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Asian Openbill is a small stork with conspicuous gap in its bill, allowing the bird to catch its preferred food, the freshwater snails. Adult has white plumage in breeding season, and pale grey for rest of the year.

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Considered to be one of the largest owls in the world, the Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) is an impressive and majestic bird, with distinctive, prominent ear-tufts, a barrel-shaped body, and vivid orange eyes.

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The greylag goose (Anser anser) is a bird with a wide range in the Old World. It is the type species of the genus Anser. It was in pre-Linnean times known as the wild goose ("Anser ferus").

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Sarus cranes (Grus Antigone) in their natural habitat at Bharatpur, India. These cranes are usually seen in pairs.

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Sitting a drumstick or sainjana tree, a Magpie Robin mother feeds her chick in a Delhi garden.

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View of a heronry of Asian openbill storks on a tree in Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India. The Asian openbill or Asian openbill stork (Anastomus oscitans) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.

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The darters or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae having a single genus Anhinga.

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The black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), commonly abbreviated to just night heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia (where it is repla…

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The darters or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae having a single genus Anhinga.

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Sarus cranes (Grus Antigone) in their natural habitat at Bharatpur, India. These cranes are usually seen in pairs.

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A colony of Painted Storks perched on tree. Painted storks at their nesting site in Delhi. The painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a large wading bird in the stork family.

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Hear their lovely calls! Blossom-headed or Plum-headed parakeets perching on tree tops in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan.

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The crested honey buzzard (Pernis ptilorhyncus) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, eagles and harriers. This species is also known as the Oriental honey buzzard.

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The Gould's shortwing (Brachypteryx stellata) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae (it was formerly assigned to the Turdidae). It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam.

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"This rare bird was filmed by our consultant ornithologist Chewang Bonpo who runs the fine birding and home stay property at Bon Farmhouse in Kewzing Village, West Sikkim.

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The Ibisbill is a strange and unique wader of wide high-altitude Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau valleys with flat stony rivers. Its range extends across central Asia from Kazakhstan to nw. China and south to nw. India.

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A warbler perched on a tree branch in Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur. The Keoladeo National Park or Keoladeo Ghana National Park formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India is a famous avifauna sanctuary…

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Verditer Flycatcher is a beautiful sky-blue bird. This is an adult Asian verditer flycatcher, Eumyias thalassina, a member of the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.

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Lesser Yellow-nape Woodpecker is a jungle species which nests in a tree hole, laying two to four white eggs.

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Openbill Stork searches for molluscs, Little Cormorant on Ken river. Asian Openbill is a small stork with conspicuous gap in its bill, allowing the bird to catch its preferred food, the freshwater snails.

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The little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis), also known as dabchick, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. At 23 to 29 cm (9.1 to 11.4 in) in length it is the smallest European member of its family.

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The russet sparrow (Passer rutilans), also called the cinnamon or cinnamon tree sparrow, is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae.

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The Eurasian coot (Fulica atra), also known as coot, is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae. It is found in Europe, Asia, Australia and parts of Africa.