Birds add another feather to Punjab’s cap with their large and colorful variety. Parrots, peafowl, jungle fowl, pheasants, eagles, vultures, hawks, quails, pelicans, waterfowl, cranes, herons, hoopoes, and doves add to the rich assortment of animals and adorn the state’s natural world.
The legendary and powerful Baz or Eastern Goshawk holds on to its prestigious status of Punjab’s state bird.
A comprehensive list of the birds of Punjab is hereby provided:
- Great Crested
- Little Grebe
- Dabchick
- Darter or Snake
- Large Cromorant
- Little Cormorant
- Eastern Large Egret
- Eastern Grey
- Eastern Purple
- Indian Pond Heron or Paddy Bird
- Cattle Egret
- Great Egret
- Little EgretEgretta
- Smaller or Median Egret
- Chestnut Bittern
- Intermediate Night Heron
- Openbill Stork
- White Stork
- White Necked Stork
- Black Stork
- Adjutant Stork
- Painted Stork
- Spoonbill
- Glossy Ibis
- Indian Black Ibis
- White Ibis
- Flamingo
- Pintail
- Shoveller
- Common Teal
- Falcated or Bronze Capped Teal
- Wigeon
- Mallard
- Eastern Greylag Goose
- Barheaded Goose
- Common Pochard
- Tufted Duck
- Scaup Duck
- White-Eyed Pochard
- Lesser Whistling Teal or Tree Duck
- Goosander
- Redcrested Pochard
- Cotton Teal
- White Headed Stiff Tailed Duck
- Nakta or Comb Duck
- Brahminy or Ruddy Shelduck
- Indian Shikra
- Asiatic Sparrow
- Himalayan Golden Greater Spotted Eagle
