Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Going cuckoo for cuckoos


18th February

No time to write, alas. Today the birdy half of our group visited Burapahar in the west end of Kaziranga and saw a fine sprinkling of new birds, including no fewer than three new species of cuckoo for our list.


New today

Birds

298
wreathed hornbill
Rhyticeros undulatus
299
lesser racket-tailed drongo
Dicrurus remifer
300
large hawk-cuckoo
Hierococcyx sparverioides
301
Indian stone curlew
Burhinus (oedicnemus) indicus
302
green-billed malkoha
Rhopodytes tristis
303
banded bay cuckoo
Cacomantis sonneratii

2012 Totals
Mammals: 29
Birds: 303
Reptiles: 2
Amphibians: 0
Fish: 0

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