India Tour: Tiger and Birds-2019

10 March 2019 – 22 March 2019

Sanjib Acharya

Participants: Enrique Marcello, Coral Bordas, Manolo Arribas, Guillermo Munoz and Sanjib Acharya

Overview of the tour:

 India is very rich in many cultural, religious and ethical aspects and indeed very diversity in flora and fauna.

This tour was very exciting for all of us because we had many chats and discussion for more than 5 months for this tour, many talks about birds and tiger sightings and photography. We visited many great destinations during the tour, the world famous national parks such as Keoladeo, Bandhavgarh and Corbett National Park.  We also visited Beautiful Himalayan foothills both Sattal and Pangot. Overall we have visited very important places for wildlife diversity form the Plains to up to the mountains. As a result we had really good variety of wildlife. We also made a visit to the phenomenon of architect and a famous UNESCO world-heritage site The Tajmahal (a symbol of Love).

The tour provided very great opportunities to framed so many beautiful birds, Such as Sarus Crane, Indian Scops Owl, Dusky Eagle Owl, Black Bittern, Ferruginous Duck, Bar-headed Goose, Dalmatian Pelican, Indian Skimmer, Black-bellied Tern, Great Thick-knee, Painted Sandgrouse, Great Hornbill, Lesser Fish Eagle, Rufous-chinned Laughingthrush,  Kalij, Koklass and Cheer Pheasants.  A total of 320 bird species recorded (plus some heard only). We also manage to locate and framed some mammals including the majestic Bengal Tiger, Samber, Indian Gazzel, Nilgai, Indian Bison and few exciting reptiles including Burmese Python, Indian Monitor Lizard, Marsh Mugger and Gharial.

Visited Sites

General Travelling Information

March 10: Okhla Bird Santuary (Pre-tour visit)

March 11: Travel to Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park

March 12: Chambal River Safari

March 13: Bandhavgarh NP

March 14-16: Game Drive Inside Bandhavgarh NP

March 17: Corbet National Park

March 19: Sattal

March 20: Pangot

March 22: Drive back to Delhi

Recommended Literature

India Tour: Tiger and Birds:- March 2019 (Part I)

India Tour: Tiger and Birds:- March 2019 (Part II)

India Tour: Tiger and Birds:- March 2019 (Part III)

Acknowledgements

Enrique Marcello for the trip reports.

Species List

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Published: 03 April 2020
Last updated: 20 May 2020
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