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- Ali, S., & Ripley, S. D., 1969. Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan together with those of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Ceylon. Megapodes to Crab Plover, 1st ed. (Sponsored by the Bombay Natural History Society) Oxford University Press, Bombay. Vol. 2 of 10 vols. Pp. i–xvi, 1–345, 1 l.
- Ali, S., & Ripley, S. D., 1980. Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. Megapodes to Crab Plovers, 2nd (Hardback). (Sponsored by Bombay Natural History Society.) Oxford University Press, Delhi. Vol. 2 of 10 vols. Pp. i–xvi, 1–347.
- Ali, S., & Ripley, S. D., 1983. A pictorial guide to the birds of the Indian Subcontinent, 1st ed. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. Pp. 2 pr. ll., pp. 1–177+2.
- Ali, S., & Ripley, S. D., 1987. Compact handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, Delhi. Pp. i–xlii, 1 l., 1–737, 52 ll.
- Ali, S., & Ripley, S. D., 1989. A pictorial guide to the birds of the Indian Subcontinent, 2nd impression. Bombay Natural History Society; Oxford University Press, Bombay. Pp. 2 pr.ll., pp. 1–177+2.
- Ali, S., & Ripley, S. D., 2001. Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, 2nd ed. (Sponsored by Bombay Natural History Society.) Oxford University Press [Oxford India Paperbacks.], Delhi. Vol. 2 of 10 vols. Pp. 2 ll., pp. i–xvii, 1–347, 2 ll.
- Baker, H. R., & Inglis, C. M., 1930. The birds of southern India including Madras, Malabar, Travancore, Cochin, Coorg and Mysore, 1st ed. Government Press, Madras. Pp. i–xxxiii, 1–504.
- Banks, J., & Banks, J., 1980. A selection of the birds of Sri Lanka, 1st ed. Published by the authors, London. Pp. 18 ll.
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- Bhupathy, S., 1985. Ecology of Purple Moorhens Porphyrio porphyrio poliocephalus (Latham) from January to March 1985 in Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur. PhD Thesis. Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirappalli. Pp. 40+.
- BirdLife International, 2001. Threatened birds of Asia: The BirdLife International Red Data Book. Part B, 1st ed. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK. Vol. 2 of 2 vols. Pp. 4 ll., 1517–3038.
- Blanford, W. T., 1898. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma (Birds). Taylor and Francis, London. Vol. IV of 4 vols. Pp. i–xxi, 1–500.
- Choudhury, A., 2003. Birds of Kaziranga National Park. A checklist, 1st ed. Gibbon Books & The Rhino Foundation for Nature in NE India, Guwahati. Pp. 1–46.
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- Dalgliesh, G., 1907. Familiar Indian birds, 1st ed. West, Newman & Co., London. Pp. i–viii, 1–69.
- Davidar, P., 2011. Wetland birds of Pondicherry region: a pocket field guide. ECOS, Puducherry, India. Pp. 2 ll., i–ix, 1–80, 1 l.
- del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., & Sargatal, J., 1996. Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 3. Hoatzin to Auks, 1st ed. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Vol. 3 of 17 vols. Pp. 1–821.
- del Hoyo, J., & Collar, N. J., 2014. HBW and BirdLife International illustrated checklist of the birds of the world. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Vol. 1 of 2 vols. Pp. 1–903.
- Dement’ev, G. P., & Gladkov, N. A., 1969. Birds of the Soviet Union, 1st ed. (A. Birron, Z. S. Cole, & E. D. Gordon, trans). Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem. Vol. III of 6 vols. Pp. i–xi, 1–756.
- Dement’ev, G. P., & Gladkov, N. A., 1969. Birds of the Soviet Union, 1st ed. (A. Birron, Z. S. Cole, & E. D. Gordon, trans). Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem. Vol. III of 6 vols. Pp. i–xi, 1–756 (1951).
- Dewar, D., 1929. Indian birds’ nests: An account of the nesting operations of the common birds of the plains of India, 1st ed. Thacker, Spink & Co. / Thacker & Co., Ltd. / Higginbothams, Calcutta / Bombay / Madras. Pp. 1–189.
- Dharmakumarsinhji, R. S., & Lavkumar, K. S., 1972. Sixty Indian birds, 1st ed. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, India. Pp. 1–100.
- Dharmakumarsinhji, R. S., & Lavkumar, K. S., 1981. Sixty Indian Birds, Reprint. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, New Delhi. Pp. i–xi, 1–100.
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- Finn, F., 1906. How to know the Indian waders, 1st ed. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta. Pp. i–vii, 1–223.
- Finn, F., 1906. How to know the Indian waders, 1st ed. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta. Pp. i–vii, 1–223.
- Finn, F., 1915. Indian sporting birds. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta. Pp. i–xi, 1–280.
- Finn, F., 1915. Indian sporting birds. Francis Edwards, London. Pp. i–xi, 1–280.
- Finn, F., 1920. How to know the Indian waders, 2nd revised. Thacker, Spink & Co. / W. Thacker & Co., Calcutta, Simla / London. Pp. i–xiii, 1–200.
- Futehally, L., & Ali, S., 1992. About Indian birds, Reprint. Navbharat Enterprises, Bangalore. Pp. i–xiii, 1–82.
- Gopal, B., & Sharma, K. P., 1994. Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan, 1st ed. WWF-India, New Delhi. Pp. 1–37.
- Grewal, B., Sen, S., & Sreenivasan, R., 2012. Birds of Nagaland. The Directorate of Toursim, Nagaland, Pp. 1–200.
- Grimmett, R., Inskipp, C., & Inskipp, T., 1998. Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, 1st ed. Christopher Helm, A & C Black, London. Pp. 1–888.
- Grimmett, R., Inskipp, C., & Inskipp, T., 2000. Birds of Nepal. Prakash Book Depot, New Delhi. Pp. 1–288.
- Grimmett, R., & Inskipp, T., 2003. Birds of northern India, 1st ed. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. Pp. 1–304.
- Grimmett, R., Inskipp, C., & Inskipp, T., 2009. Birds of Nepal, 2nd ed. Prakash Book Depot, New Delhi. Pp. 1–288.
- Grubh, R. B., & Grubh, S. R., 1998. Common water birds of Kanyakumari District. Institute for Restoration of Natural Environment, Peruvilai (Nagercoil). Pp. 1–32.
- Haly, A., 1887. First report on the collection of birds in the Colombo Museum. Colombo Museum, Colombo, Ceylon. Pp. 1–80.
- Henderson, G., & Hume, A. O., 1873. Lahore to Yarkand. Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed by the Expedition of 1870, under T.D. Forsyth, Esq., C.B, 1st ed. L. Reeve & Co., London. Pp. i–xiv, 1–370.
- Hoffmann, T. W., 1984. National Red Data List of Endangered and Rare Birds of Sri Lanka. Ceylon Bird Club and Wild Life and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka, Colombo. Pp. 6.
- Hoffmann, T. W., 1998. Threatened Birds of Sri Lanka: National Red List. Ceylon Bird Club, Colombo. Pp. 1–28.
- Hume, A. O., & Marshall, C. H. T., 1880. The game birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon, 1st ed. Published by the authors, Calcutta. Vol. II of 3 vols. Pp. i–ii, 1–264.
- Hutson, H. P. W., 1954. The birds about Delhi, together with a complete list of birds observed in Delhi and the surrounding country. The Delhi Bird Watching Society, Delhi. Pp. i–xxxix, 1–210.
- Inskipp, C., 1988. A birdwatchers’ guide to Nepal, 1st ed. Prion Ltd., Sandy, United Kingdom. Pp. i–iv, 1–115.
- Inskipp, C., Inskipp, T., & Grimmett, R., 1999. Birds of Bhutan, 1st ed. Oxford University Press, Delhi. Pp. 1–192.
- Jerdon, T. C., 1864. The birds of India: being a natural history of all the birds known to inhabit continental India; with descriptions of the species, genera, families, tribes, and orders, and a brief notice of such families as are not found in India, making it a manual of ornithology specially adapted for India., 1st ed. Published by the author (Printed by George Wyman and Co.), Calcutta. Vol. II.-Part II. of 2 vols. Pp. i–iv, 2 ll., 441–876, i–xxxii.
- Kaul, S. C., 1939. Birds of Kashmir. The Normal Press, Srinagar. Pp. i–xvi, 1–103.
- Kotagama, S., 2006. Birds of Sinharaja, 1st ed. Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka, Colombo. Pp. 1–68.
- Krishnan, M., 2012. Of birds and birdsong, 1st ed. (S. Chandola & A. Chandola, eds). Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, India. Pp. [1–10], 11–328.
- Kumar, A., Sati, J. P., Tak, P. C., & Alfred, J. R. B., 2005. Handbook of Indian wetland birds and their conservation. Director: Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India. Pp. i–xxvi, 1–468.
- Kumar, A., Kankane, P. L., & Baqri, Q. H., 2006. Geo-spatial atlas for the wetland birds of Thar Desert, Rajasthan, 1st ed. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. Pp. i–xii, 1–202.
- Kumar, A., & Shivashankar M, 2014. Birds of NITTE University campus: A pictorial hand-guide to identification of birds int he Nitte University Campus at Deralakatta & Paneer, Mangalore. NITTE University, Mangalore, India. Pp. I–XVI, 1–94.
- Kumar, A. & Shivashankar M., 2014. Birds of NITTE University campus. NITTE University, Mangalore, India. Pp. 1–94.
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