On my way back from Dharamshala, I stopped at Pong for a few hours' birding at the wetland. Bar-headed geese have arrived in good numbers. So have the ducks. Company of Devinder Dhadwal is always very educating.
Good plantation to provide habitat to different avi fauna has been done to attract large number of migrants and also to provide good breeding grounds.
We could see in all 55 species as per the following list:
1 Bar-headed Geese
2 Ruddy Shelduck
3 Eurasian Wigeon
4 Common Teal
5 Pintail
6 Northern Shoveller
7 Common Redshank
8 Dunlin
9 Little Ring Plove
10 Kentish plover
11 White Wagtail
12 Citrine Wagtail
13 Temnick’s Stint
14 Northern Lapwing
15 Red-wattled Lapwing
16 Crested Lark
17 Oriental Skylark
18 Eurasian Skylark
19 Paddyfield Pipit
20 Water Pipit
21 Blyth’s Pipit?
22 Woolly-necked Stork
23 Black-eared Kite
24 White Rumped Vulture
25 Egyptian Vulture
26 Large-billed Crow
27 Cinerest Tit
28 Himalayan Bulbul
29 Red-vented Bulbul
30 Grey-breasted Prinia
31 Oriental Magpie Robin
32 Indian Robin
33 Jungle Babbler
34 Jungle Prinia
35 Sicticola
36 Cattle Egret
37 Little Egret
38 Large Egret
39 Grey Heron
40 Common Chifchaff
41 Scaly breasted Munia
42 Tailorbird
43 Common Stone Chat
44 Common or Eurasian Coot
45 Small Praincole
46 Common Myna
47 Bank Myna
48 Indian Coucal
49 Alexandrine Parakeet
50 Common Green Shank
51 Tufted Duck
52 Grey Bush Chat
53 Black Redstart
54 House Sparrow
55 White-throated Kingfisher
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