Birds of North India Tour
North India Birding Safari - 15 Days
Delhi-Bharatpur-Chambal-Saatal-Pangot-Corbett-Delhi.
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| Day 1 |
Arrive New Delhi, Meals: breakfast.
Arrive Delhi International airport in the day. You will be met and transferred to
the hotel (day room). Day at leisure with other member in the package. . Overnight in the hotel.
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| Day 2-5 |
Bharatpur, Meals: breakfast.
Drive to Bharatpur in the morning (4 hours). Three full days of guided birding in Keoladeo
Ghana bird sanctuary on foot and cycle rickshaw. Bharatpur has some of
the best wetlands and is World heritage site. Over 310 species
of birds in Bharatpur find a refuge in the 28 square kilometers of shallow lakes & woodland. A third of them are winter migrants which breed as far as Siberia &
Central Asia.
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| Day 6 |
National Chambal Sanctuary, Meals: breakfast.
Transfer to Chambal early in the morning. Morning boat cruise with a guide to see
Indian skimmer, black-bellied tern, raptors, common, demoiselle and sarus crane and marsh crocodiles, river
dolphins; turtle etc. Return by 1500 hours to Agra. Afternoon visit to the Taj Mahal
(optional). Transfer from the hotel in the evening to connect train to Lal Kuan
(railhead for Nainital; 3 hours drive) at 2130 hr. Overnight in air-conditioned
sleeper train.
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| Day 7 |
Saatal-Pangot, 15 km from Nainital, Meals: breakfast.
Arrive Lal Kuan at 0830 hours. Transferred to Saatal.
Spend the day bird watching with guide.One can see a large number of Himalayan birds on the trek lieothrix, accentors,
wren warbler, tesias, greater & lesser yellow naped wood peckers, brown headed barbet, blue-throated
barbet, streaked laughing thrush, rufous-chinned laughing thrush, Himalayan Bulbul, black bulbul, dark-throated thrush etc.
Drive to Pangot (2 hours) in the evening. Overnight at Jungle Lore.
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| Day 8,9 |
Pangot, Meals: breakfast.
Whole day bird watching at Pangot. The best places for birding are Cheena Peak, Kilbury & Timla Pani. We drive through the dense forest encompassing Cheena Peak
through the Snow View Point and Kilbury. Discover number of Himalayan species on the way such as spotted & slaty-backed forktail, raven, lammergeier, Himalayan
griffon, blue winged minla, rufous bellied
woodpecker, niltava, khaleej pheasant and thrushes etc. More
than 200 species have been recorded at Pangot and surrounding areas. The numerous
perennial & seasonal creeks are home to an amazing variety of flora and fauna
including hare, fox, leopard, barking deer, yellow-throated martin, Himalayan palm civet, goral,
sambhar etc.
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| Day 10 |
Pangot, Meals: breakfast.
Another day of birding at Pangot village, Baggar and Gughu Khan. These walks can
be very rewarding. Overnight stay at the lodge. One can see Koklass pheasant, Cheer pheasant, crested serpent-eagle,
mountain hawk-eagle, Woodpeckers etc. Thrushes such as dark-throated, mistle, sStriated Prinia, Tickell’s Leaf-Warbler, Greenish, Golden-spectacled,
Grey-hooded.warbler. Watch yellow browed tit, ultramarine, green backed tit, rusty-tailed flycatcher, coal tit, verditer,
brown thorated thrush, niltava; orange-flanked bush robin, Sibia, Eurasian jay, white capped water redstart, black headed jay, blue-capped
redstart. Laughing thrushes - chestnut crowned laughing thrush, white-throated laughing, fire tailed sunbird, white headed laughing thrush, streaked laughing thrush
chestnut headed thrush, streaked laughing thrushetc.
Search for black throated accentors, Upland pipit, blue-winged minla, yuhinas etc.
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| Day 11 |
Mongoli Valley-Corbett NP, Meals: breakfast, dinner.
Drive to Bajun and go for trekking in Mongoli Valley. Move to Corbett National
Park from Mongoli stopping en route to look for brown dipper, Ibisbill. Overnight stay
in a cottage at Corbett Tiger Camp in the forests.. One can see woodpeckers such as greater yellownape,
scaly-breasted, speckled piculet etc. Large flocks of plum headed parakeet, slaty-headed parakeets, red breasted parakeet, numerous
spotted and oriental turtle doves, pied bush chat, blue throat, russet sparrow; Indian cuckoo resident,
Oriental cuckoo, Large-hawk cuckoo and Eurasian cuckoos migratory. Watch white tailed ruby throat, ros eringed parakeet, Large-billed crow, rufous treepie, grey treepie, Eurasian and Black-headed
jay, black headed oriole, velvet fronted nutchat, maroon oriole, rufous-naped tit, white tailed nuthatch,
woodpeckers, yellow-browed tit, green-backed tit, ashy bulbul,. chestnut bellied nuthatch, niltava, Asian paradise flycatcher and bar-tailed tree creeper.
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| Day 12 |
Dhikala Forest accommodation (Corbett National Park)
Early morning and post lunch visit to the grass lands & forest areas for birding. Spen the night a Dhikala Forest Lodge. Birding along Ramganga River is rewarding for water birds such as Ducks, teals, river lapwing, Osprey, Pallas Fish Eagle, mergansers and other riverine birds. While at Dhikla lodge one can see many avian species near the Dhikala grasslands and neghboring forests. A good pair of binocs and spotting scope will yield Clollared Faconet, Iora, Common Chiff Chaf, Yellow eyed babbler, red whiskered bulbul, White cheeked bulbul and Black Necked Stork to metion few. |
| Day 13 |
Corbett National Park, Meals: breakfast & dinner.
Take early morning tamed elephant ride move through extensive and tall grasslands and dense forest canopies. This is the best
mode of transport for wildlife watching. Drive to Tiger Camp for dinner. Overnight stay. Some of the popular birding takes place in forests of Dhikala, Sambhar Road and Khinanauli near the rest house. One expects to see streak throated woodpecker, Himalayan wood pecker, great slaty woodpecker,
oriental pied hornbill, Pallas fisf eagle, grey headed fish eagle, blue throated barbet, white rumped shama, coppersmith barbet, etc.
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| Day 14 |
Corbett National Park-Delhi, Meals: breakfast.
Early morning bird watching at Kumeria keep a look out for wild elephants. Visit Garjia temple on Ramganga for Ibisbill. At noon drive to Delhi for over night stay. One
can look for Common green magpie, white rumped shama, black bulbul, twany owl, white eared bulbul, ashy bulbul, brown fish owl, little & spotted
forktail, tesia, yellow bellied fantail, Great Himalyan Kingfisher and white browed fantail, long billed thrush, snowy browed flycatcher, black winged
cuckoo shrike, purple heraon, striated heron, red breasted parakeet, scarlet minivet, verditor flycatcher,
long-tailed minivet, brown dipper, black rumped flame back, white naped wood pecker etc.
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| Day 15 |
New Delhi-onward journey, Meals: breakfast.
Transfer to the airport to connect flight to the next destination.
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