We caught the early morning National Park bus to Lake Periyar where we met a ranger and crossed an arm of the lake on a raft and walked a number of trails through good forest. Highlights included a male Malabar Trogon, several White-bellied Blue Flycatchers, a few Orange-headed Thrushes and a flock of White-bellied Treepies. We then walked part of the way back finding a nice mixed-species flock that included a few Western Crowned Warblers before we waved down a bus back to town. After lunch we returned to the same general area as yesterday afternoon although concentrated around the village fields seeing Malabar Grey Hornbill, another Orange-headed Thrush and an Indian Pitta in a small garden! At dusk we enjoyed the spectacle of a large number of Fruit Bats leaving the forest to feed.
Great Cormorant 8
Little Egret 1
Eastern Cattle Egret 6
Indian Pond Heron 2
Woolly-necked Stork 4
Red Spurfowl 1
Grey Junglefowl 1 male
Red-wattled Lapwing 1
Green Sandpiper 1
Common Sandpiper 1
Mountain (Nilgiri) Imperial Pigeon 1
Spotted Dove 2
Emerald Dove 1
Malabar Parakeet 15
Common Hawk-Cuckoo 1
Jungle Owlet 1
Indian Swiftlet 20
Brown-throated Needletail 1
MALABAR TROGON 1 male
White-throated Kingfisher 2
MALABAR GREY HORNBILL 4
Malabar Crimson-fronted Barbet 4
White-cheeked Barbet 6
Black-rumped Flameback 2
Indian Pitta 1
Grey Wagtail 2
White-browed Wagtail 2
Paddyfield Pipit 1
Orange Minivet 6
Small Minivet 4
Yellow-browed Bulbul 1
Common Iora 2
Gold-fronted Leafbird 2
Indian Paradise Flycatcher 4
Orange-headed Thrush 3
Oriental Magpie-Robin 1
Brown-breasted Flycatcher 1
Asian Brown Flycatcher 1
Rusty-tailed Flycatcher 1
Blue-throated Flycatcher 2
Verditer Flycatcher 1
WHITE-BELLIED BLUE FLYCATCHER 4
Blyth's Reed Warbler h
Greenish Warbler 2
Large-billed Leaf-Warbler 1
Western Crowned Warbler 3
Great Tit 4
Nilgiri Plain Flowerpecker 2
Oriental White-eye 8
Loten's Sunbird 1 male
Black-throated Munia 1
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo 2
Jungle Myna 10
Lesser Hill-Myna 2
White-bellied Treepie 8
the raft to ferry us across an arm of Periyar Lake
Periyar Lake
Orange-headed Ground-Thrush at Periyar
Male White-bellied Blue Flycatcher at Periyar
Male Blue-throated Flycatcher at Periyar
Male Malabar Trogon at Periyar
Male Grey Junglefowl at Periyar
Paddyfield Pipit at Periyar
Mountain Imperial Pigeon at Periyar
Split by some as Nilgiri Imperial Pigeon with Rasmussen (2005) noting that it requires further study as whilst it is fairly distinct morphologically, its vocalisations remain poorly understood.
Male Black-rumped Flameback at Periyar
Asian Brown Flycatcher at Periyar
Village fields near Periyar
Sambar at Periyar
Bluebottle butterfly at Periyar
Jungle Owlet at Periyar
Male Loten's Sunbird at Periyar
Nilgiri Plain Flowerpecker at Periyar
Female Malabar Grey Hornbill at Periyar
Orange-headed Ground-Thrush at Periyar
Indian Pitta at Periyar
