Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Common Birds of Kashmir

Birding is not main activity while traveling in Kashmir. Just a casual observation, and with only wide angle lenses . (17-40mm f4 and 24-70mm f4 Canon lenses).
Here are the common birds around Srinagar town and garden.

Gagak- Jungle Crow foraging in a flowering apple tree.
Tiung - Common Myna
My first lifers was found at Dal Lake in front if our houseboat - Hooded Crow


Second lifers in the Srinagar Botanical  Garden - Eurasian Jackdaw
Lifer No. 3:  Black Kite

Walk on Water
© Lukáš Pavlačík
Picture from --> https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22696545/111716447
Lifers No 4: Itik -  Little Grebe
 Lifers No 5: Common Moorhen
Lifer No.6 House Sparrow -male , compare to Tree Sparrow at my backyard below
House sparrow - are chunkier, fuller in the chest, with a larger, rounded head, shorter tail
gray heads, white cheeks. ("Dirty" white with black cheeks in tree sparrow)

Lifer No. 7: Tern

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