List of 10 Most Beautiful Indian State Birds

The State Birds of India changes from Himalayan Monal to large land birds like the Great Indian Bustard and Sarus Crane, from small sparrow to colorful birds like Pigeons and Dove. Here is the list of top 10 most beautiful birds of Indian states and union territories.

Great Hornbill – Arunachal Pradesh/ Kerala

Great hornbill (Buceros bicornis) is the largest species of hornbill found in India, The yellow and black big bird is listed as Vulnerable and currently is the state bird of Arunachal Pradesh and official state bird of Kerala.

Great Indian Bustard – Rajasthan

Great Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) is the state bird of Rajasthan, known as Godawan in local. Godawan or Indian Bustard is among the heaviest of the flying birds in India but Critically Endangered due to hunting and habitat loss.

Sarus Crane – Uttar Pradesh

Sarus crane (Antigone antigone) is tallest flying bird in the world and largest species of bird found in India along with more cranes found in parts of Indian subcontinent.

The tallest of the flying birds, standing at a height of up to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) and official state bird of Uttar Pradesh.

Himalayan Monal – Uttarakhand

Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus) is the most beautiful pheasant bird, native to Himalayan forest and state bird of Uttarakhand.
This large-sized pheasant male bird has multicoloured plumage and display of plumage during breeding season.

Indian Paradise Flycatcher – Madhya Pradesh

Indian Paradise Flycatcher has the longest ribbonlike tail and with black and rufous plumage and Pure black white plumage. This passerine bird is one of the long tail birds of India from flycatcher family and state bird of Madhya Pradesh.

Emerald Dove – Tamil Nadu

The emerald dove (Chalcophaps indica) is green dove bird from pigeon family and state bird of Tamil Nadu.
Common emerald dove found on wide variety of forest and one of the 10 species of Dove Bird found in India.

Yellow-footed Green Pigeon – Maharashtra

Yellow-footed green pigeon also known as green pigeon Hariyal in Marathi, is the state bird of Maharashtra.
Green pigeons are some of the most common species of pigeon found in the Indian subcontinent.

Flame-throated Bulbul – Goa

Flame-throated bulbul (Rubigula gularis) found only in the green forest of the Western Ghats from Maharashtra and Goa.
The flame-throated bulbul is the state bird of Goa and one of the beautiful species of bulbul found in India.

Common Hill Myna – Chhattisgarh

Common hill myna (Gracula religiosa) is one of the black and most commonly sighted bird in aviculture of Indian forest. Hill myna is a resident breeder of Indian states and a Symbols of Chhattisgarh, State bird of Chhattisgarh.

Indian Roller – Karnataka/ Telangana/ Odisha

Indian roller (Coracias benghalensis) is blue wing bird known as neelkanth in Hindi and one of the sacred bird to Hindu. This blue bird is knonw for aerobatic display of wings in the air and loud calls.

Indian roller is the state bird of Odisha
Indian roller is the state bird of Karnataka
Indian roller is the state bird of Telangana

The black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) of Ladakh is one of the six large species of crane birds found in India, This one breeds in cold desert mountains of Ladakh and Tibetan Plateau to remote parts of Bhutan.

The state bird of Bihar is House Sparrow, Blyth’s tragopan bird of Nagaland,Western tragopan bird of Himachal Pradesh, White-throated kingfisher in West Bengal and Greater flamingo from Gujarat.