TAWNY
EAGLE [AQUILA VINDHIANA]
Diet : Lizards, Jirds, birds Habitat : Well wooded rocky dry deciduous
forests Most Active : Early morning at Jalore
Wildlife Sanctuary. Size : 63-71 cm
Nests from November to April and lays 2-3 eggs
BLACK
WINGED KITE [ELANUS CAERULEUS]
Diet : Locust, crickets, jirds and lizards Habitat : Well wooded rocky dry
deciduous forests and greenlands. Most Active : Early morning at Jalore
Wildlife Sanctuary.
Nests all year and lays 3-4 eggs.
GREY
PARTRIDGE [FRANCOLINUS PONDICERIANUS]
Diet : Seeds, crickets Habitat : Lives in groups, cannot fly
long distances.
Most Active : Early morning and
evening in the Jalore Wildlife Sanctuary.
UNIDENTIFIED
OWLET
Most Active : Evening in Jalore
Wildlife Sanctuary.
INDIAN
SILVERBILL [LONCHURA MALABARICA]
Diet : Seeds and insects. Habitat : Dry cultivation, grassland
and thorn scrub.
Most Active : Evening in Jalore
Wildlife Sanctuary.
Eurasian Eagle Owl*
Diet : Chiefly beetles and other insects; also
young birds, mice and lizards. Habitat : Chiefly crepuscular and
nocturnal.
Most Active : Evening in Jalore
Wildlife Sanctuary.
Sirkeer Malkoha
Long-Billed
Vulture
Eurasian Vulture
Eight rare Eurasian Vultures have made the Jalore Wildlife
Sanctuary their winter home before migrating back to Eurasia in summer.
Birds of Jalore Wildlife
Sanctuary
Documented
by: The Team of True Luxury Tours including additions and further
verification by Sumit Dookia Ph. D. (Zoology).
1. Black-Shouldered
Kite
2. Shikra
*
3. Black
Kite
4. Indian
Long-Billed Vulture **F
5. Jungle
Bush Quail **
6. Rock
Bush Quail
7. Grey
Francolin
8. Indian
Peafowl
9. Red
Wattled Lapwing
10. Blue
Rock Pigeon
11. Ring
Dove
12. Spotted Dove
13. Little
Brown Dove
14. Rose
Ringed Parakeet
15. Plum
Headed Parakeet *F
16. Alexandrine
ParakeetF
17. Crow
Pheasant
18. Spotted
Owlet
19. European
Roller
20. Indian Roller
21. Grey
Shrike
22. Black
Durango
23. Brahminy
Myna
24. Common
Myna
25. Rufous
Tree Pie
26. House
Crow
27. Red-Vented
Bulbul
28. White-Headed-Babbler
29. White-Browed
Fantail FlycatcherF
30. Common
Babbler
31. Jungle
Babbler F
32. Common
Tailor Bird
33. Common
Stone Chat
34. Great
Tit F
35. Oriental
White Eye
36. House
Sparrow
37. Indian
Silverbill
38. Purple
Sunbird
39. Green
Bee-Eater
40. House
Swift
41. Wryneck
42. Variable
Wheatear
43. Paregrine
Falcon
44. Common
Kestral
45. House
Bunting
46. Black
Red Start
47. Tawny
Eagle *
48. Red-Turtledove
49. Dusky
Crag Martin
50. Desert
Warbler
51. Pied
CuckooF
52. Brown
Rockchat
53. Large
Grey Babbler
54. White
Bellied MinivetF
55. Small
Minivet
56. Crescent
Serpent Eagle *
57. Eurasian Griffon
58. Rufous Treepai
59. Yellow crowned Sparrow
60. Sirkeer Malkoha
61. Ashy crowned Sparrow lark
62. Black Drongo
63. Rosy Pastor
64. Cattle Egret
* rare but
commonly seen at the Jalore Wildlife Sanctuary
** rare and uncommon to see
F - Forest Dweller