Birds of Chennai
Thirumalai, G. and Krishnan, S.
pp 1 - 196 | July 2005
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Introduction- Map
- Habitats
- Systematic List
- Discriptive Parts of Birds
- Little Grebe
- Little Cormorant
- Darter
- Grey Heron
- Purple Heron
- Indian Pond Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Little Green Heron
- Large Egret
- Black Bittern
- Little Egret
- Chestnut Bittern
- Yellow Bittern
- Median Egret
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Asian Openbill
- Painted Stork
- Oriental White Ibis
- Glossy Ibis
- Greater Flamingo
- Northern Pintail
- Spit-Billed Duck
- Lesser Whistling Duck
- Shikra
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Besra Sparrowhawk
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Brahminy Kite
- Black Kite
- Egyptian Vulture
- Oriental Honey Buzzard
- Crested Serpent Eagle
- Common Kestrel
- Grey Francolin
- Indian Peafowl
- White - breasted Waterhen
- Common Coot
- Common Moorhen
- Purple Moorhen
- Pheasant - tailed Jacana
- Kentish Plover
- Little Ringed Plover
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Red-wattled Lapwing
- Yellow-wattled Lapwing
- Common Sandpiper
- Little Stint
- Common Snipe
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Eastern Curlew
- Ruff
- Wood Sandpiper
- Common Greenshank
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Common Redshank
- Black-winged Stilt
- Stone-Curlew
- Gull-billed Tern
- Black-headed Gull
- River Tern
- Blue Rock Pigeon
- Spotted Dove
- Little Brown Dove
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Greater Coucal
- Red-winged Crested Cuckoo
- Pied Crested Cuckoo
- Asian Koel
- Brainfever Bird
- Green-billed Malkoha
- Short-eared Owl
- Spotted Owlet
- Eurasian Eagle-Owl
- Barn Owl
- Common Indian Nightjar
- House Swift
- Asian Palm-Swift
- Small Blue Kingfisher
- Lesser Pied Kingfisher
- Stork-billed Kingfisher
- Black-capped Kingfisher
- White-breasted Kingfisher
- Small Bee-eater
- Blue-tailed Bee-eater
- Indian Roller
- Common Hoopoe
- Coppersmith Barbet
- Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker
- Indian Pitta
- Eastern Skylark
- Ashy-crowned Sparrow-lark
- Jerdon's Bush-lark
- Common Swallow
- Brown Shrike
- Rufous-backed Shrike
- Eurasian Golden Oriole
- Black Drongo
- Ashy Woodswallow
- Common Myna
- Brahminy Starling
- Rosy Starling
- Jungle Crow
- House Crow
- Indian Treepie
- Red-vented Bulbul
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- White-browed Bulbul
- Blyth's Reed Warbler
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- Common Tailorbird
- Plain Prinia
- Ashy Prinia
- Pied Bushchat
- Indian Robin
- Asian Paradise Flycatcher
- White-headed Babbler
- Common Babbler
- Large Grey Babbler
- Jungle Babbler
- Orange-headed Thrush
- Black-headed Cuckoo Shrike
- Small Minivet
- Common Woodshrike
- Common Iora
- Paddyfield Pipit
- Grey Wagtail
- Yellow Wagtail
- Large Pied Wagtail
- Purple Sunbird
- Loten's Sunbird
- Purple-rumped Sunbird
- House Sparrow
- Streaked Weaver
- Baya Weaver
- White-throated Munia
- Black-headed Munia
- Spotted Munia
- White-rumped Munia
- Species FactSheets (As Per Birds International)
- Selected Bibliography
- Index to Scientific Names
- Index to Common Names
- Index to Vernacular Names