A Checklist of the Birds of
THAILAND
Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
x = observed
h = heard only
Asterisk (*) denotes bird species new to Thai list between 1991 and 2000.
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2006 |
2007 |
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Chinese Francolin |
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Long-billed Partridge |
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Rain Quail |
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Blue-breasted Quail |
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Rufous-throated Partridge |
x |
x |
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Bar-backed Partridge |
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x |
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Scaly-breasted Partridge |
x |
x |
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Ferruginous (Wood-) Partridge |
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Mountain Bamboo-Partridge |
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x |
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Red Junglefowl |
x |
x |
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Kalij Pheasant |
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x |
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Silver Pheasant |
x |
x |
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Siamese Fireback |
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Hume's Pheasant |
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Grey Peacock-Pheasant |
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Green Peafowl |
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Lesser Whistling-Duck |
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*Swan Goose |
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*Greylag Goose |
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Bar-headed Goose |
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Ruddy Shelduck |
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Cotton Pygmy-Goose |
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Mandarin Duck |
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Gadwall |
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Eurasian Wigeon |
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*Mallard |
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Spot-billed Duck |
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Northern Shoveler |
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Northern Pintail |
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Garganey |
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*Baikal Teal |
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Common Teal |
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Yellow-legged Buttonquail |
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Barred Buttonquail |
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Eurasian Wryneck |
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x |
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Speckled Piculet |
x |
x |
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White-browed Piculet |
x |
x |
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Grey-capped Woodpecker |
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Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker |
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x |
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Stripe-breasted Woodpecker |
x |
x |
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Rufous Woodpecker |
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White-bellied Woodpecker |
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Banded Woodpecker |
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Lesser Yellownape |
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Crimson-winged Woodpecker |
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x |
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Greater Yellownape |
x |
x |
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Streak-breasted Woodpecker |
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Laced Woodpecker |
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x |
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Black-headed Woodpecker |
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Grey-headed Woodpecker |
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Olive-backed Woodpecker |
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Common Flameback |
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Great Flameback |
x |
x |
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Bamboo Woodpecker |
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Maroon Woodpecker |
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Bay Woodpecker |
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x |
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Buff-rumped Woodpecker |
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Black-and-Buff Woodpecker |
x |
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Grey-and-Buff Woodpecker |
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Heart-spotted Woodpecker |
x |
x |
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Great Slaty Woodpecker |
x |
x |
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Great Barbet |
x |
x |
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Lineated Barbet |
x |
x |
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Green-eared Barbet |
x |
x |
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Gold-whiskered Barbet |
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Red-throated Barbet |
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x |
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Golden-throated Barbet |
x |
x |
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Blue-throated Barbet |
x |
x |
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Moustached Barbet |
x |
x |
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Blue-eared Barbet |
x |
x |
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Coppersmith Barbet |
x |
x |
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Oriental Pied Hornbill |
x |
x |
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Great Hornbill |
x |
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Tickell's Brown Hornbill |
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x |
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Austen's Brown Hornbill |
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White-crowned Hornbill |
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x |
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Wreathed Hornbill |
x |
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Plain-pouched Hornbill |
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x |
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(Eurasian) Hoopoe |
x |
x |
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Orange-breasted Trogon
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x |
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Red-headed Trogon |
x |
x |
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Indian Roller |
x |
x |
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Dollarbird |
x |
x |
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Common Kingfisher |
x |
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Blue-eared Kingfisher |
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Blue-banded Kingfisher |
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Black-backed Kingfisher |
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x |
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Banded Kingfisher |
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Stork-billed Kingfisher |
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x |
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Ruddy Kingfisher |
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x |
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White-throated Kingfisher |
x |
x |
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Black-capped Kingfisher |
x |
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Collared Kingfisher |
x |
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Rufous-collared Kingfisher |
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x |
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Pied Kingfisher |
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x |
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Red-bearded Bee-eater |
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x |
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Blue-bearded Bee-eater |
x |
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Green Bee-eater |
x |
x |
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Blue-throated Bee-eater |
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x |
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Blue-tailed Bee-eater |
x |
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Chestnut-headed Bee-eater |
x |
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Chestnut-winged Cuckoo |
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Large Hawk-Cuckoo |
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x |
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Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo |
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Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo |
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Indian Cuckoo |
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Eurasian (Common) Cuckoo |
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Oriential Cuckoo |
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Banded Bay Cuckoo |
x |
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Plaintive Cuckoo |
x |
x |
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Little (Malayan) Bronze Cuckoo |
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Asian Emerald Cuckoo |
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x |
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Violet Cuckoo |
x |
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Drongo Cuckoo |
x |
x |
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Asian (Common) Koel |
x |
x |
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Black-bellied Malkoha |
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Chestnut-bellied Malkoha |
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Green-billed Malkoha |
x |
x |
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Raffles' Malkoha |
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Red-billed Malkoha |
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Chestnut-breasted Malkoha |
x |
x |
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Coral-billed Ground-Cuckoo |
x |
x |
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Greater Coucal |
x |
x |
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Lesser Coucal |
x |
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Vernal Hanging Parrot |
x |
x |
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Alexandrine Parakeet |
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Grey-headed Parakeet |
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Blossom-headed Parakeet |
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x |
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Red-breasted Parakeet |
x |
x |
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Himalayan Swiftlet |
x |
x |
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Edible-nest Swiftlet |
x |
x |
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White-throated Needletail |
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Silver-backed (Wh-vent) Needletail
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Brown-backed (Brown) Needletail
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x |
x |
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Asian Palm-Swift |
x |
x |
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Pacific Swift |
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x |
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House Swift |
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Crested Treeswift |
x |
x |
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Grey-rumped Treeswift |
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x |
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Whiskered Treeswift |
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Barn Owl |
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(Oriental) Bay Owl |
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White-fronted Scops-Owl |
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Mountain Scops-Owl |
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Oriental Scops-Owl |
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Collared Scops-Owl |
d |
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Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl |
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Barred Eagle-Owl |
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Brown Fish-Owl |
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Buffy Fish-Owl |
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Brown Wood-Owl |
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Collared Owlet |
x |
x |
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Asian Barred Owlet |
x |
x |
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Spotted Owlet |
x |
x |
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Brown (Hawk-Owl) Boobook |
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x |
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Hodgson's Frogmouth |
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Javan Frogmouth |
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Great-eared Nightjar |
x |
x |
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Grey Nightjar |
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Large-tailed Nightjar |
x |
x |
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Savanna Nightjar |
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Rock Pigeon |
x |
x |
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Speckled Wood-Pigeon |
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x |
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Ashy Wood-Pigeon |
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x |
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Oriental Turtle-Dove |
x |
x |
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Spotted Dove |
x |
x |
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Red Collared (Turtle)-Dove |
x |
x |
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Barred Cuckoo-Dove |
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x |
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Little Cuckoo-Dove |
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x |
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Emerald Dove |
x |
x |
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Zebra Dove |
x |
x |
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Pink-necked Pigeon |
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Orange-breasted Pigeon |
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Pompadour Pigeon |
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Thick-billed Pigeon |
x |
x |
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Yellow-footed Pigeon |
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Pin-tailed Pigeon |
x |
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Yellow-vented Pigeon |
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Wedge-tailed Pigeon |
x |
x |
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White-bellied Pigeon |
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Green Imperial Pigeon |
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Mountain Imperial Pigeon |
x |
x |
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Red-legged Crake |
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Slaty-legged Crake |
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Slaty-breasted Rail |
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Water Rail |
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White-breasted Waterhen |
x |
x |
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Black-tailed Crake |
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Baillon's Crake |
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Ruddy-breasted Crake |
x |
x |
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Band-bellied Crake |
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White-browed Crake |
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Watercock |
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Purple Swamphen |
x |
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Common Moorhen |
x |
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Eurasian Woodcock |
x |
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Wood Snipe |
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Pintail Snipe |
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Common Snipe |
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x |
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Jack Snipe |
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Black-tailed Godwit |
x |
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Bar-tailed Godwit |
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x |
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Little Curlew |
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Whimbrel |
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Eurasian Curlew |
x |
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Eastern Curlew |
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Spotted Redshank |
x |
x |
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Common Redshank |
x |
x |
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Marsh Sandpiper |
x |
x |
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Common Greenshank |
x |
x |
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Nordmann's Greenshank |
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Green Sandpiper |
x |
x |
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Wood Sandpiper |
x |
x |
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Terek Sandpiper |
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Common Sandpiper |
x |
x |
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Grey-tailed Tattler |
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Ruddy Turnstone |
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Long-billed Dowitcher |
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Asian Dowitcher |
x |
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Great Knot |
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Red Knot |
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Sanderling |
x |
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Little Stint |
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Red-necked Stint |
x |
x |
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Long-toed Stint |
x |
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Temminck's Stint |
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x |
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Sharp-tailed Sandpiper |
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Dunlin |
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Curlew Sandpiper |
x |
x |
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper |
x |
x |
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Broad-billed Sandpiper |
x |
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Ruff |
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x |
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Red-necked Phalarope |
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Greater Painted-snipe |
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Pheasant-tailed Jacana |
x |
x |
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Bronze-winged Jacana |
x |
x |
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Eurasian Thick-knee (Stone Curlew)
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Great Thick-knee |
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Black-winged Stilt |
x |
x |
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*Pied Avocet |
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Pacific Golden-Plover |
x |
x |
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Grey (Black-bellied) Plover |
x |
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*Common Ringed Plover |
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Long-billed Plover |
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Little Ringed Plover |
x |
x |
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Kentish (Snowy) Plover |
x |
x |
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Malaysian Plover |
x |
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Lesser Sand- (Mongolian) Plover |
x |
x |
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Greater Sand-Plover |
x |
x |
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Grey-headed Lapwing |
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x |
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Red-wattled Lapwing |
x |
x |
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Oriental Pratincole |
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Pomarine Jaeger |
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Arctic Skua |
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Indian Skimmer |
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Black-tailed Gull |
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Heuglin's (Herring) Gull |
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Pallas's (Great Black-headed) Gull |
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Brown-headed Gull |
x |
x |
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Black-headed Gull |
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Slender-billed Gull |
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Gull-billed Tern |
x |
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Caspian Tern |
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Lesser Crested Tern |
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Great Cested Tern |
x |
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Common Tern |
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Little Tern |
x |
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Whiskered Tern |
x |
x |
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White-winged Tern |
x |
x |
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Osprey |
x |
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Jerdon's Baza |
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Black Baza |
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x |
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Oriental (Crested) Honey-Buzzard |
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x |
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Black-shoulderd Kite |
x |
x |
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Black Kite |
x |
x |
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Brahminy Kite |
x |
x |
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White-bellied Sea-Eagle |
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Grey-headed Fish-Eagle |
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Crested Serpent-Eagle |
x |
x |
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Western Marsh-Harrier |
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Eastern Marsh-Harrier |
x |
x |
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Pied Harrier |
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Crested Goshawk |
x |
x |
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Shikra |
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x |
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Chinese (Goshawk) Sparrowhawk |
x |
x |
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Japanese Sparrowhawk |
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Besra |
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Eurasian Sparrowhawk |
x |
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Northern Goshawk |
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Rufous-winged Buzzard |
x |
x |
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Grey-faced Buzzard |
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x |
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Common (Eurasian) Buzzard |
x |
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Black Eagle |
x |
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Greater Spotted Eagle |
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x |
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Tawny Eagle |
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Imperial Eagle |
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Booted Eagle |
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Rufous-bellied Eagle |
x |
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Changeable Hawk-Eagle |
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x |
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Mountain Hawk-Eagle |
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x |
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White-rumped Falcon |
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Collared Falconet |
x |
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Black-thighed Falconet |
x |
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Common (Eurasian) Kestrel |
x |
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Amur Falcon |
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*Merlin |
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Eurasian (Northern) Hobby |
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Oriental Hobby |
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Peregrine Falcon |
x |
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Little Grebe |
x |
x |
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Oriental Darter |
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Little Cormorant |
x |
x |
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Indian (Shag) Cormorant |
x |
x |
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Great Cormorant |
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Little Egret |
x |
x |
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Chinese Egret |
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Pacific Reef-Egret |
x |
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Grey Heron |
x |
x |
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Purple Heron |
x |
x |
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Great Egret |
x |
x |
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Intermediate Egret |
x |
x |
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Cattle Egret |
x |
x |
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*Indian Pond-Heron |
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Chinese Pond-Heron |
x |
x |
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Javan Pond-Heron |
x |
x |
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Little Heron |
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Black-crowned Night-Heron |
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Malayan Night-Heron |
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Yellow Bittern |
x |
x |
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Schrenck's Bittern |
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Black Bittern |
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x |
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Great Bittern |
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Glossy Ibis |
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Black-headed Ibis |
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Black-faced Spoonbill |
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Spot-billed Pelican |
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Milky Stork |
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Painted Stork |
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Asian Openbill |
x |
x |
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Lesser Adjutant |
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Greater Adjutant |
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Eared Pitta |
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Rusty-naped Pitta |
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Blue Pitta |
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x |
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Hooded Pitta |
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Blue-winged Pitta |
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Dusky Broadbill |
x |
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Black-and-Red Broadbill |
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Banded Broadbill |
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x |
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Black-and-Yellow Broadbill |
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Silver-breasted Broadbill |
x |
x |
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Long-tailed Broadbill |
x |
x |
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Green Broadbill |
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x |
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Golden-bellied (Flyeater) Gerygone
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x |
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Asian Fairy-bluebird |
x |
x |
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Greater Green Leafbird |
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Lesser Green Leafbird |
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Blue-winged Leafbird |
x |
x |
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Golden-fronted Leafbird |
x |
x |
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Orange-bellied Leafbird |
x |
x |
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Tiger Shrike |
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x |
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Brown Shrike |
x |
x |
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Burmese Shrike |
x |
x |
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Long-tailed Shrike |
x |
x |
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Grey-backed Shrike |
x |
x |
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Mangrove Whistler |
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Crested Jay |
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Eurasian Jay |
x |
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Blue Magpie |
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Green Magpie |
x |
x |
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Rufous Treepie |
x |
x |
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Grey Treepie |
x |
x |
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Racket-tailed Treepie |
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x |
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*Ratchet-tailed Treepie |
x |
x |
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Large-billed Crow |
x |
x |
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Ashy Wood-swallow |
x |
x |
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Black-naped Oriole |
x |
x |
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Slender-billed Oriole |
x |
x |
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Black-hooded Oriole |
x |
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Maroon Oriole |
x |
x |
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Silver Oriole |
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Large Cuckoo-shrike |
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x |
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Indochinese Cuckoo-shrike |
x |
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Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike |
x |
x |
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Lesser Cuckoo-shrike |
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Pied Triller |
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Rosy Minivet |
x |
x |
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Brown-rumped Minivet |
x |
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Ashy Minivet |
x |
x |
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Small Minivet |
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Grey-chinned Minivet |
x |
x |
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Long-tailed Minivet |
x |
x |
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Short-billed Minivet |
x |
x |
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Scarlet Minivet |
x |
x |
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Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike |
x |
x |
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Yellow-bellied Fantail |
x |
x |
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White-throated Fantail |
x |
x |
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Pied Fantail |
x |
x |
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Black Drongo |
x |
x |
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Ashy Drongo |
x |
x |
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Crow-billed Drongo |
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x |
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Bronzed Drongo |
x |
x |
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Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo |
x |
x |
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Hair-crested Drongo |
x |
x |
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Greater Racket-tailed Drongo |
x |
x |
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Black-naped Monarch |
x |
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Asian Paradise-flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Japanese Paradise-flycatcher |
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Common Lora |
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x |
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Green Lora |
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Great Lora |
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x |
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Rufous-winged Flycatcher |
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Maroon-breasted Flycatcher |
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Large Wood-shrike |
x |
x |
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Common Wood-shrike |
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x |
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White-throated Rock-Thrush |
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Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush |
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Blue Rock-Thrush |
x |
x |
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Blue Whistling Thrush |
x |
x |
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Orange-headed Thrush |
x |
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Siberian Thrush |
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Long-tailed Thrush |
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Scaly Thrush |
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Dark-sided Thrush |
x |
x |
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Black-breasted Thrush |
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*Japanese Thrush |
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Grey-winged Blackbird |
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Eurasian (Common) Blackbird |
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Chestnut Thrush |
x |
x |
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Grey-sided Thrush |
x |
x |
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Eyebrowed Thrush |
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x |
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Dark-throated Thrush |
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Dusky Thrush |
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Lesser Shortwing |
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White-browed Shortwing |
x |
x |
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Dark-sided (Siberian) Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Asian Brown Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Brown-streaked Flycatcher |
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Ferruginous Flycatcher |
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Yellow-rumped Flycatcher |
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*Narcissus Flycatcher |
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Mugimaki Flycatcher |
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Slaty-backed Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Rufous-gorgetted Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Red-throated Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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White-gorgetted Flycatcher |
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Rufous-browed Flycatcher |
x |
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Snowy-browed Flycatcher |
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x |
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Little Pied Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Ultramarine Flycatcher |
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Slaty-blue Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Sapphire Flycatcher |
x |
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Blue-and-White Flycatcher |
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Verditer Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Large Niltava |
x |
x |
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Small Niltava |
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Rufous-bellied Niltava |
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Vivid Niltava |
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White-tailed Flycatcher |
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Hainan Blue Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Pale Blue Flycatcher |
x |
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Blue-throated Flycatcher |
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x |
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Chinese Blue Flycatcher |
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Hill Blue Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Tickell's Blue Flycatcher |
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Grey-headed Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Japanese Robin |
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Rufous-tailed Robin |
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Siberian Rubythroat |
x |
x |
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White-tailed Rubythroat |
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Bluethroat |
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x |
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Siberian Blue Robin |
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Orange-flanked Bush-Robin |
x |
x |
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Golden Bush-Robin |
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Oriental Magpie-Robin |
x |
x |
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White-rumped Shama |
x |
x |
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Daurian Redstart |
x |
x |
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Blue-fronted Redstart |
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White-capped Redstart (River Chat)
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x |
x |
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Plumbeous Redstart |
x |
x |
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White-bellied Redstart |
x |
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White-tailed Robin |
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Chestnut-naped Forktail |
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Black-backed Forktail |
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Slaty-backed Forktail |
x |
x |
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White-crowned Forktail |
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Purple Cochoa |
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Green Cochoa |
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x |
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Common Stonechat (Stonechat) |
x |
x |
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Pied Bushchat |
x |
x |
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Jerdon's Bushchat |
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Grey Bushchat |
x |
x |
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Spot-winged Starling |
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Golden-crested Myna |
x |
x |
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Hill Myna |
x |
x |
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White-vented Myna |
x |
x |
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Common Myna |
x |
x |
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Vinous-breasted Starling |
x |
x |
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Black-collared Starling |
x |
x |
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Asian Pied Myna (Starling) |
x |
x |
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Purple-backed Starling |
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White-shouldered Starling |
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x |
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Chestnut-tailed Starling |
|
x |
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Rosy Starling |
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Chestnut-vented Nuthatch |
x |
x |
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Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch |
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Velvet-fronted Nuthatch |
x |
x |
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Giant Nuthatch |
x |
x |
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Brown-throated Treecreeper |
x |
x |
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Fire-capped Tit |
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Great Tit |
x |
x |
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Yellow-cheeked Tit |
x |
x |
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Yellow-browed Tit |
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Sultan Tit |
|
x |
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Bank Swallow (Sand Martin) |
x |
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Dusky Crag-Martin |
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Barn Swallow |
x |
x |
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Wire-tailed Swallow |
x |
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Red-rumped Swallow |
x |
x |
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Striated Swallow |
x |
x |
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Asian House-Martin |
|
x |
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Nepal House-Martin |
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Crested Finchbill |
|
x |
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Striated Bulbul |
x |
x |
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Black-headed Bulbul |
x |
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Black-crested Bulbul |
x |
x |
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Red-whiskered |