lakes, wet fields and riverbanks. 13-15 cm. Fairly common winter visitor and passage migrant.
INDIAN GREY HORNBILL
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| Kochi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal March 2017 |
NEPAL 94
Found in open deciduous and wooded areas with fruiting trees. 50 cm. Local, frequent resident.
PURPLE SWAMPHEN
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| Kochi tap Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL 93
Inhabits dense roadbeds at pool edges and in marshes. 45-50 cm. Chiefly a winter visitor and passage migrant, also breeds locally.
NOTE: Indian subspecies sometimes treated as separate species Grey-headed Swamphen P. poliocephalus.
BROWN FISH OWL
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| Kochi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal March 2017 |
NEPAL 92
Inhabits forests and well-wooded areas near water. 56 cm. Local and uncommon resident.
LESSER WHISTLING DUCK
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| Photographed in Chitin NP, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL (91)
Found in flooded grassland and paddy fields, freshwater marshes, and shallow pools and lakes with plentiful fringe cover, emergent vegetation and partially submerged trees. 42 cm. Local breeding resident.
GREAT BARBET
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| Photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL 90
Found in mostly moist, broadleaved forest; also well-wooded country. 33 cm. Common, widespread resident.
PLAIN MARTIN
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| Kochi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, March 2017 |
NEPAL 89
Found around rivers and lakes. 12 cm. Locally common resident, mainly in south.
NOTE: May be split and local form chinensis will become Grey-throated Martin.
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