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The camp and surrounding areas have a birdlist of over 260 species, including many sought after specialities.
Birds commonly seen within the camp grounds themselves include Malabar Trogon, Flame-throated and Yellow-browed Bulbuls, Orange Minivet, Puff-throated and Dark-fronted Babblers, Heart-spotted Woodpecker, Indian Blackbird, Malabar Whistling-thrush, Orange-headed Thrush, Indian Pitta, Small Sunbird, Nilgiri Flowerpecker, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Black-naped Blue Monarch, Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher, Asian Paradise Flycatcher, Malabar Grey Hornbill, Ceylon Frogmouth, Oriental Scops Owl, and Brown Hawk-owl.
It is possible to regularly find 15 of the 28 birds endemic or near-endemic to the Western Ghats within the Bhagwan Mahaveer Wildlife Sanctuary, with the exception of those species restricted to areas of higher altitude in the southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
In addition, of a further 13 species found only in the Western Ghats of southern India together with Sri Lanka 11 are found in the Bhagwan Mahaveer Wildlife Sanctuary, alongside 3 species exhibiting subspecies unique to the Western Ghats.
These are listed below - for a comprehensive species list see our checklists page.
Western Ghats endemic or near-endemic [e] species found in the BM wls:
Nilgiri Woodpigeon Columba elphinstonii
Grey-fronted Green-pigeon (Pompadour Green Pigeon) Treron affinis [e]
Malabar Parakeet Psittacula columboides
Malabar Grey Hornbill Ocyceros griseus
Malabar Barbet (Crimson-fronted Barbet) Megalaima malabarica
White-cheeked Barbet Megalaima viridis [e]
Malabar Lark Galerida malabarica
Malabar Woodshrike (Large Woodshrike) Tephrodornis sylvicola
Flame-throated Bulbul (Black-crested Bulbul) Pycnonotus gularis
Grey-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus priocephalus
Malabar Whistling-thrush Myophonus horsfieldii [e]
White-bellied Blue Flycatcher Cyornis pallipes
Nilgiri Flowerpecker (Plain Flowerpecker) Dicaeum concolor
Small Sunbird (Crimson-backed Sunbird) Leptocoma minima
Malabar White-headed Starling (Chestnut-tailed Starling) Sturnia blythii
Species endemic or near-endemic [e] to the ghats and Sri Lanka found in the BM wls:
*indicates that the species exhibits distinct subspecies in India and Sri Lanka
Ceylon Frogmouth (Sri Lanka Frogmouth) Batrachostomus moniliger
Indian Swiftlet Aerodramus unicolor
Malabar Trogon Harpactes fasciatus* [e]
Malabar Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros coronatus [e]
Orange Minivet (Scarlet Minivet) Pericrocotus flammeus
Square-tailed Black Bulbul (Black Bulbul) Hypsipetes ganeesa*
Yellow-browed Bulbul Iole indica [e]
Dark-fronted Babbler Rhopocichla atriceps*
Loten's Sunbird Cinnyris lotenius* [e]
Black-throated Munia Lonchura kelaarti [e]
Lesser Hill Myna (Hill Myna) Gracula indica
Subspecies unique to the Western Ghats found in the BM wls:
Jungle Owlet Glaucidium radiatum malabaricum
Lesser Yellownape Picus chlorolophus chlorigaster
Indian Blackbird Turdus simillimus simillimus
Besides the birds, the Camp is frequented by troops of Hanuman Langurs and Bonnet Macaques, while fruiting trees attract endemic Malabar Giant Squirrels. Butterflies are abundant and confiding, with species including the spectacular Malabar Banded Peacock and delicate Malabar Tree Nymph, both found solely in the Western Ghats.
See our checklists page for detailed species lists.
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