Lakshadweep

Sr. No. Common Name Scientific name
1 Audubon’s Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri (11)
2 Flesh-footed Shearwater Puffinus carneipes (8)
3 Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus (9)
4 Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhis (16)
5 Wilson’s Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus (14)
6 Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus (17)
7 Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo (26)
8 Great Frigatebird Fregata minor (31)
9 Brown Booby Sula leucogaster (25)
10 Masked Booby Sula dactylatra (23)
11 Western Reef-heron (Western Reef-egret)  Egretta gularis (50)
12 Little Egret Egretta garzetta (49)
13 Eastern Cattle Egret (Cattle Egret)  Bubulcus ibis (44)
14 Grey Heron Ardea cinerea (35-6)
15 Purple Heron Ardea purpurea (37-7a)
16 Indian Pond-heron Ardeola grayii (42-2a)
17 Striated Heron (Green-backed Heron)  Butorides striatus (38-41)
18 Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis (57)
19 Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea (90)
20 Common Teal Anas crecca (94)
21 Garganey Anas querquedula (104)
22 Ferruginous Duck (Ferruginous Pochard) Aythya nyroca (109)
23 Black-winged Kite (Black-shouldered Kite) Elanus caeruleus (124)
24 Black Kite Milvus migrans migrans/govinda (132-4)
25 White-bellied Sea-eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster (173) 
26 Montagu’s Harrier Circus pygargus (191)
27 Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus (190)
28 Western Marsh Harrier (Eurasian Marsh Harrier) Circus aeruginosus (193-4)
29 Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus (222-4)
30 Peregrine Falcon (Shaheen) Falco peregrinus (210)
31 White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus (343-5)
32 Crab-plover Dromas ardeola (434)
33 Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta (432)
34 Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus (430-1)
35 Indian Stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus (435-6)
36 Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola (371)
37 Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva (373)
38 Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii (374)
39 Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius mongolus (384-4a)
40 Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus (381-2)
41 Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (387-8)
42 Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus (385-6)
43 Western Black-tailed Godwit (Black-tailed Godwit) Limosa limosa (389-90)
44 Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica (391-1a)
45 Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus (400)
46 Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia (396)
47 Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (398)
48 Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus (397)
49 Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos (401)
50 Common Redshank Tringa totanus (393-4)
51 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres (402)
52 Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris (413)
53 Little Stint Calidris minuta (416)
54 Sanderling Calidris alba (414)
55 Parasitic Jaeger   Stercorarius parasiticus (448)
56 Caspian Gull (Yellow-legged Gull) Larus cachinnans (451)
57 Little Tern Sterna albifrons (475-6)
58 White-cheeked Tern Sterna repressa (467)
59 Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon  nilotica (460-1)
60 Lesser Crested Tern Sterna benghalensis (479)
61 Great Crested Tern Sterna bergii (478)
62 Bridled Tern Sterna anaethetus (471-3)
63 Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata (474)
64 Lesser Noddy (?)Anous tenuirostris
65 Brown Noddy Anous stolidus (481)
66 Rock Pigeon Columba livia (516-7)
67 Oriental Turtle-dove Streptopelia orientalis (530-33)
68 Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri (549-50)
69 Grey-bellied Cuckoo Cacomantis passerinus (584)
70 Jacobin Cuckoo (Pied Cuckoo) Clamator  jacobinus (570-1)   
71 Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopacea (590-2)
72 Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus (577-9)
73 Brown Wood-owl Strix leptogrammica (658-60)
74 Asian Palm-swift Cypsiurus balasiensis (707-8)
75 Little Swift (House Swift) Apus affinis (702-6)
76 Indian Roller Coracias benghalensis benghalensis(755-7)
77 Common Hoopoe Upupa epops epops(763-6)
78 Black-capped Kingfisher Halcyon pileata (739)
79 White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis (735-8)
80 Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura (867)
81 Common Sand-martin (Sand Martin) Riparia riparia (911)
82 Pale Sand-martin Riparia diluta indica (910)
83 Northern House-martin Delichon urbica (930)
84 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica (916-8)
85 Red-rumped Swallow Hirundo daurica (923-8)
86 Western Yellow Wagtail (Yellow Wagtail) Motacilla.flava leucocephala (1875-80)
87 Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea (1884)
88 White Wagtail Motacilla alba dukhunensis (1885-90)
89 Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis trivialis (1854-5)
90 Richard’s Pipit Anthus richardi (1857)
91 Paddyfield Pipit Anthus rufulus (1858-60)
92 Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus cristatus (949-50a)
93 Blyth’s Reed-warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum (1556)
94 Oriental White-eye Zosterops palpebrosus (1933-6)
95 House Crow Corvus splendens (1048-51)

The numbers in brackets indicate the synospsis number (HB number) as quoted in "The Compact Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan" (Second Edition) by Salim Ali & S.D. Ripley

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