Nagaland

Sr. No. Common Name Scientific name
1 Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus (3)
2 Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis (5)
3 Little Cormorant Phalacrocorax niger (28)
4 Eastern Cattle Egret (Cattle Egret)  Bubulcus ibis (44)
5 Indian Pond-heron Ardeola grayii (42-2a)
6 Black-crowned Night-heron Nycticorax nycticorax (52)
7 Striated Heron (Green-backed Heron)  Butorides striatus (38-41)
8 Black Bittern Dupetor  flavicollis (58) 
9 Chestnut Bittern (Cinnamon Bittern)  Ixobrychus cinnamomeus (56)
10 Lesser Whistling-duck Dendrocygna javanica (88)
11 Comb Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos (115)
12 White-winged Duck (White-winged Wood Duck Cairina scutulata (116)
13 Black-winged Kite (Black-shouldered Kite) Elanus caeruleus (124)
14 Shikra Accipiter badius (137-40)
15 Oriental Honey-buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus (129-30)
16 Rufous-bellied Eagle Hieraaetus kienerii (165)
17 Mountain Hawk-eagle Spizaetus nipalensis (158)
18 Lesser Fish-eagle (Lesser Grey-headed Fish-Eagle) Ichthyophaga humilis (177)
19 Pied Falconet Microhierax melanoleucos (205)
20 Oriental Hobby Falco severus (214-5)
21 Common Hill-partridge Arborophila torqueola (266-9)
22 Painted Bush-quail Perdicula erythrorhyncha (262-3)
23 Yellow-legged Buttonquail (Yellow-legged Bustard-Quail) Turnix tanki (314-5)
24 Blyth’s Tragopan Tragopan blythii (287-8)
25 Slaty-legged Crake Rallina eurizonoides (332)
26 Black-tailed Crake (Elwes’s Crake) Porzana bicolor  (341) 
27 Swinhoe’s Snipe Gallinago megala (407)
28 Ashy Woodpigeon Columba pulchricollis (523)
29 Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis (537-40)
30 Asian Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx maculatus (587)
31 Banded Bay Cuckoo Cacomantis sonneratii (582-3)
32 Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo (Drongo-Cuckoo) Surniculus lugubris (588-9)
33 Jacobin Cuckoo (Pied Cuckoo) Clamator  jacobinus (570-1)   
34 Small Cuckoo (Lesser Cuckoo) Cuculus poliocephalus (581)
35 Whistling Hawk-cuckoo (Hodgson's Hawk Cuckoo) Hierococcyx fugax
36 Eastern Grass-owl (Grass Owl) Tyto capensis
37 Brown Wood-owl Strix leptogrammica (658-60)
38 Great Eared-nightjar Eurostopodus macrotis (668-9)
39 Himalayan Swiftlet Collocalia brevirostris (683-4)
40 Pacific Swift (Fork-tailed Swift) Apus pacificus (699-700)
41 Brown-throated Needletail (Brown-backed Needletailed Swift) Hirundapus giganteus (691)
42 Ruddy Kingfisher Halcyon coromanda  (733-4)
43 Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis (722-4)
44 Yellow-rumped Honeyguide Indicator xanthonotus (793-5)
45 Coppersmith Barbet Megalaima haemacephala (792)
46 Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus (832-3) 
47 Crimson-breasted Pied Woodpecker (Crimson-breasted Woodpecker) Dendrocopos cathpharius (840-1)
48 Darjeeling Pied Woodpecker (Darjeeling Woodpecker) Dendrocopos darjellensis (838-9)
49 Great Slaty Woodpecker Mulleripicus pulverulentus (828-9)
50 Red-rumped Swallow Hirundo daurica (923-8)
51 Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla.flava leucocephala (1875-80)
52 Grey Wagtail Motacilla. cinerea (1884)
53 Citrine Wagtail Motacilla.citreola citreola (1881-3)
54 White Wagtail Motacilla. alba dukhunensis (1885-90)
55 Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni hodgsoni (1852-3)
56 Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus (1864)
57 Rosy Pipit Anthus roseatus (1865)
58 Richard’s Pipit Anthus richardi (1857)
59 Paddyfield Pipit Anthus rufulus (1858-60)
60 Blyth’s Pipit Anthus godlewskii  (1863)
61 Ashy Woodswallow Artamus fuscus (982)
62 Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus (1090-5)
63 Crested Finchbilled Spizixos canifrons (1111)
64 Flavescent Bulbul Pycnonotus flavescens (1137)
65 Striated Bulbul Pycnonotus striatus (1133-4)
66 Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus cristatus (949-50a)
67 Black-naped Blue Monarch (Black-naped Monarch) Hypothymis azurea (1465-9)
68 Purple Cochoa Cochoa purpurea (1690)
69 Green Cochoa Cochoa viridis (1691)
70 Grey-sided Thrush (Fea’s Thrush) Turdus feae (1761)
71 Dusky Thrush Turdus naumanni eunomus (1765)
72 Indian Blackbird Turdus simillimus nigropileus
73 White-collared Blackbird Turdus albocinctus (1749)
74 Small-billed Scaly Thrush (Scaly Thrush) Zoothera dauma (1741-4)
75 Dark-sided Ground-thrush (Lesser Long-billed Thrush) Zoothera marginata (1746) 
76 Blue-fronted Blue Robin (Blue-fronted Robin) Cinclidium  frontale (1682)
77 White-browed Bush-robin Tarsiger indicus (1659)
78 Indian Blue Robin Luscinia brunnea (1650-1)
79 Golden Bush-robin Tarsiger chrysaeus (1657-8)
80 Bluethroat Luscinia svecica svecica (1644-6a)
81 Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis (1661-4)
82 Little Forktail Enicurus scouleri (1684)
83 Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus (1677)
84 Hodgson’s Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni (1674)
85 Common Stonechat Saxicola torquata (1695-8)
86 Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui (1408)
87 Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea (1410)
88 Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
89 Pygmy Blue Flycatcher Muscicapella hodgsoni (1447)
90 Brown-capped Laughingthrush Garrulax austeni (1318)
91 Assam Laughingthrush Trochalopteron chrysopterum
92 Ashy Laughingthrush (Moustached Laughingthrush) Garrulax cineraceus (1291)
93 White-browed Laughingthrush Garrulax sannio (1306)
94 Striped Laughingthrush Garrulax virgatus (1317)
95 Yellow-throated Laughingthrush Garrulax galbanus (1286)
96 Chestnut-backed Laughingthrush Garrulax nuchalis (1285)
97 Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush Garrulax monileger (1275-6)
98 Chestnut-capped Babbler Timalia pileata (1229)
99 Rufous-capped Babbler Stachyris ruficeps (1210)
100 Slender-billed Scimitar-babbler Xiphirhynchus superciliaris (1191-2)
101 Red-billed Mesia (Red-billed Leiothrix) Leiothrix lutea (1335-7)
102 Stripe-throated Yuhina Yuhina gularis (1371-2)
103 Yellow-throated Fulvetta Alcippe cinerea (1378)
104 Gold-breasted Fulvetta Alcippe chrysotis (1376-7)
105 White-browed Fulvetta Alcippe vinipectus (1380-3)
106 Manipur Fulvetta (Streak-throated Fulvetta) Alcippe cinereiceps
107 Rufous-throated Fulvetta Alcippe rufogularis (1386-7)
108 Rusty-fronted Barwing Actinodura egertoni (1348-51)
109 Streak-throated Barwing Actinodura waldeni (1354-6)
110 Long-tailed Sibia Heterophasia picaoides (1401)
111 Beautiful Sibia Heterophasia pulchella (1400)
112 Red-tailed Minla Minla ignotincta (1357)
113 Green Shrike-babbler Pteruthius xanthochlorus (1342-4)
114 Black-headed Shrike-babbler (Rufous-bellied Shrike-Babbler) Pteruthius rufiventer (1340)
115 Cutia Cutia nipalensis (1339)
116 Scaly-breasted Wren-babbler Pnoepyga albiventer (1197-8)
117 Spotted Wren-babbler Spelaeornis formosus (1206)
118 Naga Wren-babbler (Austen’s Wren-Babbler) Spelaeornis chocolatinus (1203-4)
119 Tawny-breasted Wren-babbler Spelaeornis longicaudatus (1202)
120 Eyebrowed Wren-babbler Napothera epilepidota (1195-6)
121 Streaked Wren-babbler Napothera brevicaudata (1194)
122 Long-billed Wren-babbler Rimator malacoptilus (1193)
123 Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler Sphenocichla roberti
124 Greater Rufous-headed Parrotbill Paradoxornis ruficeps (1247-8)
125 Spot-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis guttaticollis (1252)
126 Striated Prinia (Brown Hill Prinia) Prinia criniger (1526-8)
127 Black-throated Prinia Prinia atrogularis (1529-30)
128 Himalayan Aberrant Bush-warbler (Aberrant Bush-Warbler) Cettia flavolivacea (1481-3)
129 Manipur Aberrant Bush-warbler Cettia flavolivacea weberi
130 Large Bush-warbler (Chestnut-crowned Bush-Warbler) Cettia major (1479-80)
131 Brown Bush-warbler Bradypterus luteoventris (1493)
132 Common Tailorbird Orthotomus sutorius (1535-9)
133 Black-necked Tailorbird (Dark-necked Tailorbird) Orthotomus atrogularis (1540)
134 Slaty-bellied Tesia Tesia olivea (1472)
135 Broad-billed Warbler Tickellia hodgsoni (1627)
136 Black-faced Warbler Abroscopus schisticeps (1624-5)
137 Grey-hooded Warbler Seicercus xanthoschistos (1617)
138 Grey-cheeked Warbler Seicercus poliogenys (1620)
139 Grey-crowned Warbler Seicercus tephrocephalus 1615a)
140 Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus fuscatus (1584-6)
141 Tickell’s Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus affinis (1579)
142 Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
143 Large-billed Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus magnirostris (1601)
144 Orange-barred Leaf-warbler (Buff-barred Warbler) Phylloscopus pulcher (1587-9)
145 Grey-faced Leaf-warbler (Ashy-throated Warbler) Phylloscopus maculipennis (1597-9)
146 Yellow-vented Warbler Phylloscopus cantator (1612)
147 Great Tit Parus major (1790-7)
148 Red-headed Tit (Chestnut-capped Tit) Aegithalos concinnus (1818-20)
149 Rusty-flanked Treecreeper Certhia nipalensis (1851)
150 Brown-throated Treecreeper Certhia discolor (1849-50)
151 Yellow-browed Tit Sylviparus modestus (1813-4)
152 Chestnut-vented Nuthatch (Eurasian Nuthatch) Sitta europaea
153 White-tailed Nuthatch Sitta himalayensis (1834-5)
154 Beautiful Nuthatch Sitta formosa  (1837)
155 Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker Dicaeum melanoxanthum (1896)
156 Ruby-cheeked Sunbird Anthreptes singalensis (1906)
157 Crested Bunting Melophus lathami (2060)
158 Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla (2056)
159 Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata (2055-5a)
160 Black-faced Bunting Emberiza spodocephala (2047)
161 Himalayan Greenfinch (Yellow-breasted Greenfinch) Carduelis spinoides (1990,1992)
162 Chestnut Munia Lonchura atricapilla
163 White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata (1967-70) 
164 Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata  (1974-5)
165 House Sparrow Passer domesticus (1938-9a)
166 Eastern Baya Weaver Ploceus philippinus burmanicus
167 Black-hooded Oriole Oriolus xanthornus (958-9)
168 Slender-billed Oriole Oriolus tenuirostris (955)
169 Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus (962-4)
170 Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus (965-6b)
171 Bronzed Drongo Dicrurus aeneus (971)
172 Crow-billed Drongo Dicrurus annectans (970)
173 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus (976-81)
174 Hair-crested Drongo (Spangled Drongo) Dicrurus hottentottus (973)
175 Spot-winged Starling Saroglossa spiloptera (984)
176 Grey-headed Starling (Chestnut-tailed Starling) Sturnus malabaricus (987-9)
177 Vinous-breasted Starling Sturnia burmannica
178 Asian Pied Starling Sturnus contra (1002-4)
179 Common Myna Acridotheres tristis (1006-7)
180 Jungle Myna Acridotheres fuscus (1009-11)
181 White-vented Myna (Great Myna) Acridotheres grandis (1012)
182 Common Hill-myna Gracula religiosa  (1015,1017-8)
183 House Crow Corvus splendens (1048-51)
184 Eastern Jungle Crow Corvus macrorhynchos levaillantii
185 Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius (1020-1)
186 Red-billed Blue Magpie Urocissa erythrorhyncha (1027-8)
187 Grey Treepie Dendrocitta formosae (1037-9)
188 Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus
189 Rain Quail Coturnix coromandelica (252)
190 Indian Eagle-owl Bubo bengalensis
191 Indian Little Nightjar (Indian Nightjar) Caprimulgus asiaticus (680-1)
192 Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major (834)
193 Blue Pitta Pitta cyanea (871)
194 Singing Bushlark Mirafra cantillans (872)
195 Oriental Skylark (Eastern Skylark) Alauda gulgula (904-9)
196 Chin Hills Wren-babbler Spelaeornis oatesi
197 Pale-billed Flowerpecker (Tickell’s Flowerpecker) Dicaeum erythrorynchos (1899-1900) 
198 Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird Aethopyga  gouldiae (1919-21)

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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