Birds of Nilgiris

I will keep updating this based on my visits to Coonoor, Ooty and Kotagiri belt. Most of birding is in this region and generally the Nilgiris.

Starting with this round from a family vacation in March, 2020

A blue rock thrush female



A tickell's blue flycatcher from Sim's park



A common Rose-finch female

And the Indian blackbird

There have been many visits to Coonoor and Kotagiri and I am in love with the birdlife and the wildlife there. Here are a few captures.

Continuing on the blackbird theme here are different moods and poses of this Indian beauty:

from our holiday home.

Here is the rare Kashmiri flycatcher which is increasingly an irregular visitor to kotagiri:

The malabar parakeet

The woodpeckers:Brown capped woodpecker and Streak throated woodpwckers (male and female)

The southern hill mayna

The painted bush quail

Nilgiri Laughing thrush

Malabar crested lark

Yellow browed bulbul

Oriental white eye

Cinerous tit

The Black and orange flycatcher

Grey-headed canary flycatcher

Nilgiri wood pigeon

and the one and only Nilgiri Sholakili ( or Nilgiri Blue Robin)

...and some close encounters with Indian sloth bear

and the plentiful  Indian Bison (Gaur)

If you are interested in Nilgiris birdlife feel free to contact Aggal Sir in Kotagiri and he will give a great tour of the endemics