Common Greenshank

The common greenshank is a wader that likes a marshy habitat. It is gray-brown in winter, which is when we saw it in Kaziranga NP in Assam, India. It is brown in its breeding plumage with black on the shoulders and back. The bill has an upturned appearance and it has long greenish legs and a long bill with a gray base. It is a little larger than the related common redshank.  

This common greenshank was found in the Central Range of Kaziranga NP. 

It breeds from northern Scotland through northern Europe and the Palearctic. It winters in Africa, the Indian Subcontinent and Australasia.  

This common greenshank was found in the Burapahar Range of Kaziranga NP. 

Wood Sandpiper

Wikipedia notes that the "wood sandpiper resembles a longer-legged, more delicate form of the...green sandpiper...[but] with a shorter, finer bill, brown back and longer yellowish legs. The wood sandpiper differs from the green by having a smaller, less contrasting white rump-patch. However, it is not closely related to the green sandpiper. Its closest relative is the common redshank. 

This wood sandpiper was found in Kaziranga NP in the Eastern Range. 

"The wood sandpiper breeds in subarctic wetlands, from the Scottish Highlands...[through] Eurasia and the Palearctic. They...migrate to Africa, South Asia (particularly India) and Australia."  

This wood sandpiper was found in the Central Range of Kaziranga NP.

Green Sandpiper

According to Wikipedia, the green sandpiper is a wader with "dark greenish-brown back and wings, grayish head and breast and otherwise white underparts. The back is spotted white to varying extents, being maximal in the breeding adult, and less in winter and young birds. The legs and short bill are both dark green." 

When our guide named it I couldn't see the green and I can't see the green now. 

It is migratory. It breeds in subarctic Europe and winters in southern Europe, the Indian Subcontinents, Southeast Asia and tropical Africa. I saw it in Kaziranga NP in Assam, India in December 2024. It is found in freshwater and sometimes in sites with a lesser view than other waders are willing to use. 

Spotted Dove

I've previously posted on the spotted dove which I saw one of in Udawalawe National Park in Sri Lanka. I have since seen them in Singapore and India (in Delhi, Guwahati and Kaziranga NP). It is another beauty. 

This, and the next three photos, were taken at the Singapore Botanical Gardens.

Near the Diphlu Lodge and Kaziranga NP.

In the Eastern Range of Kaziranga NP.

In the garden of our hotel in Guwahati, Assam, India.

Zebra Dove

The zebra dove is also known as the barred ground dove and barred dove. It is a small beautiful dove I saw in Singapore at the Botanical Gardens. Per Wikipedia, the "upperparts are brownish-gray with black and white barring.  The underparts are pinkish with black bars on the sides of the neck, breast and belly. The face is blue-gray with bare blue skin around the eyes. There are white tips on the tail feathers."

Zebra dove in the Singapore Botanical Gardens. 

They are native to Southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Bali, Lombok and Sumbawa, as well as the Philippines. It can now be found other places, such as Hawaii and the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sulawesi. 

 

Red-Whiskered Bulbul

The red-whiskered bulbul is native to Asia but has been introduced to many areas of the world where populations have established themselves, including the U.S. locations of Los Angeles, where I have seen them several times, Hawaii and Florida. There are nine subspecies and I have no idea which subspecies are found in Los Angeles, where I have seen them at the LA County Arboretum and the Huntington Library. 

At the LA County Arboretum in July 2020.

Wikipedia describes it as about 7.9 inches long, with brown upperparts, whitish underparts, buff flanks and a dark spur running on to the breast at shoulder level. It has a tall pointed black crest, red face patch and thin black moustachial line. The tail is long and brown with white terminal feather tips and a red vent. Juveniles lack the red patch behind the eye and the vent area is rufous-orange. It is a beautiful and striking bird.

At the Huntington Gardens in Los Angeles. 

Yellow-Vented Bulbul

The yellow-vented bulbul, also known as the eastern yellow-vented bulbul, has six subspecies. I saw several at the Singapore Botanical Gardens. I saw the subspecies Pycnonotus goiavier analis, found on the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok and Sumbawa. Other subspecies are found in other parts of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. 

It has a broad supercilium, crownside, white cheeks, throat and belly, yellow vent and undertail coverts (which give it its name), dark brown forehead, ear coverts and coronal stripe, including the crest, and variations of brown elsewhere. Both sexes are alike.