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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