India
What is recorded in India
- Species
- 6,416
- Grid cells
- 113,584
- Records
- 38,928,932
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 4,112
- Birds 1,164
- Bony fish 493
- Reptiles 316
- Amphibians 178
- Mammals 137
- Sharks and rays 16
These are species with at least one recorded territory in India, not a national checklist: a bird list from eBird or Avibase is more complete. The counts follow recording effort as much as wildlife, so a country with more visitors and more naturalists will show more of both.
Most recorded here
The species with the most open occurrence records in India, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
House Crow
Corvus splendens
Common Myna
Acridotheres tristis
Red-vented Bulbul
Pycnonotus cafer
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameri
Large-billed Crow
Corvus macrorhynchos
Common Tailorbird
Orthotomus sutorius
White-throated Kingfisher
Halcyon smyrnensis
Asian Koel
Eudynamys scolopaceus
Black Kite
Milvus migrans
Black Drongo
Dicrurus macrocercus
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Pycnonotus jocosus
Indian Pond Heron
Ardeola grayii
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under India.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers India on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.