Top Birding Hot Spots in Pakistan - Punjab
Taunsa Barrage
Updated: 5/20/2006
Information by Birdwatcher's Club of
Pakistan (BCP)
Located about 40 kms from Taunsa city, Taunsa Barrage
falls in district Muzzafargarh. It is built on the river Indus. Every
winters, Taunsa barrage and its surrounding wetlands attract hundreds of
thousands of migrant ducks and other waterfowl which spend the winter
here. The surrounding jungles are home to many more resident and
wintering species. Taunsa barrage is home to a large number of
passerines which can be seen here almost any time here.
Although the total number of bird species seen here have
never been estimated, yet
many rare birds seen here have been documented. Just recently, the very
rare and endangered Jerdon's Babbler has been rediscovered in Punjab by
a photographer G R Mughal at Taunsa Barrage. Below is a small list of
some rare birds and near endemics that could reasonably be expected in
the vicinity of Taunsa Barrage.
Some rare and near endemics birds of Taunsa Barrage are:
1.Jerdon's Babbler
2.Rufous vented Prinia
3.Rufous fronted Prinia
4.Sind Sparrow
5.Greater Spotted Eagle
6.Bar headed Goose
7.Red crested Pochard
8.Oriental Darter
9.Eurasian Bittern
10.Little Bittern
11.Eurasian Spoonbill
12.White Stork
13.Greylag Goose
14.Red necked Falcon
15.Laggar Falcon
16.Small Button Quail
17.Water Rail
18.Purple Swamphen
19.White breasted Waterhen
20.Mac Queen's Bustard
21.Greater-Painted Snipe
22.Great Thick-knee
23.Indian Courser
24.Cream colored Courser
25.Jack Snipe
26.Black bellied Tern
27.Sykes's Nightjar
28.Sind Woodpecker
29.Ashy crowned Finch-lark
30.White-tailed Stone Chat
31.Plain leaf Warbler
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