Birding or Bird Watching is an interesting hobby which require a person to travel to distant places, walk in muds, sands and forces one to get up early in the morning! India is blessed with unique bio-diversity where its western part is desert land. Rajasthan is a state which has big National Park without any…
Birding in Desert of India – Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
Birding in Udaipur during Summer
Udaipur is known as lake city in and situated in the Aravali mountain range at the height of approx 1500 feet. Rajasthan state is known to be desert state through out India as well as abroad. But, those who visit Udaipur, they might be pleasantly surprised to find Udaipur all greens! Even during peak of…
Birding at Menar in 2017
We visited Menar, a birding destination in Udaipur, Rajasthan on 15th Jan 2017 with my friends from USA, Tom Piwowarski and his wife, Roselie, my firends Vijendra, Varun and Nirmal in the morning at 6:30AM. We first went to Mangalwar to check out how the wetlands are doing there and if many birds have arrived!…
Birding in City Areas
On 4th Feb 2016, Indibirding.com team went out for educational birding tour around Udaipur city with Lars Johansson, Special Manager, Ramboll and four other students of Department of Architecture School of Design and Environment National Singapore University. It was really very educating experience and it has given us many valuable inputs as well as whole…
Birding at Jawai Dam, Pali District in Rajasthan
Jawai Dam or known as Jawai bandh locally, is approximately 130KM from Udaipur which lies on way to Mount Abu, in Pali district. It is picaresque dam on river Jawai, which is a tributary to river Luni. Its popularly known among wildlife enthusiast as destination for spotting Indian leopard or Panther easily. But this is…
Birding at Shokaliya, Ajmer for Lesser Florican
Lesser Florican is a beautiful bird, endemic to India and classified as endangered species in IUCN list. This bird can be sighted at Shokaliya from July to September in Shokaliya grassland near Ajmer, Rajasthan. Apart from Shokaliya, Lesser Florican can also be seen in Madha Pradesh, near Ratlam. We, Mr. Sharad Agrawal, Vijendra Prakash Parmar…
Birding at Desert National Park, Rajasthan
IndiBirding Team, Vijendra Prakash Parmar, Varun Lunia, Hitesh Motwani and Devershi Vyas visited Desert National Park, Jaisalmer on on 24-25-26 Jan 2015. Jaisalmer has good train connectivity from major metro cities in India as well as other state capitals. This is one place where one can see elusive and rare Great Indian Bustard known as…
Birding at Pobitora WLS near Guwahati, Assam
I went to Pobitora Wild Life Sanctuary near Guwahati on 14 December 2014 with Deepak Mani Tripathi, Pranab Doley, Boris Doley and Hari Prasad, all avid birder and photographer. We started at around 8AM from Guwahati due to thick fog in the morning and had very poor light throughout the day. The Sun never shone…
Top 3 reasons to visit Udaipur for Birding in December
Without wasting any time, let me list the three reasons 1. Udaipur is a Holiday Destination for family Udaipur, City of Lakes, in Mewar region of Rajasthan is not just a ‘birding destination’, but also a complete holiday destination for family. It has everything one needs to have any type of holiday with family, be…
IndiBirding in News for spotting Verditer Flycatcher and Leucistic Coot
Indbirding Team Members, Vijendra Prakash Parmar, Uttam Pegu, Dr. Durgesh Sharma, and Anil Rodgers spotted a rare Leucistic Coot in Lake Pichola in Udaipur, Rajasthan recently during their birding trail on 25th October 2014. Luecistic Coot is very uncommon and it was first sighting in Rajasthan, as confirmed by eminent wild life expert Dr. Satish…