Kishore’s led me to your blog, and with your budding interest in birdwatching and confirmed interest in photography–former of interest to me and latter to Kishore–I’d keep an eye on your posts from now on

Would like to add the following two resources to your list to skim: the first gives helpful reviews of the most usable bird books and the second is a great online database of bird photos.
http://toroid.org/ams/bird-books
http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?keyword=bee-eater

And, while I’ve been pouring over the books by Salim Ali and Kazmierczak, I notice that Small bee-eaters are now called Green bee-eaters, and the scientific name for River Tern is Sterna aurantia. Sterna albifrons is shown as Little Tern that is considerably smaller than River Tern.

cheers, Jyoti

@kishore Thanks for the help. Will check out the other books as well.

A Field Guide to the Bird Of India – Krys Kazmierczak

We do have a few more books, eg. A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India by Bikram Grewal and then a host of others, a special one on Kingfishers, one on Raptors etc. But we find the field guide the best along with the Salim Ali book that you have.

Here’s a good place for the right books:

http://www.kolkatabirds.com/bookreview.htm

Hope this helps you along your birding interests.

Cheers…Kishore
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I gave up doing birding reports and delegated this to Jyoti (http://jdesignlab.com/category/bird-watching)

Cheers…Kishore
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