Complete Checklist of Terrestrial migrant Birds of Van Vihar National Park, VVNP

Terrestrial birds are those birds that are more related to land than water. These birds spend most of their time on land looking for food or even nesting. These birds are commonly found in forests, grasslands, shrubs and wooded, semi wooded or semi forest areas.

Large number of Terrestrial migratory birds come to bhopal as soon as winter approaches the State of Madhya Pradesh. One of the early migrants Black Redstart can be seen as early as September and booted warbler that stay till March-April. Van Vihar National Park is an ideal place for terrestrial migrants with trees, open grasslands and a wide variety of flora that attracts these birds. Following is the list of Terrestrial migratory birds that come to Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal.

	Common Name	Scientific Name	Migratory Status
1	Black redstart	Phoenicurus ochruros	Migratory
2	Blue cheeked beeeater	Merops persicus pallas	Migratory
3	Blue rock thrush	Monticola solitarius	Migratory
4	Bluethroat	Luscinia svecica	Migratory
5	Blyths reed Warbler	Acrocephalus dumetorum blyth	Migratory
6	Booted Eagle	Hieraaetus pennatus	Migratory
7	Booted warbler	Hippolais caligata	Migratory
8	Chiffchaff	Phylloscopus collybita	Migratory
9	Clamorous Reed Warbler	Acrocephalus stentoreus	Migratory
10	Common stonechat	Saxicola torquata	Migratory
11	Eurasian wryneck	Jynx torquilla	Migratory
12	Greenish leaf warbler	Phylloscopus trochiloides	Migratory
13	Humes Warbler	Phylloscopus humei	Migratory
14	Lesser white throat	Sylvia curruca	Migratory
15	Oriental tree pipit	Anthus hodgosoni richmond	Migratory
16	Paddyfield Warbler	Acrecephalus agricola	Migratory
17	Pied crested cuckoo	Clamator jacobinus	Migratory
18	Red breasted flycatcher	Ficedula parva	Migratory
19	Verditer Flycatcher	Eumyias thalassina	Migratory

Bhopal Birds : Bhopal Birds provides information about birds of Bhopal city, capital of Madhya Pradesh, a state located in the center of India. It is a resource for checklist of birds of Bhopal and MP (Madhya Pradesh), birding spots and bird watching locations, description and information on birds, bird sightings, migratory status etc.
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