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Birds Recorded From my HomeChinese Bulbul

Bird species that I have seen or heard from the window of my sixth-floor apartment on Chung-shan North Road section 7.

  1. Little Egret Egretta eulophotes
  2. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
  3. Crested Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheela
  4. Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola thoracica *
  5. Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis
  6. Red Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalisA view from my window.
  7. Rock Dove (feral pigeon) Columba livia
  8. Collared Scops Owl Otus bakkamoena occasionally heard (and sometimes seen) during all-nightersCollared Scops Owl
  9. Muller's Barbet Megalaima oorti *
  10. House Swift Apus affinis
  11. Pacific Swallow Hirundo tahitica
  12. White/Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba leucopsis
  13. Gray Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
  14. Chinese Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
  15. Black Bulbul Hypsipetes madagascariensis
  16. Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus *
  17. Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius philippensis
  18. Formosan Whistling Thrush Myiophoneus insularis screeches outside every morning before dawn
  19. Lesser/Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis *
  20. Hwamei/Melodious Laughing Thrush Garrulax canorus * (caged/escapee?)
  21. Red-tailed Laughing Thrush Garrulax milnei an escapee, but what a surprise!
  22. Red-headed Tree Babbler Stachyris ruficeps *
  23. Black-naped Blue Monarch Hypothymis azurea *Red-tailed Laughing Thrush
  24. Japanese White-eye Zosterops japonica simplex
  25. Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
  26. Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
  27. Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
  28. White-vented Myna Acridotheres javanicus
  29. Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
  30. Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocerus
  31. Gray Treepie Dendrocitta formosae
  32. Red Lory Eos bornea
* only heard so far
Sunset from my window.
Bird species seen extremely close to my house (from outside) but not yet seen from my window:
  1. Crested Goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus
  2. Rufous Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
  3. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
  4. Brown/Red-bellied Thrush Turdus chrysolaus
  5. Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
  6. Goffin's Cockatoo Cacatua goffini

Compiled as of May 21, 1999


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