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Thai Binh
This checklist includes all bird species found in Thai Binh , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2). If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Country or region: Thai Binh [map]
Other names: Thái Bình, Tỉnh Thái Bình, Tinh Thai Binh
Number of species: 394
Number of introduced species: 1
Last modified: 2023-04-10
Number of introduced species: 1
Last modified: 2023-04-10
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| Lesser Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna javanica | |
| Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | |
| Baer's Pochard | Aythya baeri | |
| Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| Indian Spot-billed Duck | Anas poecilorhyncha | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Common Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Asian Pygmy Goose | Nettapus coromandelianus | |
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| Crested Argus | Rheinardia ocellata | |
| Japanese Quail | Coturnix japonica | |
| Blue-breasted Quail | Synoicus chinensis | |
| Chinese Francolin | Francolinus pintadeanus | |
| Red Junglefowl | Gallus gallus | |
| Silver Pheasant | Lophura nycthemera | |
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| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
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| Rock Dove | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Oriental Turtle Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | |
| Red Collared Dove | Streptopelia tranquebarica | |
| Spotted-necked Dove | Streptopelia chinensis | |
| Little Cuckoo Dove | Macropygia ruficeps | |
| Thick-billed Green Pigeon | Treron curvirostra | |
| White-bellied Green Pigeon | Treron sieboldii | |
| Emerald Dove | Chalcophaps indica | |
| Green Imperial Pigeon | Ducula aenea | |
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| Grey Nightjar | Caprimulgus indicus | |
| Large-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus macrurus | |
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| Asian Palm Swift | Cypsiurus balasiensis | |
| Dark-rumped Swift | Apus acuticauda | |
| Fork-tailed Swift | Apus pacificus | |
| House Swift | Apus nipalensis | |
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| Greater Coucal | Centropus sinensis | |
| Lesser Coucal | Centropus bengalensis | |
| Green-billed Malkoha | Phaenicophaeus tristis | |
| Chestnut-winged Cuckoo | Clamator coromandus | |
| Common Koel | Eudynamys scolopaceus | |
| Asian Emerald Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx maculatus | |
| Plaintive Cuckoo | Cacomantis merulinus | |
| Drongo Cuckoo | Surniculus lugubris | |
| Large Hawk Cuckoo | Hierococcyx sparverioides | |
| Whistling Hawk Cuckoo | Hierococcyx nisicolor | |
| Indian Cuckoo | Cuculus micropterus | |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
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| Slaty-legged Crake | Rallina eurizonoides | |
| Slaty-breasted Rail | Lewinia striata | |
| Ruddy-breasted Crake | Zapornia fusca | |
| Band-bellied Crake | Zapornia paykullii | |
| Brown Crake | Zapornia akool | |
| Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | |
| White-breasted Waterhen | Amaurornis phoenicurus | |
| Watercock | Gallicrex cinerea | |
| Purple Swamphen | Porphyrio porphyrio | |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Common Coot | Fulica atra | |
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| Common Crane | Grus grus | |
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| Swinhoe's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates monorhis | |
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| Painted Stork | Mycteria leucocephala | |
| Black Stork | Ciconia nigra | |
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| Spot-billed Pelican | Pelecanus philippensis | |
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| Yellow Bittern | Ixobrychus sinensis | |
| Schrenck's Bittern | Ixobrychus eurhythmus | |
| Cinnamon Bittern | Ixobrychus cinnamomeus | |
| Black Bittern | Ixobrychus flavicollis | |
| White-eared Night Heron | Gorsachius magnificus | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| Chinese Pond Heron | Ardeola bacchus | |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Pacific Reef Egret | Egretta sacra | |
| Chinese Egret | Egretta eulophotes | |
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| Black-headed Ibis | Threskiornis melanocephalus | |
| Black-faced Spoonbill | Platalea minor | |
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| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | |
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| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
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| Little Cormorant | Microcarbo niger | |
| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
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| Oriental Darter | Anhinga melanogaster | |
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| Great Thick-knee | Esacus recurvirostris | |
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| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
| Long-billed Plover | Charadrius placidus | |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
| Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
| Lesser Sand Plover | Charadrius mongolus | |
| Greater Sand Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | |
| Oriental Plover | Charadrius veredus | |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | |
| River Lapwing | Vanellus duvaucelii | |
| Grey-headed Lapwing | Vanellus cinereus | |
| Red-wattled Lapwing | Vanellus indicus | |
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| Greater Painted-snipe | Rostratula benghalensis | |
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| Pheasant-tailed Jacana | Hydrophasianus chirurgus | |
| Bronze-winged Jacana | Metopidius indicus | |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | |
| Far Eastern Curlew | Numenius madagascariensis | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
| Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | |
| Spoon-billed Sandpiper | Calidris pygmaea | |
| Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
| Pintail Snipe | Gallinago stenura | |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
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| Common Buttonquail | Turnix sylvaticus | |
| Yellow-legged Buttonquail | Turnix tanki | |
| Barred Buttonquail | Turnix suscitator | |
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| Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | |
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| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
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| Brown-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus | |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Saunders's Gull | Saundersilarus saundersi | |
| Pallas's Gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| River Tern | Sterna aurantia | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Greater Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus | |
| Oriental Honey Buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | |
| Black Baza | Aviceda leuphotes | |
| Crested Serpent Eagle | Spilornis cheela | |
| Greater Spotted Eagle | Clanga clanga | |
| Eastern Imperial Eagle | Aquila heliaca | |
| Bonelli's Eagle | Aquila fasciata | |
| Eastern Marsh Harrier | Circus spilonotus | |
| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
| Pied Harrier | Circus melanoleucos | |
| Shikra | Accipiter badius | |
| Japanese Sparrowhawk | Accipiter gularis | |
| Besra | Accipiter virgatus | |
| Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
| Northern Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | |
| White-bellied Sea Eagle | Haliaeetus leucogaster | |
| Lesser Fish Eagle | Icthyophaga humilis | |
| Grey-headed Fish Eagle | Icthyophaga ichthyaetus | |
| Brahminy Kite | Haliastur indus | |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| Grey-faced Buzzard | Butastur indicus | |
| Eurasian Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
| Japanese Buzzard | Buteo japonicus | |
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| Bay Owl | Phodilus badius | |
| Eastern Grass Owl | Tyto longimembris | |
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| Brown Boobook | Ninox scutulata | |
| Asian Barred Owlet | Glaucidium cuculoides | |
| Mountain Scops Owl | Otus spilocephalus | |
| Oriental Scops Owl | Otus sunia | |
| Collared Scops Owl | Otus bakkamoena | |
| Brown Wood Owl | Strix leptogrammica | |
| Tawny Owl | Strix aluco | |
| Spot-bellied Eagle Owl | Bubo nipalensis | |
| Brown Fish Owl | Ketupa zeylonensis | |
| Tawny Fish Owl | Ketupa flavipes | |
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| Orange-breasted Trogon | Harpactes oreskios | |
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| Great Hornbill | Buceros bicornis | |
| Oriental Pied Hornbill | Anthracoceros albirostris | |
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| Common Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
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| Northern Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
| White-browed Piculet | Sasia ochracea | |
| Speckled Piculet | Picumnus innominatus | |
| Common Flame-backed Woodpecker | Dinopium javanense | |
| Pale-headed Woodpecker | Gecinulus grantia | |
| Rufous Woodpecker | Micropternus brachyurus | |
| Greater Yellow-naped Woodpecker | Chrysophlegma flavinucha | |
| Lesser Yellow-naped Woodpecker | Picus chlorolophus | |
| Grey-headed Woodpecker | Picus canus | |
| Greater Flame-backed Woodpecker | Chrysocolaptes lucidus | |
| Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker | Dendrocopos canicapillus | |
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| Great Barbet | Psilopogon virens | |
| Red-vented Barbet | Psilopogon lagrandieri | |
| Moustached Barbet | Psilopogon incognitus | |
| Blue-eared Barbet | Psilopogon australis | |
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| Blue-bearded Bee-eater | Nyctyornis athertoni | |
| Blue-throated Bee-eater | Merops viridis | |
| Blue-tailed Bee-eater | Merops philippinus | |
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| Indian Roller | Coracias benghalensis | |
| Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | |
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| Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
| Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis | |
| Ruddy Kingfisher | Halcyon coromanda | |
| White-throated Kingfisher | Halcyon smyrnensis | |
| Black-capped Kingfisher | Halcyon pileata | |
| Collared Kingfisher | Todiramphus chloris | |
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| Pied Falconet | Microhierax melanoleucos | |
| Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
| Oriental Hobby | Falco severus | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Blossom-headed Parakeet | Psittacula roseata | |
| Red-breasted Parakeet | Psittacula alexandri | |
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| Blue-naped Pitta | Pitta nipalensis | |
| Blue-rumped Pitta | Pitta soror | |
| Elliot's Pitta | Pitta elliotii | |
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| Silver-breasted Broadbill | Serilophus lunatus | |
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| Grey-chinned Minivet | Pericrocotus solaris | |
| Short-billed Minivet | Pericrocotus brevirostris | |
| Long-tailed Minivet | Pericrocotus ethologus | |
| Scarlet Minivet | Pericrocotus flammeus | |
| Swinhoe's Minivet | Pericrocotus cantonensis | |
| Large Cuckooshrike | Coracina javensis | |
| Black-winged Cuckooshrike | Lalage melaschistos | |
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| Maroon Oriole | Oriolus traillii | |
| Black-naped Oriole | Oriolus chinensis | |
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| Ashy Woodswallow | Artamus fuscus | |
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| Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike | Hemipus picatus | |
| Large Woodshrike | Tephrodornis virgatus | |
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| Common Iora | Aegithina tiphia | |
| Great Iora | Aegithina lafresnayei | |
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| Black Drongo | Dicrurus macrocercus | |
| Ashy Drongo | Dicrurus leucophaeus | |
| Crow-billed Drongo | Dicrurus annectens | |
| Bronzed Drongo | Dicrurus aeneus | |
| Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus remifer | |
| Hair-crested Drongo | Dicrurus hottentottus | |
| Greater Racket-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus paradiseus | |
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| White-throated Fantail | Rhipidura albicollis | |
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| Tiger Shrike | Lanius tigrinus | |
| Brown Shrike | Lanius cristatus | |
| Burmese Shrike | Lanius collurioides | |
| Long-tailed Shrike | Lanius schach | |
| Grey-backed Shrike | Lanius tephronotus | |
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| Ratchet-tailed Treepie | Temnurus temnurus | |
| Red-billed Blue Magpie | Urocissa erythroryncha | |
| Common Green Magpie | Cissa chinensis | |
| Indochinese Green Magpie | Cissa hypoleuca | |
| Eurasian Magpie | Pica pica | |
| Collared Crow | Corvus pectoralis | |
| Large-billed Crow | Corvus macrorhynchos | |
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| Black-naped Monarch | Hypothymis azurea | |
| Amur Paradise-flycatcher | Terpsiphone incei | |
| Blyth's Paradise-flycatcher | Terpsiphone affinis | |
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| Yellow-vented Flowerpecker | Dicaeum chrysorrheum | |
| Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker | Dicaeum cruentatum | |
| Fire-breasted Flowerpecker | Dicaeum ignipectus | |
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| Little Spiderhunter | Arachnothera longirostra | |
| Purple-naped Sunbird | Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum | |
| Ruby-cheeked Sunbird | Chalcoparia singalensis | |
| Olive-backed Sunbird | Cinnyris jugularis | |
| Crimson Sunbird | Aethopyga siparaja | |
| Fork-tailed Sunbird | Aethopyga christinae | |
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| Red Avadavat | Amandava amandava | |
| White-rumped Munia | Lonchura striata | |
| Scaly-breasted Munia | Lonchura punctulata | |
| Black-headed Munia | Lonchura malacca | |
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| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | |
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| Forest Wagtail | Dendronanthus indicus | |
| Olive-backed Pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
| Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | |
| Paddyfield Pipit | Anthus rufulus | |
| Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| Green-headed Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
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| Yellow-billed Grosbeak | Eophona migratoria | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Rosefinch | Erythrina erythrina | |
| Grey-capped Greenfinch | Chloris sinica | |
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| Chestnut-eared Bunting | Emberiza fucata | |
| Black-faced Bunting | Schoeniclus spodocephala | |
| Yellow-breasted Bunting | Schoeniclus aureolus | |
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| Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher | Culicicapa ceylonensis | |
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| Cinereous Tit | Parus cinereus | |
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| Oriental Sky Lark | Alauda gulgula | |
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| Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
| Rufescent Prinia | Prinia rufescens | |
| Grey-breasted Prinia | Prinia hodgsonii | |
| Yellow-bellied Prinia | Prinia flaviventris | |
| Plain Prinia | Prinia inornata | |
| Common Tailorbird | Orthotomus sutorius | |
| Dark-necked Tailorbird | Orthotomus atrogularis | |
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| Rusty-rumped Warbler | Locustella certhiola | |
| Styan's Warbler | Locustella pleskei | |
| Lanceolated Warbler | Locustella lanceolata | |
| Chinese Bush Warbler | Locustella tacsanowskia | |
| Russet Bush Warbler | Locustella mandelli | |
| Striated Grassbird | Megalurus palustris | |
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| Thick-billed Warbler | Arundinax aedon | |
| Black-browed Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus bistrigiceps | |
| Blunt-winged Warbler | Acrocephalus concinens | |
| Oriental Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus orientalis | |
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| Asian House Martin | Delichon dasypus | |
| Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Plain Martin | Riparia paludicola | |
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| Puff-throated Bulbul | Alophoixus pallidus | |
| Ashy Bulbul | Hemixos flavala | |
| Black Bulbul | Hypsipetes leucocephalus | |
| Red-whiskered Bulbul | Pycnonotus jocosus | |
| Light-vented Bulbul | Pycnonotus sinensis | |
| Sooty-headed Bulbul | Pycnonotus aurigaster | |
| Flavescent Bulbul | Pycnonotus flavescens | |
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| Yellow-browed Warbler | Abrornis inornatus | |
| Pallas's Leaf Warbler | Abrornis proregulus | |
| Dusky Warbler | Phylloscopus fuscatus | |
| Buff-throated Warbler | Phylloscopus subaffinis | |
| Yellow-streaked Warbler | Phylloscopus armandii | |
| Radde's Warbler | Phylloscopus schwarzi | |
| Grey-crowned Leaf Warbler | Seicercus tephrocephalus | |
| Alström's Leaf Warbler | Seicercus soror | |
| Bianchi's Leaf Warbler | Seicercus valentini | |
| Eastern Crowned Leaf Warbler | Seicercus coronatus | |
| Chestnut-crowned Leaf Warbler | Seicercus castaniceps | |
| Greenish Leaf Warbler | Seicercus trochiloides | |
| Two-barred Leaf Warbler | Seicercus plumbeitarsus | |
| Arctic Warbler | Seicercus borealis | |
| Pale-legged Leaf Warbler | Seicercus tenellipes | |
| Sulphur-breasted Leaf Warbler | Seicercus ricketti | |
| Ticehurst's Leaf Warbler | Seicercus claudiae | |
| Blyth's Leaf Warbler | Seicercus reguloides | |
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| Grey-bellied Tesia | Tesia cyaniventer | |
| Asian Stubtail | Urosphena squameiceps | |
| Yellow-bellied Warbler | Abroscopus superciliaris | |
| Manchurian Bush Warbler | Horornis canturians | |
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| Yellow-eyed Babbler | Chrysomma sinense | |
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| Striated Yuhina | Yuhina castaniceps | |
| Japanese White-eye | Zosterops japonicus | |
| Oriental White-eye | Zosterops palpebrosus | |
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| Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler | Pomatorhinus ruficollis | |
| Striped Tit Babbler | Mixornis gularis | |
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| Scaly-crowned Babbler | Malacopteron cinereum | |
| Limestone Wren Babbler | Turdinus crispifrons | |
| Eyebrowed Wren Babbler | Napothera epilepidota | |
| Scimitar-billed Wren Babbler | Jabouilleia danjoui | |
| Rufous-rumped Grass Babbler | Graminicola bengalensis | |
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| Blue-winged Minla | Siva cyanouroptera | |
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| Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch | Sitta castanea | |
| Velvet-fronted Nuthatch | Sitta frontalis | |
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| Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Purple-backed Starling | Agropsar sturninus | |
| Black-collared Starling | Gracupica nigricollis | |
| White-shouldered Starling | Sturnia sinensis | |
| Chestnut-tailed Starling | Sturnia malabarica | |
| Red-billed Starling | Spodiopsar sericeus | |
| White-cheeked Starling | Spodiopsar cineraceus | |
| Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | |
| Great Myna | Acridotheres grandis | |
| Crested Myna | Acridotheres cristatellus | |
| Hill Myna | Gracula religiosa | |
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| Brown Dipper | Cinclus pallasii | |
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| Oriental Magpie Robin | Copsychus saularis | |
| White-rumped Shama | Kittacincla malabarica | |
| Dark-sided Flycatcher | Muscicapa sibirica | |
| Asian Brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa dauurica | |
| Hill Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis banyumas | |
| White-tailed Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis concretus | |
| Small Niltava | Niltava macgrigoriae | |
| Blue-and-white Flycatcher | Cyanoptila cyanomelana | |
| Rufous-tailed Robin | Larvivora sibilans | |
| Siberian Blue Robin | Larvivora cyane | |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | |
| White-crowned Forktail | Enicurus leschenaulti | |
| Blue Whistling Thrush | Myophonus caeruleus | |
| Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | |
| White-tailed Robin | Myiomela leucura | |
| Taiga Flycatcher | Ficedula albicilla | |
| Snowy-browed Flycatcher | Ficedula hyperythra | |
| Slaty-blue Flycatcher | Ficedula tricolor | |
| White-throated Rock Thrush | Monticola gularis | |
| Blue Rock Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
| Eastern Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | |
| Jerdon's Bush Chat | Saxicola jerdoni | |
| Grey Bush Chat | Saxicola ferreus | |
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| White's Thrush | Zoothera aurea | |
| Scaly Thrush | Zoothera dauma | |
| Green Cochoa | Cochoa viridis | |
| Siberian Thrush | Geokichla sibirica | |
| Eastern Blackbird | Turdus mandarinus | |
| Japanese Thrush | Turdus cardis | |
| Grey-backed Thrush | Turdus hortulorum | |
| Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | |
| Dusky Thrush | Turdus eunomus | |
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