Birds of India

The following list features birds of India that have been spotted and identified by Nature’s Book across various regions of India. It reflects our ongoing documentation based on field observations and is not a complete record of all bird species found in India. Disclaimer: Species identifications are based on Nature’s Book’s current knowledge and may evolve. See full disclaimer. Listed: 140

Global IUCN 2025 Red List category

EX – Extinct, EW – Extinct in the Wild, CR – Critically Endangered, EN – Endangered, VU – Vulnerable, NT – Near Threatened, LC – Least Concerned (Not marked), DD – data Deficient.

Pelicans, Darter, Cormorants and Grebes

1. Darter	2. Little Cormorant
3. Indian Cormorant	4. Great Cormorant

Egrets, Herons and Bitterns

1. Little Egret	2. Intermediate Egret
3. Great Egret	4. Cattle Egret
5. Western Reef Egret	6. Indian Pond Heron
7. Purple Heron	8. Grey Heron
9. Black-crowned Night Heron

Storks, Spoonbills, Flamingos and Ibises

1. Painted Stork	2. Lesser Adjutant – NT
3. Eurasian Spoonbill	4. Asian Openbill
5. Black-naped Ibis (Indian Black Ibis)	6. Black-headed Ibis
7. Glossy Ibis

Geese, Swans and Ducks

1. Greylag Goose	2. Ruddy Shelduck
3. Common Teal (Green-winged Teal)	4. Spot-billed Duck
5. Gadwall	6. Northern Shoveler
7. Eurasian Wigeon	8. Common Pochard

Honey Buzzard, Bazas and Kites

1. Black Kite	2. Black-winged Kite
3. Brahminy Kite

Accipiters (Hawks)

1. Shikra

Osprey, Sea and Fish Eagles

1. Grey-headed Fish Eagle – NT

Harriers

1. Eurasian (Western) Marsh Harrier

Scrubfowl, Spurfowl, Partridges and Francolins

1. Grey Francolin

Peafowls, Junglefowls, Peacock Pheasants

1. Indian Peafowl

Cranes, Bustard, Floricans

1. Common Crane

Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Finfoot

1. Ruddy-breasted Crake	2. White-breasted Waterhen
3. Grey-headed Swamphen	4. Common Moorhen
5. Common Coot

Waders

1. Pheasant-tailed Jacana	2. Bronze-winged Jacana
3. Small Pratincole	4. Black-winged Stilt
5. River Lapwing	6. Red-wattled Lapwing
7. Common Sandpiper	8. Wood Sandpiper

Terns, Noddies and Skimmer

1. River Tern

2. Whiskered Tern

Sandgrouse and Pigeons

1. Laughing Dove	2. Spotted Dove
3. Eurasian Collared Dove	4. Rock Pigeon
5. Yellow-footed Green Pigeon

Parakeets and Hanging Parots

1. Rose-ringed Parakeet

Koel, Coucals, Frogmouths and Nightjars

1. Asian Koel

2. Greater Coucal

Owls

1. Barn Owl

2. Spotted Owlet

Swifts

1. House (Little) Swift

2. Alpine Swift

Rollers, Trogons and Kingfishers

1. Indian Roller – NT	2. White-throated Kingfisher
3. Common Kingfisher	4. Black-capped Kingfisher – VU
5. Pied Kingfisher

Bee-eaters, Barbets and Hoopoe

1. Green Bee-eater	2. Blue-throated Barbet
3. Coppersmith Barbet	4. Common Hoopoe

Hornbills

1. Indian Grey Hornbill

2. Great Hornbill – VU

Flamebacks, Woodpeckers, Honeyguide and Wryneck

1. Black-rumped Flameback

Broadbills, Ioras, Leafbirds, Fairy Bluebird, Orioles and Pittas

1. Eurasian Golden Oriole

2. Common Iora

Larks

1. Oriental Skylark	2. Ashy-crowned Sparrow Lark
3. Tawny Lark / Sykes’s (Crested) Lark

Swallows and Martins

1. Barn Swallow	2. Wire-tailed Swallow
3. Eastern Red-rumped Swallow	4. Dusky Crag Martin

Wood swallows and Drongos

1. Black Drongo

2. Ashy Drongo

Hypocolius, Flycatcher-Shrike, Wood shrikes and Shrikes

1. Long-tailed Shrike

Starlings and Mynas

1. Brahminy Starling	2. Indian Pied Myna
3. Common Myna	4. Jungle Myna

Corvids

1. Rufous Treepie

Black Corvids

1. House Crow

2. Large-billed Crow

Cuckooshrikes, Triller and Minivets

1. Large Cuckooshrike (Indian Cuckooshrike)

2. Black-headed Cuckooshrike

Bulbuls

1. Red-vented Bulbul

2. Red-whiskered Bulbul

Babblers

1. Tawny-bellied Babbler	2. Yellow-eyed Babbler
3. Jungle Babbler	4. Large Grey Babbler

Mangrove Whistler, Flycatchers, Monarch Flycatchers, Fantails, Flycatchers-warblers, Goldcrest, Tesias and Tit Warblers

1. Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher	2. Verditer Flycatcher
3. Red-breasted Flycatcher	4. Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher
5. Asian (Indian) Paradise-Flycatcher	6. Spot-breasted (White-spotted) Fantail

Prinias, Grassbirds and Cisticolas

1. Plain Prinia

2. Ashy Prinia

Reed and ‘Tree’ Warblers

1. Clamorous Reed Warbler

2. Blyth’s Reed Warbler

Tailorbirds and Sylvia Warblers

1. Common Tailorbird

Leaf Warblers

1. Sulphur-bellied Warbler

2. Common Chiffchaff

Robins and Redstarts, Rock Chat, Shama, Forktails and Dippers

1. Oriental Magpie-robin	2. Indian Robin
3. Black Redstart	4. Brown Rock Chat

Wheatears, Stonechats and Bush Chats

1. Siberian Stonechat

2. Pied Bushchat

Tits

1. Asian Tit (Cinerous Tit)

Pipits

1. Paddyfield Pipit

2. Tree Pipit

Wagtails

1. White-browed Wagtail	2. White Wagtail
3. Grey Wagtail	4. Yellow Wagtail
5. Citrine Wagtail

Spiderhunters, White-eyes and Sunbirds

1. Indian (Oriental) White-eye	2. Purple-rumped Sunbird
3. Purple Sunbird

Flowerpeckers, Avadavats and Munias

1. Red Avadavat	2. Indian Silverbill
3. Scaly-breasted Munia	4. Black-headed (/Chestnut) Munia

Sparrows, Petronias, and Weavers

1. House Sparrow

2. Baya Weaver

Rosefinches and allies

1. Common Rosefinch