A Birder's Eye View: Krishna & Kolleru Sanctuaries, 9.11.2012 to 11.11.2012

And the bird-watching season is back!!!

This time I headed for AP with my friend Manoj from Guntur. It was time for the very little known Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary and the Kolleru Lake Sanctuary among other birding sites near Guntur.

Access: Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary via boat from Nagayalanka. Mind you - the boat ride is 2hrs before you even enter the sanctuary!!!
Kolleru Lake Sanctuary via road from Vijayawada through Atapaka

A list of the birds spotted:

1) Red Junglefow - 1 (Perecherla)

Asian Pied Starling

2) Ruddy Shelduck - 2 (Krishna River)
3) Spot-Billed Duck - 3 (Uppalapadu)
4) Black-Rumped Flameback - 3 (Repalle)
5) Coppersmith Barbet - 2 (Perecherla)
6) Indian Roller - Very common all over AP
7) Common Kingfisher - 2 (Repalle)
8) White-Throated Kingfisher - 4 (Kolleru)
9) Pied Kingfisher - 8 (Kolleru)
10) Green Bee-Eater - 4 (Perecherla)
11) Pied Cuckoo - 1 (Perecherla)
12) Asian Koel - many in Guntur
13) Greater Coucal - 5 (Krishna)
14) Alexandrine Parakeet - 1 (Perecherla)
15) Rose-Ringed Parakeet - many
16) House Swift - 10 (Kolleru)
17) Rock Pigeon - many
18) Laughing Dove - 20 (Perecherla)
19) Spotted Dove - 2 (Repalle)
20) Eurasian Collared Dove - 2 (Kolleru)

Pheasant-Tailed Jacana

21) White-Breasted Waterhen - 7 (Uppalapadu)
22) Purple Swamphen - 3 (Uppalapadu)
23) Common Moorhen - 2 (Uppalapadu)
24) Common Coot - 8 (Kolleru)
25) Common Snipe - 4 (Krishna)
26) Black-Tailed Godwit - 1 (Krishna)
27) Eurasian Curlew - 3 (Krishna)
28) Common Redshank - 1 (Krishna)
29) Common Sandpiper - 12 (Krishna)
30) Marsh Sandpiper - 5 (Krishna)
31) Wood Sandpiper - 4 (Krishna)
32) Little Stint - many (Krishna)
33) Ruff - many (Krishna)
34) Pheasant-Tailed Jacana - 4 (Uppalapadu)
35) Bronze-Winged Jacana - 3 (Kolleru)
36) Black-Winged Stilt - 6 (Uppalapadu)
37) Little Ringed Plover - 2 (Kolleru)
38) Kentish Plover - 2 (Kolleru)
39) Red-Wattled Lapwing - 7 (Kolleru)


Common Coot

40) Brown-Headed Gull - 2 (Krishna)
41) Black-Headed Gull - 7 (Krishna)
42) Whiskered Tern - 5 (Kolleru)
43) Black-Shouldered Kite - 1 (Repalle)
44) Black Kite - many in Guntur
45) Brahminy Kite - 2 (Perecherla)
46) Shikra - 1 (Undavalli)
47) Common Kestrel - 1 (Palakaluru)
48) Peregrine Falcon - 1 (Undavalli)
49) Little Grebe - 4 (Kolleru)
50) Little Cormorant - 5 (Kolleru)
51) Indian Cormorant - 4 (Krishna)
52) Little Egret - many in Krishna river
53) Intermediate Egret - many in Krishna river
54) Western Reef Egret - 4 (Krishna)
55) Great Egret - 5 (Krishna)
56) Indian Pond Heron - many in Krishna river
57) Cattle Egret - 6 (Perecherla)
58) Grey Heron - 2 (Krishna)
59) Purple Heron - 6 (Kolleru)
60) Glossy Ibis - 6 (Kolleru)

Little Egret

61) Black-Headed Ibis - 4 (Uppalapadu)
62) Rosy Pelican - 2 (Uppalapadu)
63) Spot-Billed Pelican - many in Uppalapadu
64) Painted Stork - many in Kolleru
65) Asian Openbill Stork - many in Uppalapadu
66) Woolly-Necked Stork - 2 (Repalle)
67) Bay-Backed Shrike - 2 (Perecherla)
68) Long-Tailed Shrike - 1 (Repalle)
69) Rufous Treepie - 2 (Perecherla)
70) House Crow - many
71) Large-Billed Crow - many in Kolleru
72) Eurasian Golden Oriole - 2 (Undavalli)
73) Black Drongo - many in Repalle
74) Common Iora - 5 (Perecherla)
75) Oriental Magpie Robin - 4 (Repalle)
76) Indian Robin - 1 (Palakaluru)
77) Brahminy Starling - 3 (Kolleru)
78) Asian Pied Starling - 15 (Kolleru)
79) Common Myna - very common
80) Barn Swallow - 20 (Kolleru)

Purple Heron

81) Wire-Tailed Swallow - 2 (Repalle)
82) Red-Vented Bulbul - 4 (Perecherla)
83) Grey-Breasted Prinia - 1 (Palakaluru)
84) Plain Prinia - 5 (Kolleru)
85) Oriental White-Eye - 4 (Undavalli)
86) Chestnut-Shouldered Petronia - 1 (Undavalli)
87) Sykes's Warbler - 2 (Krishna)
88) Common Tailorbird - 7 (Perecherla)
89) Jungle Babbler - 4 (Undavalli)
90) Purple Sunbird - 7 (Undavalli)
91) Purple-Rumped Sunbird - 3 (Undavalli)
92) House Sparrow - 2 (Gowada)
93) White-Browed Wagtail - 2 (Nagayalanka)
94) Paddyfield Pipit - 1 (Repalle)
95) Scaly-Breasted Munia - 1 (Repalle)