Birds of Hailakandi: a Pictorial note


Hailakandi district lies at the extreme southern bank of Barak River with a total area of 1327 km2. Of the total area, 741.15 km2 (55.8%) is under forest cover including Innerline and Katathal Reserve forest.  Tropical wet evergreen forest and semi evergreen forests, tropical deciduous forest are the composition of these reserve forests: natural habitat (Champion and Seth, 1968; Choudhury 2013) while secondary forest, tea planted area, monoculture orchards and crop fields are some of the disturbed habitat type (Mazumder, 2014).
   Some Pictures: 
Spotted Munia
Black Baza


Cotton Pigmy goose

Greater Coucal

Crested Serpent Egale

Indian Plaintive cuckoo

Great tit

Common hoopoe

Jerdon's Baza

Purple rumped sunbird

Stock billed kingfisher

Indian Pond heron

Common Krestle

Pied Starling

Open billed stork

Black kite
Common Tailorbird
Blue tailed beeeater
Common kingfisher
Spotted dove
Red jungle fowl
Painted snipe
Lesser Adjutant Stork
Spotted Dove

Brown cheeked rail