Bird Species Checklist
A comprehensive list of bird species recorded in the Bangalore region, including Western Ghats endemics, waterbirds, raptors and forest species. Use the search box to find any species by common or scientific name.
389Species Recorded
30WG Endemics
33Families
–Showing
🐦 Babbler 12
Wayanad Laughingthrush
Pterorhinus delesserti
Tawny-bellied Babbler
Dumetia hyperythra
Brown-cheeked Fulvetta
Alcippe poioicephala
Large Grey Babbler
Argya malcolmi
Yellow-eyed Babbler
Chrysomma sinense
Common Babbler
Argya caudata
Yellow-billed Babbler
Argya affinis
Rufous Babbler
Argya subrufa
Jungle Babbler
Argya striata
Dark-fronted Babbler
Dumetia atriceps
Puff-throated Babbler
Pellorneum ruficeps
Indian Scimitar-Babbler
Pomatorhinus horsfieldii
🎨 Barbet 4
Brown-headed Barbet
Psilopogon zeylanicus
Coppersmith Barbet
Psilopogon haemacephalus
Malabar Barbet
Psilopogon malabaricus
White-cheeked Barbet
Psilopogon viridis
🌈 Bee-eater 5
European Bee-eater
Merops apiaster
Blue-bearded Bee-eater
Nyctyornis athertoni
Blue-tailed Bee-eater
Merops philippinus
Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
Merops leschenaulti
Asian Green Bee-eater
Merops orientalis
🌿 Bittern 3
Cinnamon Bittern
Botaurus cinnamomeus
Black Bittern
Botaurus flavicollis
Yellow Bittern
Botaurus sinensis
🎶 Bulbul 8
Square-tailed Bulbul (Black Bulbul)
Hypsipetes ganeesa
Grey-headed Bulbul
Microtarsus priocephalus
Yellow-throated Bulbul
Pycnonotus xantholaemus
Flame-throated Bulbul (Ruby-throated Bulbul)
Rubigula gularis
Yellow-browed Bulbul
Acritillas indica
Red-vented Bulbul
Pycnonotus cafer
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Pycnonotus jocosus
White-browed Bulbul
Pycnonotus luteolus
🌾 Bunting 2
Grey-necked Bunting (Grey-hooded Bunting)
Emberiza buchanani
Red-headed Bunting
Emberiza bruniceps
💧 Cormorant / Darter 4
Indian Cormorant (Indian Shag)
Phalacrocorax fuscicollis
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carbo
Little Cormorant
Microcarbo niger
Oriental Darter
Anhinga melanogaster
🎵 Cuckoo / Koel / Coucal 15
Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
Clamator coromandus
Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
Surniculus dicruroides
Lesser Coucal
Centropus bengalensis
Sirkeer Malkoha
Taccocua leschenaultii
Black-headed Cuckooshrike
Lalage melanoptera
Banded Bay Cuckoo
Cacomantis sonneratii
Grey-bellied Cuckoo
Cacomantis passerinus
Indian Cuckoo
Cuculus micropterus
Indian Cuckooshrike
Coracina macei
Large Hawk-Cuckoo
Hierococcyx sparverioides
Common Hawk-Cuckoo
Hierococcyx varius
Greater Coucal
Centropus sinensis
Asian Koel
Eudynamys scolopaceus
Pied Cuckoo (Jacobin Cuckoo)
Clamator jacobinus
Blue-faced Malkoha
Phaenicophaeus viridirostris
🕊 Dove / Pigeon 14
Mountain Imperial-Pigeon
Ducula badia
Orange-breasted Green-Pigeon
Treron bicinctus
Red Collared-Dove (Red Turtle-Dove)
Streptopelia tranquebarica
Grey-fronted Green-Pigeon (Pompadour Green-Pigeon)
Treron affinis
Green Imperial-Pigeon
Ducula aenea
Malabar Imperial-Pigeon
Ducula cuprea
Yellow-footed Green-Pigeon
Treron phoenicopterus
Asian Emerald Dove
Chalcophaps indica
Oriental Turtle-Dove
Streptopelia orientalis
Laughing Dove (Little Brown Dove)
Spilopelia senegalensis
Spotted Dove
Spilopelia chinensis
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Streptopelia decaocto
Nilgiri Wood-Pigeon
Columba elphinstonii
Rock Pigeon (Blue Rock Pigeon)
Columba livia
🦆 Duck / Goose / Grebe 12
Northern Pintail
Anas acuta
Eurasian Wigeon
Mareca penelope
Northern Shoveler
Spatula clypeata
Bar-headed Goose
Anser indicus
Garganey
Spatula querquedula
Cotton Pygmy-Goose (Cotton Teal)
Nettapus coromandelianus
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollis
Common Pochard
Aythya ferina
Green-winged Teal (Common Teal)
Anas crecca
Indian Spot-billed Duck
Anas poecilorhyncha
Gadwall
Mareca strepera
Lesser Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna javanica
🦅 Eagle / Hawk / Kite / Falcon / Harrier 38
Rock Eagle-Owl (Indian Eagle-Owl)
Bubo bengalensis
Long-legged Buzzard
Buteo rufinus
Bonelli's Eagle
Aquila fasciata
Montagu's Harrier
Circus pygargus
Rufous-bellied Eagle
Lophotriorchis kienerii
Red-necked Falcon
Falco chicquera
Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
Legge's Hawk-Eagle
Nisaetus kelaarti
Indian Spotted Eagle
Clanga hastata
Lesser Fish-Eagle
Icthyophaga humilis
Tawny Eagle
Aquila rapax
Brown Hawk-Owl (Brown Boobook)
Ninox scutulata
Steppe Eagle
Aquila nipalensis
Greater Spotted Eagle
Clanga clanga
Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl
Ketupa nipalensis
Black Eagle
Ictinaetus malaiensis
Jerdon's Baza
Aviceda jerdoni
Pallid Harrier
Circus macrourus
Changeable Hawk-Eagle
Nisaetus cirrhatus
Black Baza
Aviceda leuphotes
Eurasian Kestrel (Common Kestrel)
Falco tinnunculus
Western Marsh Harrier
Circus aeruginosus
White-eyed Buzzard
Butastur teesa
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinus
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Accipiter nisus
Eastern Marsh Harrier
Circus spilonotus
Oriental Honey-buzzard (Crested Honey Buzzard)
Pernis ptilorhynchus
Grey-headed Fish-Eagle
Icthyophaga ichthyaetus
Crested Goshawk
Lophospiza trivirgata
Black-winged Kite (Black-shouldered Kite)
Elanus caeruleus
Crested Serpent-Eagle
Spilornis cheela
Common Buzzard
Buteo buteo
Brahminy Kite
Haliastur indus
Black Kite
Milvus migrans
Shikra
Tachyspiza badia
Besra
Tachyspiza virgata
Booted Eagle
Hieraaetus pennatus
Short-toed Snake-Eagle
Circaetus gallicus
🦢 Egret / Heron / Ibis 16
Western Reef-Heron (Western Reef-Egret)
Egretta gularis
Malayan Night Heron
Gorsachius melanolophus
Spot-billed Pelican
Pelecanus philippensis
Red-naped Ibis (Indian Black Ibis)
Pseudibis papillosa
Black-headed Ibis
Threskiornis melanocephalus
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellus
Purple Heron
Ardea purpurea
Grey Heron
Ardea cinerea
Medium Egret (Intermediate Egret)
Ardea intermedia
Great Egret
Ardea alba
Eastern Cattle-Egret
Ardea coromanda
Indian Pond-Heron
Ardeola grayii
Striated Heron (Little Heron)
Butorides atricapilla
Little Egret
Egretta garzetta
Black-crowned Night Heron
Nycticorax nycticorax
Eurasian Spoonbill
Platalea leucorodia
🪄 Flycatcher / Fantail / Monarch 17
Taiga Flycatcher (Red-throated Flycatcher)
Ficedula albicilla
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Ficedula parva
Rusty-tailed Flycatcher
Ficedula ruficauda
Black-and-orange Flycatcher
Ficedula nigrorufa
Nilgiri Flycatcher
Eumyias albicaudatus
Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher
Culicicapa ceylonensis
Verditer Flycatcher
Eumyias thalassinus
White-bellied Blue Flycatcher
Cyornis pallidipes
Brown-breasted Flycatcher
Muscicapa muttui
Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
Hemipus picatus
Blue-throated Flycatcher
Cyornis rubeculoides
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Muscicapa dauurica
Black-naped Monarch
Hypothymis azurea
Spot-breasted Fantail (White-spotted Fantail)
Rhipidura albogularis
Ultramarine Flycatcher
Ficedula superciliaris
Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
Cyornis tickelliae
Indian Paradise-Flycatcher
Terpsiphone paradisi
💎 Kingfisher 7
Blue-eared Kingfisher
Alcedo meninting
Black-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher (Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher)
Ceyx erithaca
Black-capped Kingfisher
Halcyon pileata
Common Kingfisher (Small Blue Kingfisher)
Alcedo atthis
Stork-billed Kingfisher
Pelargopsis capensis
Pied Kingfisher
Ceryle rudis
White-throated Kingfisher
Halcyon smyrnensis
🌾 Lark / Bushlark 8
Rufous-tailed Lark
Ammomanes phoenicura
Tawny Lark (Sykes's Lark)
Galerida deva
Jerdon's Bushlark
Plocealauda affinis
Malabar Lark
Galerida malabarica
Oriental Skylark
Alauda gulgula
Singing Bushlark
Mirafra javanica
Indian Bushlark (Red-winged Bushlark)
Plocealauda erythroptera
Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark (Ashy-crowned Finch-Lark)
Eremopterix griseus
🔴 Minivet 5
White-bellied Minivet
Pericrocotus erythropygius
Brown-rumped Minivet
Pericrocotus cantonensis
Ashy Minivet
Pericrocotus divaricatus
Orange Minivet
Pericrocotus flammeus
Small Minivet
Pericrocotus cinnamomeus
🪶 Myna / Starling 9
Rosy Starling
Pastor roseus
European Starling (Common Starling)
Sturnus vulgaris
Malabar Starling (Blyth's Starling)
Sturnia blythii
Chestnut-tailed Starling
Sturnia malabarica
Common Hill Myna
Gracula religiosa
Southern Hill Myna
Gracula indica
Jungle Myna
Acridotheres fuscus
Common Myna
Acridotheres tristis
Brahminy Starling
Sturnia pagodarum
🌙 Nightjar / Frogmouth 5
Savanna Nightjar
Caprimulgus affinis
Jungle Nightjar (Indian Jungle Nightjar)
Caprimulgus indicus
Jerdon's Nightjar
Caprimulgus atripennis
Sri Lanka Frogmouth
Batrachostomus moniliger
Indian Nightjar
Caprimulgus asiaticus
🌟 Oriole 4
Black-hooded Oriole
Oriolus xanthornus
Eurasian Golden Oriole
Oriolus oriolus
Black-naped Oriole
Oriolus chinensis
Indian Golden Oriole
Oriolus kundoo
🦉 Owl / Owlet 12
Indian Scops-Owl (Collared Scops-Owl)
Otus bakkamoena
Mottled Wood-Owl
Strix ocellata
Oriental Scops-Owl
Otus sunia
Asian Barn Owl (Eastern Barn Owl)
Tyto javanica
Jungle Owlet
Glaucidium radiatum
Brown Wood-Owl
Strix leptogrammica
Painted Spurfowl
Galloperdix lunulata
Brown Fish-Owl
Ketupa zeylonensis
Spotted Owlet
Athene brama
Grey Junglefowl
Gallus sonneratii
Red Spurfowl
Galloperdix spadicea
Indian Peafowl
Pavo cristatus
🦜 Parakeet 5
Alexandrine Parakeet
Psittacula eupatria
Vernal Hanging-Parrot (Indian Lorikeet)
Loriculus vernalis
Malabar Parakeet (Blue-winged Parakeet)
Psittacula columboides
Plum-headed Parakeet
Psittacula cyanocephala
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameri
🍂 Pipit 7
Tawny Pipit
Anthus campestris
Olive-backed Pipit
Anthus hodgsoni
Tree Pipit
Anthus trivialis
Nilgiri Pipit
Anthus nilghiriensis
Blyth's Pipit
Anthus godlewskii
Richard's Pipit
Anthus richardi
Paddyfield Pipit
Anthus rufulus
🍂 Robin / Thrush / Chat 13
Blue Rock-Thrush
Monticola solitarius
Malabar Whistling-Thrush
Myophonus horsfieldii
Indian Blue Robin
Larvivora brunnea
Nilgiri Sholakili
Sholicola major
Siberian Stonechat (Common Stonechat)
Saxicola maurus
Indian Blackbird
Turdus simillimus
White-rumped Shama
Copsychus malabaricus
Oriental Magpie-Robin
Copsychus saularis
Pied Bushchat
Saxicola caprata
Blue-capped Rock-Thrush
Monticola cinclorhyncha
Indian Robin
Copsychus fulicatus
Orange-headed Thrush
Geokichla citrina
Pied Thrush
Geokichla wardii
🏖 Waders / Shorebirds 32
Indian Thick-knee (Indian Stone-curlew)
Burhinus indicus
Yellow-legged Buttonquail
Turnix tanki
Western Crowned Warbler
Phylloscopus occipitalis
Pin-tailed Snipe
Gallinago stenura
Caspian Tern
Hydroprogne caspia
Indian Courser
Cursorius coromandelicus
Greater Painted-Snipe
Rostratula benghalensis
Western Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flava
Little Stint
Calidris minuta
Temminck's Stint
Calidris temminckii
Common Greenshank
Tringa nebularia
Small Pratincole
Glareola lactea
Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinago
Whiskered Tern
Chlidonias hybrida
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareola
Little Ringed Plover
Thinornis dubius
Pied Avocet
Recurvirostra avosetta
Marsh Sandpiper
Tringa stagnatilis
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropus
Black-tailed Godwit
Limosa limosa
Bronze-winged Jacana
Metopidius indicus
Pheasant-tailed Jacana
Hydrophasianus chirurgus
Great Thick-knee (Great Stone-curlew)
Esacus recurvirostris
Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
Cecropis daurica
River Tern
Sterna aurantia
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon nilotica
Barred Buttonquail
Turnix suscitator
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Eurasian Curlew
Numenius arquata
Red-wattled Lapwing
Vanellus indicus
Yellow-wattled Lapwing
Vanellus malabaricus
Black-winged Stilt
Himantopus himantopus
⚔️ Shrike / Woodshrike 7
Bay-backed Shrike
Lanius vittatus
Large Woodshrike
Tephrodornis virgatus
Malabar Woodshrike
Tephrodornis sylvicola
Common Woodshrike
Tephrodornis pondicerianus
Great Grey Shrike
Lanius excubitor
Long-tailed Shrike
Lanius schach
Brown Shrike
Lanius cristatus
🌊 Stork 5
Lesser Adjutant
Leptoptilos javanicus
Asian Woolly-necked Stork
Ciconia episcopus
White Stork
Ciconia ciconia
Asian Openbill
Anastomus oscitans
Painted Stork
Mycteria leucocephala
☀️ Sunbird / Spiderhunter 5
Little Spiderhunter
Arachnothera longirostra
Loten's Sunbird (Long-billed Sunbird)
Cinnyris lotenius
Purple Sunbird
Cinnyris asiaticus
Crimson-backed Sunbird (Small Sunbird)
Leptocoma minima
Purple-rumped Sunbird
Leptocoma zeylonica
🌀 Swallow / Martin / Needletail 9
Brown-backed Needletail
Hirundapus giganteus
Dusky Crag-Martin
Ptyonoprogne concolor
White-rumped Spinetail (White-rumped Needletail)
Zoonavena sylvatica
Wire-tailed Swallow
Hirundo smithii
Ashy Woodswallow
Artamus fuscus
Streak-throated Swallow
Petrochelidon fluvicola
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rustica
Hill Swallow (House Swallow)
Hirundo domicola
Eurasian Crag-Martin
Ptyonoprogne rupestris
⚡ Swift / Swiftlet 6
Little Swift (Indian House Swift)
Apus affinis
Crested Treeswift
Hemiprocne coronata
Indian Swiftlet
Aerodramus unicolor
Asian Palm Swift
Cypsiurus balasiensis
House Swift (Nepal House Swift)
Apus nipalensis
Alpine Swift
Tachymarptis melba
🦅 Vulture 4
Red-headed Vulture
Sarcogyps calvus
White-rumped Vulture
Gyps bengalensis
Indian Vulture (Indian Long-billed Vulture)
Gyps indicus
Egyptian Vulture
Neophron percnopterus
🍃 Warbler / Prinia / Cisticola / Iora / Leafbird 25
Golden-headed Cisticola (Bright-headed Cisticola)
Cisticola exilis
Common Grasshopper Warbler
Locustella naevia
Thick-billed Warbler
Arundinax aedon
Sulphur-bellied Warbler
Phylloscopus griseolus
Yellow-browed Warbler
Phylloscopus inornatus
Hume's Warbler
Phylloscopus humei
Tytler's Leaf Warbler
Phylloscopus tytleri
Jerdon's Leafbird (Jerdon's Chloropsis)
Chloropsis jerdoni
Large-billed Leaf Warbler
Phylloscopus magnirostris
Green Warbler
Phylloscopus nitidus
Booted Warbler
Iduna caligata
Zitting Cisticola
Cisticola juncidis
Plain Prinia
Prinia inornata
Paddyfield Warbler
Acrocephalus agricola
Golden-fronted Leafbird (Golden-fronted Chloropsis)
Chloropsis aurifrons
Tickell's Leaf Warbler
Phylloscopus affinis
Clamorous Reed Warbler (Indian Great Reed Warbler)
Acrocephalus stentoreus
Sykes's Warbler
Iduna rama
Common Iora
Aegithina tiphia
Blyth's Reed Warbler
Acrocephalus dumetorum
Greenish Warbler
Phylloscopus trochiloides
Ashy Prinia
Prinia socialis
Jungle Prinia
Prinia sylvatica
Grey-breasted Prinia
Prinia hodgsonii
Common Tailorbird
Orthotomus sutorius
🌳 Woodpecker / Flameback / Piculet 12
Yellow-crowned Woodpecker
Leiopicus mahrattensis
Common Flameback
Dinopium javanense
Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Indian Pygmy Woodpecker)
Yungipicus nanus
Speckled Piculet
Picumnus innominatus
Rufous Woodpecker
Micropternus brachyurus
White-naped Woodpecker
Chrysocolaptes festivus
Streak-throated Woodpecker
Picus xanthopygaeus
White-bellied Woodpecker (Great Black Woodpecker)
Dryocopus javensis
Lesser Yellownape
Picus chlorolophus
Black-rumped Flameback (Lesser Goldenbacked Woodpecker)
Dinopium benghalense
Malabar Flameback
Chrysocolaptes socialis
Heart-spotted Woodpecker
Hemicircus canente
🐦 Other 60
Dollarbird
Eurystomus orientalis
Painted Bush-Quail
Perdicula erythrorhyncha
Streaked Weaver
Ploceus manyar
Painted Sandgrouse
Pterocles indicus
Hair-crested Drongo (Spangled Drongo)
Dicrurus hottentottus
Malabar Pied-Hornbill
Anthracoceros coronatus
Tricolored Munia (Black-headed Munia)
Lonchura malacca
Brown Crake
Zapornia akool
White-bellied Drongo
Dicrurus caerulescens
White-naped Tit (Pied Tit)
Machlolophus nuchalis
Yellow-throated Sparrow (Chestnut-shouldered Petronia)
Gymnoris xanthocollis
Asian Fairy-bluebird
Irena puella
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
Pterocles exustus
Rock Bush-Quail
Perdicula argoondah
Lesser Whitethroat
Curruca curruca
Thick-billed Flowerpecker
Pachyglossa agilis
Baillon's Crake
Zapornia pusilla
Ruddy-breasted Crake
Zapornia fusca
Jungle Bush-Quail
Perdicula asiatica
White Wagtail
Motacilla alba
Indian Nuthatch
Sitta castanea
Forest Wagtail
Dendronanthus indicus
Plain Flowerpecker
Dicaeum minullum
Cinereous Tit
Parus cinereus
Common Hoopoe
Upupa epops
Eurasian Moorhen
Gallinula chloropus
Bronzed Drongo
Dicrurus aeneus
Indian Pitta
Pitta brachyura
White-breasted Waterhen
Amaurornis phoenicurus
White-bellied Treepie
Dendrocitta leucogastra
Malabar Trogon
Harpactes fasciatus
Common Rosefinch
Carpodacus erythrinus
Black-throated Munia
Lonchura kelaarti
Nilgiri Flowerpecker
Dicaeum concolor
Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
Sitta frontalis
Indian Yellow Tit
Machlolophus aplonotus
Rufous Treepie
Dendrocitta vagabunda
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus paradiseus
Malabar Grey Hornbill
Ocyceros griseus
Citrine Wagtail
Motacilla citreola
Grey Wagtail
Motacilla cinerea
Baya Weaver
Ploceus philippinus
Indian Grey Hornbill
Ocyceros birostris
White-browed Wagtail (Large Pied Wagtail)
Motacilla maderaspatensis
House Sparrow
Passer domesticus
Red Avadavat
Amandava amandava
White-rumped Munia
Lonchura striata
Scaly-breasted Munia (Spotted Munia)
Lonchura punctulata
Indian Silverbill (White-throated Munia)
Euodice malabarica
Pale-billed Flowerpecker
Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
Indian White-eye (Oriental White-eye)
Zosterops palpebrosus
Large-billed Crow
Corvus macrorhynchos
House Crow
Corvus splendens
Ashy Drongo
Dicrurus leucophaeus
Black Drongo
Dicrurus macrocercus
Indian Roller
Coracias benghalensis
Grey-headed Swamphen (Purple Swamphen)
Porphyrio poliocephalus
Eurasian Coot
Fulica atra
Grey Francolin
Ortygornis pondicerianus
No species found matching your search. Try a different name.