Introduction
Our family is cultivating cardamom in Peechad, a small town in Munnar, Kerala, India. Located deep inside the Idduki district, our plantation borders a thick rainforest. Thus we get a wide variety of fauna visiting the plantation. Here, I list all the species I have documented in and around the region.
Birds
- Asian Fairy Bluebird
- Malabar Trogon
- Malabar Whistling Thrush
- Yellow Browed Bulbul
- Racket Tail Drongo
- Lesser Flameback woodpecker
- White Bellied Treepie
- Lesser Hill Myna
- Red Whiskered Bulbul
- Tailor Bird
- Crested Serpent Eagle
- White Breasted Kingfisher (Around water bodies)
- Lesser Cormorant (Around water bodies)
- Orange Minivet
- White Bellied Woodpecker
- Crow Pheasant / Coucal
- Rose Ringed Parakeet
- Plum Headed Parakeet
- White Bellied Drongo
- Brown Fish Owl
- Asian Koel
- Spotted Dove
- Common Pigeon
- Crimson backed Sunbird
- Pond Heron
- Grey Wagtail
- Loten’s Sunbird
- Blossom headed Parakeet
- Pale Billed Flowerpecker
- Malabar Grey Hornbill
- Orange headed Thrush
- Black eagle
- Asian Paradise Flycatcher
- Chestnut Headed bee-eater
- Red or Painted Spurfowl
- White Cheeked Barbett
- Booted Eagle
- Oriental Honey Buzzard
- Black Bulbul
- Great Flameback woodpecker
- Vernal Hanging Parrot
- Common Hawk Cuckoo
- Emerald Dove
- Brown breasted flycatcher
- Red Rumped Swallow
- Grey Tits
- House Crow
- Jungle Crow
- Hoopoe
Bird Images
Reptiles and Amphibians
- Travancore Wolf Snake
- Rat Snake
- Thackeray’s cat snake
- Brown Vine Snake
- Bi Coloured Frog
- Golden Frog
- Nilgiri Forest Lizard
- Green Vine Snake
- Malabar Pit Viper
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Mammals
- Malabar Giant Squirrel
- Asiatic Elephant
- Gaur
- Sambhar Deer
- Barking Deer
- Nilgiri Marten
- Porcupine
- Bonnet Macaque
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