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…
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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 Madhya 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…
Birds expected to be seen in Udaipur in the month of November
With goo rains in Udaipur this year 2014, almost all lakes in and around are full of water and we expect that all migratory birds would visit Mewar region. Though one important birding site, Menar did not get enough water this year, but still it seems to have already started attracting many migratory birds. Recently,…
Birding at Tal Chhapar, Rajasthan
Tal Chhapar is a famous birding destination in Rajasthan, specially for raptors. We, Nirmal Solanki, Dr. Durgesh Sharma, Vijendra Prakash Parmar and me, went to Tal Chhapar from Udaipur on 4 Oct 2014. It took long time for us to reach there as we drove down in the afternoon from Udaipur. How to reach Tal…
Udaipur Birding Trip Report – 6th Sep 2014
Indibirding Team, Mr. Vijendra went for a birding trip with Mr. Jonathan Brown and his wife on 6th September 2014 in and around Udaipur city to its various birding spots. Vijendra went to Ubheshwer ji in the morning at 6AM, then Badi Lake and then Sajjangarh Wildlife Sanctuary. It was half day tour, specially arranged…