North and northeast

As part of being a research scholar, traveling is a rewarding privilege. So this Jan 2009, I went off to attend WiSSAP at IIT Kanpur, and from there to NCC at IIT Guwahati. In between got to see the Taj Mahal at Agra, and spent a night at Delhi. And on the return, we had a day at Calcutta.

Did some birding whenever I could. These were some of the interesting sightings:

Kanpur-Agra-Delhi

Laughing dove
Pied myna
Brahmini myna
Common myna
Magpie robin
Rufus treepie
Indian peafowl
Blue throated flycatcher
Spotted owlet
Mottled wood owl (?)
Egyptian vulture
Sarus crane
Indian robin
Pied bushchat
Pied wagtail
Some other wagtail (?)
Common stonechat
Rose-ringed parakeet
Blossom headed parakeet (light was poor, so unsure)
Blue rock pegion
House sparrow
Great cormorant
Painted stork
Some duck (didnt have binos) (?)
Black winged stilts
Pied kingfisher
Some tern (?)
Egrets
Baya weaver (nests only!)
Black drongo
Greater coucal
Red wattled lapwing
Pond heron
Adjutant stork (en route to Guwahati)
Dabchick
Rev vented bulbul
Hoopoe
Nothern shoveller
Grey heron

At IITG

Bronze-winged jacana
Great tit
Magpie robin
Common stonechat
Pied bushchat
Open-billed stork
Pond heron
Indian moorhen
Dabchick
Common myna
Red vented bulbul
Common sandpiper
Barn swallow
Egrets
Cormorants