This January I was lucky enough to lead a Birding Ecotours trip to Northern India. The trip was stacked full of incredible birds, such
as Indian Skimmer, Indian Courser, Koklass and Cheer
Pheasants, Painted Spurfowl, Bearded Vulture (Lammergeier), Collared
Falconet, Sarus Crane, Ibisbill, Painted Sandgrouse, Pallid
Scops Owl, Tawny and Brown Fish Owls, Blue-bearded
Bee-eater, Great Hornbill, Sirkeer Malkoha, Long-billed
Thrush, Spotted, Slaty-backed, and Little Forktails, Golden
Bush Robin, Himalayan Bluetail, White-tailed (Himalayan) and Siberian
Rubythroats, Wallcreeper, Rufous-breasted and Altai
Accentors, and White-capped Bunting.
We saw Bengal Tiger, Indian Leopard, Jungle Cat, Asian Elephant, Gharial, Marsh Mugger and numerous other cool wildlife. If this wasn't enough we visited the Taj Mahal and had incredible views of the stunning Himalayas - oh and ate some beautiful food!
I've written a summary of the trip, with a few photos here: http://birdingecotours.com/birding-asia/
The trip report can be found here: http://birdingecotours.com/trip-reports/india (word only view document, or download it as a PDF).
If you're interested in the 2017 tour, please get in touch!
Tiger!
Black-headed Jay
Brown Fish Owl
Cheer Pheasant
Citrine Wagtail
Collared Falconet
Crested Kingfisher
Greater Painted-snipe
Grey-headed Woodpecker - Black-naped Woodpecker a split if you follow HBW taxonomy.
Himalayan Bluethroat
Ibisbill
Indian Courser
Indian Peafowl - National Bird of India
Indian Skimmer
Bearded Vulture (Lammergeier)
Little Forktail
Long-billed Thrush
Orange-headed Thrush - seen very well the week before the tour but I couldn't re-find it during the tour! Gutted as it was a cracker!
Painted Sandgrouse
Painted Spurfowl
Pallid Scops Owl - the first record for Okhla Bird Sanctuary and the Delhi area - found on the first day of the tour! What a way to start! It was present until at least mid-March.
Sarus Cranes
Scaly-bellied Woodpecker
Siberian Rubythroat
Sirkeer Malkoha
Spotted Forktail
Streak-throated Woodpecker
Striated Laughingthrush
Tawny Fish Owl
Wallcreeper
White-tailed (Himalayan) Rubythroat
White-tailed Stonechat
Asian Elephant
Gharial
Indian Leopard
Indian Rock Python
Marsh Mugger
Orange Pansy
Sambar Deer
3-way fight between Spotted Deer
The Himalayas - simply breathtaking
Sunrise at Corbett NP
Sunset at Corbett NP
Corbett Safari
Group enjoying the Himalayan views
Group at the Taj Mahal
