Bird Specialties of Pakistan
By BCP members Muhammad Saad N
Qaisrani and Sheikh Nausherwan S Ahmed
The following are the major bird specialties that one can
encounter in Pakistan:
Non-Passerines
Red-necked Grebe
Oriental Darter
Dalmatian Pelican
Black-necked Stork
Greater Flamingo
Glossy Ibis
Black Ibis
Lesser Flamingo
Marbled Duck
Red-crested Pochard
Ferruginous Pochard
Pallas's Fish Eagle
White rumped Vulture
Long-billed Vulture
Cinereous Vulture
Red-headed Vulture
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Greater Spotted Eagle
Imperial Eagle
Sooty Falcon
Grey Francolin
Himalayan SnowcockS
Seesee partridge
Western Tragopan
Koklass pheasant
Cheer pheasant
Little Bustard
MacQueen's Bustard
Great Bustard
Great Indian Bustard
Lesser Florican
Indian Courser
Sociable Lapwing
Yellow wattled Lapwing
Indian Tern
Black-bellied Tern
Indian Skimmer
Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse
Painted Sandgrouse
Crowned Sandgrouse
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
Yellow-eyed Pigeon
Indian Cuckoo
Sirkeer Malkoha
Hume's Owl
Sykes's Nightjar
Indian Grey Hornbill
Brown fronted Woodpecker
Sind Woodpecker
Himalayan Woodpecker
Passerines
Indian Pitta
Rufous-tailed lark
Desert lark
Rosy Minivet
Grey Hypocolius
Robin Accentor
Alpine Accentor
Rufous breasted Accentor
Brown Rock-Chat
Hume's Wheatear
Indian Robin
Song thrush
Large-billed Warbler
Rufous fronted Prinia
Rufous vented Prinia
Grey capped Prinia
Bristled Grass Warbler
Menetries's Warbler
Western crowned Warbler
Tytler's Leaf Warbler
Large-billed Leaf Warbler
Plain Leaf Warbler
White-browed Tit Warbler
Kashmir Flycatcher
Black-chinned Babbler
Rusty-cheeked Scimitar Babbler
Jerdon's Babbler
Large Grey Babbler
White-throated Laughingthrush
Variegated Laughingthrush
Green Shrike Babbler
White throated Tit
White cheeked Tit
Rufous vented Tit
Kashmir Nuthatch
Black headed Jay
Yellow billed Blue Magpie
Rook
Brown necked Raven
Sind Starling
Sind Sparrow
Dead Sea Sparrow
Black breasted Weaver
Brandt's Mountain Finch
Trumpeter Finch
Pink-browed Rosefinch
Red-mantled Rosefinch
Orange Bullfinch
Black and Yellow Grosbeak
Desert Finch
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