HSBC Mumbai Bird Race - Osprey team

Hello All,
The Osprey team, although not found a single osprey during the expedition, but had great chance to see many birds for the first time in life. And one among that as Pied Harrier, for which we won the "Bird of the day"category award.

Team OSPREY

Rajesh Sachdev

Rajendra Shelar

Prashant Bhagat

Dr. Sushama Ketkar

Sanjay Kulkarni

Prgyavant Mane

Shailesh Masulekar

The areas we covered were Dombivali-Baravi-Matheran-Uran-MNP

There were two beautiful  sightings of the day (a) The Indian Giant Squirrel -Matheran (b) and the Pied harrier -Uran

List of Birds  

1. Indian pea fowl - heared
   
2. Lesser whistling duck
3. Spot Billed Duck
4. Lesser Golden Backed woodpecker
5. Brown headed barbet
6. Coppersmith barbet
7. Indian roller
8. White breasted kingfisher
9. Small Blue kingfisher
10. Green bee eater
11. Chestnut headed bee eater
12. Blue tailed bee eater
13. Asian koel
14. Greater coucal
15. Rose ringed parakeet
16. Plum headed parakeet
17. Alexandrine parakeet
18. Asian palm swift
19. House swift
20. Bran owl
21. Rock pigeon
22. Laughing dove
23. Spotted dove
24. Yellow footed green pigeon
25. White breasted waterhen
26. Purple swamphen
27. Common coot
28. Common coot
29. Black shouldered kite
30. Black kite
31. Shikra
32. Changeable hawk eagle
33. Common kestrel
34. Little cormorant
35. Little egret
36. Cattle egret
37. Indian pond heron
38. Black ibis
39. Golden fronted leafbird
40. Bay backed shrike
41. Rufous backed shrike
42. Long tailed shrike
43. Southern grey shrike
44. Rufous treepie
45. House crow
46. Jungle crow
47. Eurasian golden oriole
48. Black hooded oriole
49. Black naped oriole
50. Large cuckooshrike
51. White throated fantail
52. White browed fantail
53. Black drongo
54. Greater racket tailed drongo
55. Ashy drongo
56. Asian paradise flycatcher
57. Asian brown flycatcher
58. Common iora
59. Oriental magpie robin
60. Indian robin
61. Pied bushchat
62. Brahminy starling
63. Common myna
64. Bank myna
65. Jungle Myna
66. Dusky crag martin
67. Red rumped swallow
68. Common swallow
69. Wood swallow
70. Bran swallow
71. Red whiskered bulbul
72. Red vented bulbul
73. Gray breasted prinia
74. Jungle prinia
75. Plain prinia
76. Ashy prinia
77. Jungle babbler
78. Greenish leaf warbler
79. Indian bush lark
80. Rufous tailed lark
81. sky lark
82. Thick billed flowerpecker
83. Purple rumped sunbird
84. Crimson backed sunbird
85. Purple sunbird
86. House sparrow
87. Paddyfield pipit
88. Scaly breasted munia
89. Intermmediate Egret
90. Black-headed Munia
91. Red Munia
92. Garganey
93. Black-tailed Godwit
94. Common Greenshank
95. Common Sandpiper
96. Marsh Sandpiper
97. Little Stint
98. Common Redshank
99. Black-winged Stilt
100. Whiskered Tern
101. Little Tern
102. Gull-billed Tern
103. Western Marsh Harrier
104. Pied Harrier Bird of the day
     
105. Brahminy Kite
106. Western Reef-Egret
107. Grey Heron
108. Common stonechat
109. Asian Pied Starling
110. Bronze winged Jacana
111. Pheasant tailed Jacana
112. Tailorbird
113. Crested Serpant Eagle
114. Pied Avocet
115. Whimbrel
116. Eurasian curlew
117. Terek sandpiper
118. Northern Shoveller
119. Cotton Teel
120. Common snipe
121. Spoonbill
122. Northern pintail
123. Black headed gull
124. Gadwall

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Regards
Rajesh Sachdev
Wildlife Activist & Photographer
Mumbai, India.
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