Small Birds

This post consists of small birds that don't fall into the bird of prey or water bird categories.  You can argue with my size category or expect me to use standard categories like passerines or something, but all I'm doing is keeping the post size manageable, and they are all pretty anyway.

Coppersmith Barbet - Megalaima haemacephala - a striking bird and reasonably

common. This one was at Bharatpur.  It gets its name from its call which has been

likened to a coppersmith hammering metal.  Like woodpeckers they dig out nest holes

in trees.

Indian Robin - Saxicoloides fulicata - definitely not red-breasted, but red-vented.

Possibly the most striking bird we saw, that's why 

it gets two photos.  Brahminy Starling - Sturnus

pagodarum - found at Bharatpur.

Brahminy Starling - Sturnus pagodarum - found at Bharatpur.

Oriental Magpie Robin - Copsychus saularis - Delightful if a little grumpy looking

Purple Sunbird - Nectarinia asiatica - very flitty, not a poser.

Purple Sunbird - Nectarinia asiatica - This one in full breeding plumage outside the hotel in Ranthambore.

White-eared Bulbul - Pycnonotus leucotis

Red-vented Bulbul - Spizixos canifrons - 

Red-throated Flycatcher - Ficedula parva 

Large Grey Babbler - Turdoides malcolmi - There are 

7 pages of babblers in the bird book, but this is a common

one and easy to identify.  We saw these at our first lunch

stop on the way to Jaipur. This one posed at Bharatpur.

Common Myna - Acridotheres tristis - at Agra.  We also saw the Bank Myna
(Acridotheres ginginianus) but I only got blurry photos.