Silent Valley- Created by Nature ; Preserved by Mankind

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Birds

The Park has been identified as one of the “important bird areas of India”. At any time of the day, birds make their presence felt with their songs, warblings and whistlings. Of the 211 species of birds sighted and identified in the Valley, 15 are endemic to the Western Ghats.

One can see a Blue Winged Parakeet speeding away, a shy Emerald Dove walking along the trek path and listen to hundreds of bird sounds among them the sweet song of the Malabar Whistling Thrush!

Birds Endemic to Western Ghats

Nilgiri Wood Pigeon
Bluewinged Parakect
Crimsonthroated Barbet
Greyheaded Bulbul
Whitebellied tree Pie
Rufous Babbler
Wayanad Laughing Thrush
Nilgiri Laughing Thrush
Broadtailed Grass Warbler
Black and Orange Flycatcher
White bellied Blue Flycatcher
Nilgiri Flycatcher
Nilgiri Pipit
Small Sunbird
Rufousbellied Shortwing

List Of Birds Observed In Silent Valley (PDF 60 KB)

Download Silent Valley National Park Winter Bird Survey, 2006 (PDF 32KB)

For more reading:

Birds of Silent Valley - PK Uthaman »

Bird diversity of Silent Valley National Park ( PDF- 238KB) »
(Preliminary report of three bird surveys conducted in Silent Valley.
Please visit again for the refined report by P.K.Uthaman, L. Chandrasekar, K.V. Uthaman and Praveen J )

Perhaps it was all worth it. Some human being walking through it sometimes, passing an inner revolution, shall ask the question : " Oh Mother, am I thy flesh and blood, feel and fever; shall I be thine and would would you be mine ?" That Silent question will be responded to in Silence; in the Silence by the reverential bowing of human will and the trailing branches of trees in Silent Valley.