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Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Indian muntjac Muntiacus muntjak (B)
Spotted deer Axis axis
Family: Suidae
Wild boar Sus scrofa
Table 8.13 (continued)
Vernacular name
Scientific name
Spoonbill
Platalea teucorodia
Red-wattled lapwing
Vanellus indicus
Grey-headed lapwing
V. cinereus
Herring gull
Larus argentatus (rare visitor)
Great crested tern
Sterna bergii (rare visitor)
Lesser crested tern
S. bengalensis (rare visitor)
Sooty tern
S. fuscata (rare visitor)
Red jungle fowl
Gallus gallus (found in forest areas only)
Swamp partridge
Francolinus gularia
Greater coucal
Centropus sinensis
Occasional visitors to the estuary
Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
Black kite
Milvus migrans
Brahminy kite
Haliastur indus
White-bellied sea-eagle
Haliaeetus leucogaster
Crested serpent eagle
Spilornis cheela
Spotted dove
Streptopelia chinensis
Yellow-footed pigeon
Treron phoenicoptera
Large Indian parakeet
Psittacula eupatria
Rose-ringed parakeet
P. krameri
Barn owl
Tyto alba
Brown fish-owl
Bubo zeylonensis
Spotted owlet
Athene brama
Magpie robin
Copsychus saularis
Asian paradise flycatcher
Terpsiphone paradise
Black drongo
Dicrurus adsimilis
Treepie
Crypsirina vagabonda
Grey shrike
Lanius excubitor
Common swallow
Hirundo rustica
Indian roller
Coracias bengalensis
8 Mangroves: A Reservoir of Biodiversity