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Birds seen on train journey to Naga Hills |
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Birds noticed in the flat paddy-lands - Large & small egrets, paddy-egrets, common herons, small buff herons, Marabout Storks, Jabirn storks, jacanas, Brahminy Kites, rollers, bee-eaters, drongos, Pied Kingfishers, blue-and-green Kingfishers, vultures, White-tailed Eagles, a few Govindi Kites & small raptorials (? sp. ?), Cormorants (Ph. Carbo & javanicus), Indian Shag (Ph. furcicollis). A great many weaver-birds' nests in groups on trees. A little owl, (like Athene noctua) on telegraph wire. ( |