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…
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…
Great Indian Bustard (GIB), known as Godawan in Rajasthan in its local language, is critically endangered species found in Desert National Park in Rajasthan near Jaisalmer. Recently, it is reported that, After a gap of nearly six years, a Great Indian Bustard egg hatched in Desert National Park area with forest officials succeeding in protecting…
The state bird and critically endangered Great Indian Bustard has found a new habitat. A flock of 24 GIBs was recently spotted in the grasslands of Salkha area, 45 km from Jaisalmer district. Of them, 21 were males and three females. This is a great news for Bird lovers all around the world! Population of…
Great Indian Bustard ( GIB ) is a critically endangered species whose total count is estimated to be roughly 400 birds. GIB is also state bird of Rajasthan. In recent years, its count has gone down drastically due to habitat loss. But still poaching of GIB has not stopped. What could be a good news…
