A cool canal just outside IIT Kanpur provides the perfect setting for feathered friends to thrive in. The birds seen here are a common sample of the fauna of the Gangetic plains. Crows, mynas, sparrows, babblers, warblers, barbets, bee eaters, drongos, cuckoos, parrots, tree pies, owls, kingfishers, red wattled lapwings, pink flecked doves, ghughoo, munias, sunbirds, kites, bahmini mynas, robins, orioles, sarus cranes and peacocks are some of the familiar birds in Uttar Pradesh.