Birds of Nashik

The following list features birds of Nashik that have been spotted and identified by Nature’s Book in Nashik region of Maharashtra. It reflects our ongoing documentation based on field observations and is not a complete record of all bird species found in Nashik. Disclaimer: Species identifications are based on Nature’s Book’s current knowledge and may evolve. See full disclaimer. Listed: 114

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.

Darter, Cormorants, Grebes

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

Egrets, Herons, Bitterns

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

Storks, Spoonbills, Flamingos, Ibises

1. Painted Stork	2. Asian Openbill
3. Eurasian Spoonbill	4. Black-naped Ibis (Indian Black Ibis)

Geese, Swans, Ducks

1. Spot-billed Duck	2. Ruddy Shelduck
3. Gadwall	4. Northern Shoveler (NMBS 13-12-20)
5. Eurasian Wigeon	6. Common Pochard

Honey Buzzard, Bazas, Kites

1. Black Kite

2. Black-winged Kite

Accipiters

1. Shikra

Harriers

1. Eurasian (Western) Marsh Harrier

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. White-breasted Waterhen	2. Common Moorhen
3. Grey-headed Swamphen	4. Common Coot

Waders

1. Pheasant-tailed Jacana	2. Small Pratincole
3. Red-wattled Lapwing	4. Common Sandpiper
5. Wood Sandpiper

Terns and Skimmer

1. River Tern

2. Whiskered Tern

Sandgrouse, Pigeons

1. Laughing Dove	2. Eurasian Collared Dove
3. Rock Pigeon

Parakeets, Hanging Parots

1. Rose-ringed Parakeet

Koel, Coucals, Frogmouths, Nightjars

1. Asian Koel

2. Greater Coucal

Owls

1. Barn Owl

2. Spotted Owlet

Swifts, Swiftlets, Needletails, treeswift

1. House (Little) Swift

2. Alpine Swift

Rollers, Trogons, Kingfishers

1. Indian Roller – NT	2. White-throated Kingfisher
3. Common Kingfisher	4. Pied Kingfisher

Bee-eaters, Barbets, Hoopoe

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

Broadbills, Ioras, Leafbirds, Fairy Bluebird, Orioles, 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, Martins

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

Wood swallows, Drongos

1. Black Drongo

2. Ashy Drongo

Flycatcher-Shrike, Wood shrikes, Shrikes

1. Long-tailed Shrike

Starlings, Mynas

1. Brahminy Starling	2. Jungle Myna
3. Common Myna

Black Corvids

1. House Crow

2. Large-billed Crow

Cuckooshrikes, Triller, Minivets

1. Black-headed Cuckooshrike

Bulbuls

1. Red-vented Bulbul

Babblers

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

Flycatchers, Monarch Flycatchers, Fantails

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, Cisticolas

1. Plain Prinia

2. Ashy Prinia

Reed and ‘Tree’ Warblers

1. Clamorous Reed Warbler

2. Blyth’s Reed Warbler

Tailorbirds, Sylvia Warblers

1. Common Tailorbird

Leaf Warblers

1. Sulphur-bellied Warbler

2. Common Chiffchaff

Robins, Redstarts, Rock Chat, Shama

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

Wheatears, Stonechats, Bush Chat

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. Citrine Wagtail	4. Yellow Wagtail

White-eyes, Sunbirds

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

Flowerpeckers, Avadavats, Munias

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

Sparrows, Petronias, Weavers

1. House Sparrow

2. Baya Weaver

Rosefinches and allies

1. Common Rosefinch