9:00 AM until about 12:00 Noon
Partly sunny after a cold, rainy night. About 10 degrees Centigrade.
We saw 40 species of birds:
Species: Number of birds counted
Gadwall: 7
Falcated Teal: 8
Eurasian Wigeon: 14
Mallard: 18
Spot-billed Duck: 19
Northern Shoveller: 10
Pintail: 14
Pochard: 21
Tufted Duck: 7
Little Grebe: 5
Turtle Dove: 3
Great Cormorant: 4
Black-crowned Night Heron: 3
Gray Heron: 3
Little Egret: 2
Common Gallinule (Moorhen): 4
European Coot: 25
Common Kingfisher: 5
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker: 2
Bull-headed Shrike: 1
Carrion Crow: 5
Jungle Crow: 25
Varied Tit: 2
Oriental Tit ( sometimes classified as separate species: Japanese Tit) : 6
Brown eared Bulbul: 30
Japanese Bush Warbler: 2
Long-tailed Tit: 20
Japanese White Eye: 6
Gray Starling: 5
Pale Thrush: 4
Dusky Thrush: 3
Daurian Redstart: 3
Tree Sparrow: 145
Gray Wagtail: 2
White Wagtail: 8
Brambling: 15
Oriental Greenfinch: 14
Japanese Grosbeak: 15
Black-faced Bunting: 2
Rock Dove (Common Pigeon): 168
My goodness--you are a birding expert! Henry has a bird app on his phone, and when we go on hikes, he is always trying to identify the ones we see. I've never heard of most of these!
ReplyDeleteGlad to read your comment!
ReplyDeleteIt's not surprising you haven't heard of most of these birds listed here because Old World ( Eurasian/ African) birds roughly form a group that is separate from the group of of New World birds.
I started watching birds during the spring migration of New World Warblers ( "the butterflies of the bird world" up along the Mississippi River in 1981. It was unforgettable, and life- transforming, for me....
I'm glad you have a friend who might share this hobby with you.