Patna Bird Sanctuary
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The water quality of the lake supports a wide range of avifauna during winter season. The entire lake area gets covered by profuse growth of macrophytic vegetation of water hyacinth and Potamogeton species during summers.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
About 200,000 birds of 300 different bird species frequent the sanctuary. More than 106 species of migratory and resident birds are known to have their resting habitats around the lake. The important aquatic birds inhabiting lake are:Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Lesser whistling-duck
- Graylag goose
- Comb duck
- Ruddy shelduck
- Gadwall
- Eurasian wigeon
- Indian spot-billed duck
- Northern shoveler
- Northern pintail
- Green-winged teal
- Common pochard
- Ferruginous duck
- Baer's pochard
- Tufted duck
- Indian peafowl
- Common quail
- Black francolin
- Gray francolin
- Little grebe
- Asian openbill
- Woolly-necked stork
- Black-necked stork
- Little cormorant
- Great cormorant
- Purple heron
- Cattle egret
- Indian pond-heron
- Black-headed ibis
- Red-naped ibis
- Eurasian spoonbill
- Black-shouldered kite
- Egyptian vulture
- Booted eagle
- Bonelli's eagle
- Shikra
- Black kite
- Eurasian coot
- Sarus crane
- Black-winged stilt
- Black-tailed godwit
- Laughing dove
- Greater coucal
- Rose-ringed parakeet
- Plum-headed parakeet
- Long-tailed shrike
- Black drongo
- Rufous treepie
- Ashy-crowned sparrow-lark
- Bengal bushlark
- Red-vented bulbul
- Plain leaf warbler
- Ashy prinia
- Plain prinia
- Common babbler
- Oriental magpie-robin
- Brahminy starling
- Common myna
- Bank myna
- Purple sunbird
- Indian silverbill
- Scaly-breasted munia
See also
References
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External links
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- http://etah.nic.in/patna.htm
- http://www.harrivainolaphoto.com/patna.html
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