Birding Paradise In Central India Bandhavgarh National Park
Bandhavgarh National Park and Tiger reserve is home to bewildering species of birds in Central India. The mixed forest zones, bamboo, and extensive grasslands are a habitat of more than 270 species of birds. The wide range of habitats invites many migrants to visit Bandhavgarh during the winter.
Bandhavgarh and other tiger reserves have been much underplayed as far as birding is concerned. This is due to the enigma of tigers and hence tiger safaris.
Bandhavgarh is heaven for tiger’s highest tiger density of tigers in the world, and a great opportunity for tiger photography in Bandhavgarh India, the best way to do photography is a full-day safari Bandhavgarh which specially designs by the forest department.
Resident Birds: The preserve offers excellent bird-watching opportunities in all seasons. But due to extreme heat birders prefer the cold season which times with the arrival of migrants. But the resident species offer wonderful experiences as well.
Find below the checklist of birds of Bandhavgarh:
Blyth's Reed Warbler
White Rumped Shama
Yellow Fronted Woodpecker
White Naped Woodpecker
Barred Button Quail
Jungle Bush Quail
Rock Bush Quail
Brown Capped Pigmy Woodpecker
Black Rumped Flameback
White Browed Flycatcher
Grey-Headed Canary Flycatcher
Verditor Flycatcher
Black Naped Monarch
Black Hooded Oriole
Golden Oriole
Common Iora
Lesser Adjutant Stork
Pied Kingfisher
White Throated Kingfisher
Common Kingfisher
Stork Billed Kingfisher
Pond Heron
Striated Heron
Grey Heron
Purple Heron
Common Stonechat
Blue-Capped Rock Thrush
Wood Sand Piper
Common Kingfisher
Great Cormorant
Common Red Shank
Median Cormorant
Black Winged Stilt
Temminck Stint
Streak Throated Swallow
Green Sand Piper
Egrets
Black Ibis
Ultramarine Flycatcher
White Eye
Brown Headed Barbet
Crimson Breasted Barbet
Painted Snipe
Common Snipe
Red Avadavat
Brown Fish Owl
Puff Throated Babblar
Spotted Owlet
Barn Owl
Indian Scops Owl
Yellow Fronted Green Pigeon
Thick-billed Flowerpecker
Pale-billed Flowerpecker
Indian Scimitar Babbler
Tawny Babbler
Malabar Pied Horn Bill
Common Myna
Grey Bushchat
Gold mantled chlorosis
Blue Winged Leaf Bird
Spangled Drongo
White Bellied Drongo
Black Drongo
Ashy Drongo
Racket Tailed Drongo
Pied Starling
Jungle Myna
Chestnut Tailed Starling
Blyth's Pipit
Paddy Field Pipit
Rosy Starling
Asian Paradise Flycatcher
Hume's Warbler
Greenish Warbler
Common Chiff Chaff
Velvet Fronted Nuthatch
Common Grey Hornbill
Barn Swallow
Wire Tailed Swallow
Brown Shrike
Bay Backed Shrike
Long Tailed Shrike
Indian Robin
Asian Koel
River Lapwing
Large Egret
Intermediate Egret
Little Egret
Great Bittern
Black bittern
Open bill stork
Bronze Winged Jacana
Pheasant Tailed Jacana
Black stork
Lesser Adjutant Stork
Pied Kingfisher
White Throated Kingfisher
Common Kingfisher
Stork Billed Kingfisher
Pond Heron
Striated Heron
Grey Heron
Purple Heron
Common Stonechat
Blue-Capped Rock Thrush
Wood Sand Piper
Common Kingfisher
Great Cormorant
Common Red Shank
Median Cormorant
Black Winged Stilt
Temminck Stint
Streak Throated Swallow
Green Sand Piper
Egrets
Black Ibis
Ultramarine Flycatcher
White Eye
Brown Headed Barbet
Crimson Breasted Barbet
Painted Snipe
Common Snipe
Red Avadavat
Brown Fish Owl
Puff Throated Babblar
Spotted Owlet
Barn Owl
Indian Scops Owl
Yellow Fronted Green Pigeon
Thick-billed Flowerpecker
Pale-billed Flowerpecker
Indian Scimitar Babbler
Tawny Babbler
Jungle Babbler
Large Grey Babbler
Common Babbler
Sulphur Bellied Warbler
Tickell's Warbler
Western Crowned Warbler
White Browed Bulbul
Purple Sunbird
Long Tailed Minivet
Scarlet Minivet
Small Minivet
White Bellied Minivet
Scaly Bellied Minivet
Black Headed Minivet
Eurasian Thickness
Rufous Treepie
Large Cuckoo Shrike
Black-Headed Cuckoo Shrike
Common Hawk Cuckoo
Grey Bellied Cuckoo
Indian Cuckoo
Shirker Malkoha
Lesser Whistling Teal
Brahminy Duck
Comb Duck
Common Teal
Siberian Ruby Throat
Fire Capped Tit
Northern Pintail
Wooly Necked Stork
Chestnut Shouldered Petronia
Rose Ringed Parakeet
Alexandrine Parakeet
Plum Headed Parakeet
Tickell's Thrush
Blue Rock Thrush
Scaly Thrush
Plain-backed Thrush
Black Headed Bunting
Red Needed Bunting
Red Spurfowl
Painted Spurfowl
Red Jungle Fowl
Oriental Honey Buzzard
Peregrine Falcon
Eurasian Hobby
White Eyed Buzzard
Crested Serpent Eagle
Grey-Headed Fish Eagle
Crested Hawk Eagle
Pallas's Fish Eagle
The Tiger Reserve is an excellent birding destination, thanks to rich floral diversity and excellent habitats:
Find below the checklist of birds of Bandhavgarh:
Malabar Pied Horn Bill
Common Myna
Grey Bushchat
Gold mantled chlorosis
Blue Winged Leaf Bird
Spangled Drongo
White Bellied Drongo
Black Drongo
Ashy Drongo
Racket Tailed Drongo
Pied Starling
Jungle Myna
Chestnut Tailed Starling
Blyth's Pipit
Paddy Field Pipit
Rosy Starling
Blyth's Reed Warbler
White Rumped Shama
Yellow Fronted Woodpecker
White Naped Woodpecker
Barred Button Quail
Jungle Bush Quail
Rock Bush Quail
Brown Capped Pigmy Woodpecker
Black Rumped Flameback
White Browed Flycatcher
Grey-Headed Canary Flycatcher
Verditor Flycatcher
Black Naped Monarch
Black Hooded Oriole
Golden Oriole
Common Iora
Asian Paradise Flycatcher
Hume's Warbler
Greenish Warbler
Common Chiff Chaff
Velvet Fronted Nuthatch
Common Grey Hornbill
Barn Swallow
Wire Tailed Swallow
Brown Shrike
Bay Backed Shrike
Long Tailed Shrike
Indian Robin
Asian Koel
River Lapwing
Large Egret
Intermediate Egret
Little Egret
Great Bittern
Black bittern
Open bill stork
Bronze Winged Jacana
Pheasant Tailed Jacana
Black stork
Lesser Adjutant Stork
Pied Kingfisher
White Throated Kingfisher
Common Kingfisher
Stork Billed Kingfisher
Pond Heron
Striated Heron
Grey Heron
Purple Heron
Common Stonechat
Blue-Capped Rock Thrush
Wood Sand Piper
Common Kingfisher
Great Cormorant
Common Red Shank
Median Cormorant
Black Winged Stilt
Temminck Stint
Streak Throated Swallow
Green Sand Piper
Egrets
Black Ibis
Ultramarine Flycatcher
White Eye
Brown Headed Barbet
Crimson Breasted Barbet
Painted Snipe
Common Snipe
Red Avadavat
Brown Fish Owl
Puff Throated Babblar
Spotted Owlet
Barn Owl
Indian Scops Owl
Yellow Fronted Green Pigeon
Thick-billed Flowerpecker
Pale-billed Flowerpecker
Indian Scimitar Babbler
Tawny Babbler
Jungle Babbler
Large Grey Babbler
Common Babbler
Sulphur Bellied Warbler
Tickell's Warbler
Western Crowned Warbler
White Browed Bulbul
Purple Sunbird
Long Tailed Minivet
Scarlet Minivet
Small Minivet
White Bellied Minivet
Scaly Bellied Minivet
Black Headed Minivet
Eurasian Thickness
Rufous Treepie
Large Cuckoo Shrike
Black-Headed Cuckoo Shrike
Common Hawk Cuckoo
Grey Bellied Cuckoo
Indian Cuckoo
Shirker Malkoha
Lesser Whistling Teal
Brahminy Duck
Comb Duck
Common Teal
Siberian Ruby Throat
Fire Capped Tit
Northern Pintail
Wooly Necked Stork
Chestnut Shouldered Petronia
Rose Ringed Parakeet
Alexandrine Parakeet
Plum Headed Parakeet
Tickell's Thrush
Blue Rock Thrush
Scaly Thrush
Plain-backed Thrush
Black Headed Bunting
Red Needed Bunting
Red Spurfowl
Painted Spurfowl
Red Jungle Fowl
Oriental Honey Buzzard
Peregrine Falcon
Eurasian Hobby
White Eyed Buzzard
Crested Serpent Eagle
Grey-Headed Fish Eagle
Crested Hawk Eagle
Pallas's Fish Eagle
White Rumped Vulture
Long Billed Vulture
King Vulture
Egyptian Vulture
Eurasian Sparrow Hawk
Common Wood shrike
Osprey
Shikra
Common Kestrel
Spotted Dove
Oriental Turtle Dove
Laughing Dove
Eurasian Ring Dove
Red Turtle Dove
Barred Jungle Owlet
Mottled Wood Owl
Zitting Cisticola
Red Rumped Swallow
Crested Tree Swift
House Martin
Plain Martin
Grey Francolin
Painted Francolin
White Browed Fantail Flycatcher
White Throated Fantail Flycatcher
Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
Blue Bearded Bee Eater
Red Breasted Flycatcher
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Bluethroat
Magpie Robin
Brown Cheeked Fulvetta
Common Rose finch
White-capped Bunting
Yellow Eyed Babbler
Little Cormorant
Brahminy Starling
Yellow Wattled Lapwing
Red Wattled Lapwing
Eurasian Thickness
Rufous Tailed Lark
Tree Pipit
Olive Backed Pipit
Chestnut Bellied Nuthatch
Pied Stonechat
Brown Rock Chat
