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Table 8.13 Common avifauna of Indian Sundarbans
Vernacular name
Scientific name
Resident
Little cormorant
Phalacrocorax niger
Great cormorant
P. carbo
Grey heron
Ardea cinerea
Purple heron
A. purpurea
Indian pond-heron
Ardeola grayi
Cattle egret
Bulbucus ibis
Open bill stork
Anastomus oscitans
Great egret
Egretta alba
Intermediate egret
E. intermedia
Little egret
E. garzetta
Black-crowned night heron
Nycticorax nycticorax
Greater adjutant
Leptoptilos dubius
Black-necked stork
Xenorhynchus asiaticus
Black-headed ibis
Threskiornis melanocephala
White-breasted water hen
Amaurornis phoenicurus
Bronze-winged jacana
Metopidius indicus
Pheasant -tailed jacana
Hydrophasianus chirurgus
Black-capped kingfisher
Halcyon pileata
Collared kingfisher
H. chloris
Brown-winged kingfisher
Pelargopsis amauroptera
Migratory species
Spot-billed pelican
Pelecanus philippenensis
Northern pintail
Anas acuta
Common teal
A. crecca
Tufted duck
Aythya fuligula
Common pochard
A. ferina
Ruddy shelduck
Tadorna ferruginea
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopus
Black-tailed godwit
Limosa limosa
Little stint
Calidris minuta
Great knot
C. tenuirostris
In shallow water
Eastern golden plover
Pluvialis dominica
Kentish plover
Charadrius alexandrinus
Eurasian curlew
Numenius arquata
Wood sandpiper
Tringa glareola
Terek sandpiper
Xenus cinereus
Reclaimed area
Indian darter
Anhinga melanogaster
Chestnut bittern
Ixobrychus cinnanoneus
Black bittern
Butoridea stellaris
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A Checklist of Sundarban Mammals