- Abbott's Babbler
- Aberrant Bush-warbler
- Alpine Accentor
- Alpine Swift
- American Pipit
- Ashy Bulbul
- Ashy Prinia
- Ashy Wood-pigeon
- Ashy Woodswallow
- Ashy-crowned Sparrow-lark
- Ashy-throated Warbler
- Asian Barred Owlet
- Asian Brown Flycatcher
- Asian Emerald Cuckoo
- Asian Palm-swift
- Asian Stubtail
- Baer's Pochard
- Baikal Teal
- Banded Bay Cuckoo
- Bar-headed Goose
- Bar-tailed Treecreeper
- Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
- Barred Buttonquail
- Barred Cuckoo-dove
- Bay Woodpecker
- Bay-backed Shrike
- Baya Weaver
- Bean Goose
- Beautiful Rosefinch
- Bengal Florican
- Besra
- Black Baza
- Black Bittern
- Black Bulbul
- Black Eagle
- Black Francolin
- Black Stork
- Black-and-yellow Grosbeak
- Black-backed Forktail
- Black-backed Kingfisher
- Black-bellied Sandgrouse
- Black-bellied Tern
- Black-breasted Parrotbill
- Black-breasted Weaver
- Black-browed Reed-warbler
- Black-browed Tit
- Black-capped Kingfisher
- Black-chinned Babbler
- Black-chinned Yuhina
- Black-crested Bulbul
- Black-crested Tit
- Black-eared Shrike-babbler
- Black-faced Bunting
- Black-faced Laughingthrush
- Black-faced Warbler
- Black-headed Bunting
- Black-headed Cuckooshrike
- Black-headed Ibis
- Black-headed Jay
- Black-headed Mountain-finch
- Black-headed Shrike-babbler
- Black-hooded Oriole
- Black-lored Tit
- Black-naped Monarch
- Black-naped Oriole
- Black-necked Crane
- Black-necked Stork
- Black-rumped Flameback
- Black-tailed Crake
- Black-throated Accentor
- Black-throated Parrotbill
- Black-throated Sunbird
- Black-throated Tit
- Black-winged Cuckooshrike
- Black-winged Kite
- Black-winged Snowfinch
- Blackbird
- Blood Pheasant
- Blossom-headed Parakeet
- Blue Magpie
- Blue Whistling-thrush
- Blue-bearded Bee-eater
- Blue-breasted Quail
- Blue-capped Redstart
- Blue-capped Rock-thrush
- Blue-eared Barbet
- Blue-eared Kingfisher
- Blue-fronted Redstart
- Blue-fronted Robin
- Blue-naped Pitta
- Blue-tailed Bee-eater
- Blue-throated Barbet
- Blue-throated Flycatcher
- Blue-winged Laughingthrush
- Blue-winged Minla
- Blunt-winged Warbler
- Blyth's Kingfisher
- Blyth's Pipit
- Blyth's Reed-warbler
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Booted Eagle
- Booted Warbler
- Brambling
- Bristled Grassbird
- Broad-billed Warbler
- Brown Accentor
- Brown Bullfinch
- Brown Crake
- Brown Dipper
- Brown Fish-owl
- Brown Hawk-owl
- Brown Parrotbill
- Brown Wood-owl
- Brown-fronted Woodpecker
- Brown-headed Barbet
- Brown-headed Gull
- Brown-throated Treecreeper
- Brownish-flanked Bush-warbler
- Buff-barred Warbler
- Buff-throated Warbler
- Changeable Hawk-eagle
- Cheer Pheasant
- Chestnut Bunting
- Chestnut Munia
- Chestnut Thrush
- Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch
- Chestnut-bellied Rock-thrush
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Chestnut-breasted Bunting
- Chestnut-capped Babbler
- Chestnut-crowned Bush-warbler
- Chestnut-crowned Laughingthrush
- Chestnut-crowned Warbler
- Chestnut-eared Bunting
- Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
- Chestnut-headed Tesia
- Chestnut-shouldered Petronia
- Chestnut-tailed Minla
- Chestnut-tailed Starling
- Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
- Chinese Bush-warbler
- Cinereous Vulture
- Cinnamon Bittern
- Clamorous Reed-warbler
- Coal Tit
- Collared Falconet
- Collared Grosbeak
- Collared Owlet
- Collared Pratincole
- Collared Scops-owl
- Collared Treepie
- Comb Duck
- Common Babbler
- Common Buzzard
- Common Crane
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grasshopper-warbler
- Common Hawk-cuckoo
- Common Iora
- Common Merganser
- Common Pochard
- Common Quail
- Common Raven
- Common Rosefinch
- Common Scops-owl
- Common Shelduck
- Common Swift
- Common Tailorbird
- Common Tern
- Common Wood-pigeon
- Common Woodshrike
- Coppersmith Barbet
- Coral-billed Scimitar-babbler
- Cotton Pygmy-goose
- Crested Bunting
- Crested Goshawk
- Crested Kingfisher
- Crested Serpent-eagle
- Crested Treeswift
- Crimson Rosefinch
- Crimson Sunbird
- Crimson-breasted Woodpecker
- Crimson-browed Finch
- Crow-billed Drongo
- Cutia
- Darjeeling Woodpecker
- Dark-breasted Rosefinch
- Dark-rumped Rosefinch
- Dark-rumped Swift
- Dark-sided Flycatcher
- Dark-sided Thrush
- Daurian Jackdaw
- Demoiselle Crane
- Drongo Cuckoo
- Dusky Eagle-owl
- Dusky Thrush
- Dusky Warbler
- Eared Grebe
- Eastern Grass-owl
- Eastern Imperial Eagle
- Eurasian Chaffinch
- Eurasian Jackdaw
- Eurasian Jay
- Eurasian Linnet
- Eurasian Scaly Thrush
- Eurasian Siskin
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Eurasian Thick-knee
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Treecreeper
- Eurasian Woodcock
- Eurasian Wryneck
- European Goldfinch
- Eyebrowed Thrush
- Falcated Duck
- Ferruginous Duck
- Ferruginous Flycatcher
- Fire-breasted Flowerpecker
- Fire-capped Tit
- Fire-fronted Serin
- Fire-tailed Myzornis
- Fire-tailed Sunbird
- Flores Hawk-eagle
- Forest Wagtail
- Fork-tailed Swift
- Fulvous Parrotbill
- Fulvous Whistling-duck
- Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker
- Godlewski's Bunting
- Gold-billed Magpie
- Gold-naped Finch
- Goldcrest
- Golden Babbler
- Golden Bush-robin
- Golden-breasted Fulvetta
- Golden-fronted Leafbird
- Golden-headed Cisticola
- Golden-throated Barbet
- Gould's Shortwing
- Gould's Sunbird
- Grandala
- Great Barbet
- Great Bittern
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Grey Shrike
- Great Hornbill
- Great Indian Bustard
- Great Parrotbill
- Great Reed-warbler
- Great Rosefinch
- Great Slaty Woodpecker
- Great Thick-knee
- Great Tit
- Great White Pelican
- Greater Adjutant
- Greater Flameback
- Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush
- Greater Painted-snipe
- Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
- Greater Scaup
- Greater Short-toed Lark
- Greater Yellownape
- Green Cochoa
- Green Imperial-pigeon
- Green Magpie
- Green Shrike-babbler
- Green-backed Tit
- Green-billed Malkoha
- Green-crowned Warbler
- Green-tailed Sunbird
- Greenish Warbler
- Grey Bushchat
- Grey Nightjar
- Grey Treepie
- Grey-backed Shrike
- Grey-bellied Tesia
- Grey-breasted Prinia
- Grey-capped Woodpecker
- Grey-cheeked Warbler
- Grey-chinned Minivet
- Grey-crowned Prinia
- Grey-faced Woodpecker
- Grey-headed Bullfinch
- Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher
- Grey-headed Fish Eagle
- Grey-headed Lapwing
- Grey-headed Parakeet
- Grey-headed Parrotbill
- Grey-sided Bush-warbler
- Grey-sided Laughingthrush
- Grey-throated Babbler
- Grey-winged Blackbird
- Griffon Vulture
- Hair-crested Drongo
- Harlequin Duck
- Herring Gull
- Hill Blue-flycatcher
- Hill Myna
- Hill Partridge
- Hill Pigeon
- Hill Prinia
- Himalayan Bulbul
- Himalayan Cuckoo
- Himalayan Flameback
- Himalayan Griffon Vulture
- Himalayan Monal
- Himalayan Snowcock
- Himalayan Swiftlet
- Himalayan Woodpecker
- Hoary-throated Barwing
- Hodgson's Hawk-cuckoo
- Hodgson's Redstart
- Hooded Pitta
- Horned Lark
- House Swift
- Hume's Lark
- Hume's Leaf-warbler
- Ibisbill
- Indian Blue Robin
- Indian Chat
- Indian Courser
- Indian Cuckoo
- Indian Grey Hornbill
- Indian Nightjar
- Indian Short-toed Lark
- Indian Skimmer
- Indian Spotted Eagle
- Indian Vulture
- Indian White-rumped Vulture
- Inornate Warbler
- Intermediate Egret
- Jack Snipe
- Jerdon's Babbler
- Jerdon's Baza
- Jerdon's Bushchat
- Jungle Babbler
- Jungle Bush-quail
- Jungle Owlet
- Jungle Prinia
- Kalij Pheasant
- Kashmir Flycatcher
- Kashmir Nuthatch
- Koklass Pheasant
- Laggar Falcon
- Lammergeier
- Lanceolated Warbler
- Large Cuckooshrike
- Large Grey Babbler
- Large Hawk-cuckoo
- Large Niltava
- Large Woodshrike
- Large-billed Crow
- Large-billed Leaf-warbler
- Large-tailed Nightjar
- Lemon-rumped Warbler
- Lesser Adjutant
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Coucal
- Lesser Cuckoo
- Lesser Fish-eagle
- Lesser Florican
- Lesser Kestrel
- Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush
- Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo
- Lesser Shortwing
- Lesser Spotted Eagle
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Lesser Yellownape
- Lineated Barbet
- Little Bittern
- Little Bunting
- Little Forktail
- Little Pied Flycatcher
- Little Spiderhunter
- Little Swift
- Long-billed Plover
- Long-billed Thrush
- Long-billed Wren-babbler
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Broadbill
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Minivet
- Long-tailed Shrike
- Long-tailed Sibia
- Long-tailed Thrush
- Long-toed Stint
- Madagascar Coucal
- Malabar Pied Hornbill
- Malaysian Night-heron
- Mandarin Duck
- Maroon Oriole
- Maroon-backed Accentor
- Merlin
- Mew Gull
- Mistle Thrush
- Mongolian Finch
- Mountain Bulbul
- Mountain Chiffchaff
- Mountain Hawk-eagle
- Mountain Imperial-pigeon
- Mountain Scops-owl
- Mountain Tailorbird
- Nepal Fulvetta
- Nepal House-martin
- Nepal Wren-babbler
- Northern Goshawk
- Northern Harrier
- Northern House-martin
- Northern Lapwing
- Olive Bulbul
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Orange-bellied Leafbird
- Orange-breasted Green-pigeon
- Orange-flanked Bush-robin
- Orange-headed Thrush
- Oriental Bay-owl
- Oriental Cuckoo
- Oriental Hobby
- Oriental Honey-buzzard
- Oriental Pied Hornbill
- Oriental Pratincole
- Oriental Scops-owl
- Oriental Skylark
- Oriental Turtle-dove
- Oriental White-eye
- Paddyfield Warbler
- Painted Sandgrouse
- Pale Blue-flycatcher
- Pale-billed Flowerpecker
- Pale-chinned Blue-flycatcher
- Pale-footed Bush-warbler
- Pale-headed Woodpecker
- Pale-rumped Warbler
- Pallas's Bunting
- Pallas's Fish-eagle
- Pallas's Grasshopper-warbler
- Pheasant-tailed Jacana
- Pied Bushchat
- Pied Harrier
- Pied Thrush
- Pin-tailed Green-pigeon
- Pine Bunting
- Pink-browed Rosefinch
- Pintail
- Pintail Snipe
- Plain Flowerpecker
- Plain Martin
- Plain Mountain-finch
- Plain Prinia
- Plain-backed Snowfinch
- Plain-backed Thrush
- Plaintive Cuckoo
- Plum-headed Parakeet
- Plumbeous Water-redstart
- Pompadour Green-pigeon
- Puff-throated Babbler
- Purple Cochoa
- Purple Heron
- Pygmy Blue-flycatcher
- Pygmy Wren-babbler
- Radde's Warbler
- Rain Quail
- Red Collared-dove
- Red Crossbill
- Red Kite
- Red Munia
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Chough
- Red-billed Leiothrix
- Red-breasted Flycatcher
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Parakeet
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-faced Liocichla
- Red-fronted Rosefinch
- Red-headed Bullfinch
- Red-headed Bunting
- Red-headed Trogon
- Red-headed Vulture
- Red-naped Ibis
- Red-necked Falcon
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Red-tailed Minla
- Red-Throated Loon
- Reed Bunting
- River Lapwing
- Robin Accentor
- Rock Bunting
- Rock Eagle-owl
- Rosy Minivet
- Rosy Pipit
- Ruby-cheeked Sunbird
- Ruddy Kingfisher
- Ruddy-breasted Crake
- Rufescent Prinia
- Rufous Sibia
- Rufous Treepie
- Rufous Woodpecker
- Rufous-backed Redstart
- Rufous-backed Sibia
- Rufous-bellied Eagle
- Rufous-bellied Niltava
- Rufous-bellied Woodpecker
- Rufous-breasted Accentor
- Rufous-breasted Bush-robin
- Rufous-capped Babbler
- Rufous-chinned Laughingthrush
- Rufous-faced Warbler
- Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher
- Rufous-headed Parrotbill
- Rufous-necked Hornbill
- Rufous-necked Laughingthrush
- Rufous-necked Snowfinch
- Rufous-rumped Grassbird
- Rufous-streaked Accentor
- Rufous-tailed Shrike
- Rufous-throated Partridge
- Rufous-throated Wren-babbler
- Rufous-vented Prinia
- Rufous-vented Tit
- Rufous-vented Yuhina
- Rufous-winged Fulvetta
- Rufous-winged Lark
- Russet Bush-warbler
- Russet Sparrow
- Rustic Bunting
- Rusty-cheeked Scimitar-babbler
- Rusty-flanked Treecreeper
- Rusty-fronted Barwing
- Rusty-tailed Flycatcher
- Saker Falcon
- Sand Martin
- Sapphire Flycatcher
- Sarus Crane
- Satyr Tragopan
- Savanna Nightjar
- Scaly Laughingthrush
- Scaly-bellied Woodpecker
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Scaly-breasted Wren-babbler
- Scarlet Finch
- Scarlet Minivet
- Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
- Short-billed Minivet
- Siberian Blue Robin
- Siberian Rubythroat
- Siberian Stonechat
- Silver-backed Needletail
- Silver-breasted Broadbill
- Silver-eared Mesia
- Sirkeer Malkoha
- Slaty-backed Flycatcher
- Slaty-backed Forktail
- Slaty-bellied Tesia
- Slaty-blue Flycatcher
- Slaty-breasted Rail
- Slaty-headed Parakeet
- Slaty-legged Crake
- Slender-billed Babbler
- Slender-billed Oriole
- Slender-billed Scimitar-babbler
- Slender-billed Vulture
- Small Buttonquail
- Small Minivet
- Small Niltava
- Small Pratincole
- Smew
- Smoky Warbler
- Snow Partridge
- Snow Pigeon
- Snowy-browed Flycatcher
- Solitary Snipe
- Southern Blyth’s Leaf-warbler
- Spanish Sparrow
- Speckled Piculet
- Speckled Wood-pigeon
- Spectacled Finch
- Spiny Babbler
- Spot-bellied Eagle-owl
- Spot-billed Duck
- Spot-billed Pelican
- Spot-breasted Scimitar-babbler
- Spot-winged Grosbeak
- Spot-winged Rosefinch
- Spot-winged Starling
- Spotted Bush-warbler
- Spotted Crake
- Spotted Forktail
- Spotted Laughingthrush
- Spotted Nutcracker
- Spotted Owlet
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Wren-babbler
- Streak-breasted Scimitar-babbler
- Streak-throated Swallow
- Streak-throated Woodpecker
- Streaked Laughingthrush
- Streaked Rosefinch
- Streaked Spiderhunter
- Streaked Weaver
- Striated Babbler
- Striated Bulbul
- Striated Grassbird
- Striated Laughingthrush
- Striated Prinia
- Stripe-throated Yuhina
- Striped Tit-babbler
- Sulphur-bellied Warbler
- Sultan Tit
- Sunda Woodpecker
- Swamp Francolin
- Swinhoe's Snipe
- Sykes's Nightjar
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny Fish-owl
- Tawny Owl
- Tawny-bellied Babbler
- Thick-billed Flowerpecker
- Thick-billed Green-pigeon
- Thick-billed Warbler
- Three-banded Rosefinch
- Tibetan Ground-tit
- Tibetan Lark
- Tibetan Partridge
- Tibetan Sandgrouse
- Tibetan Serin
- Tibetan Snowcock
- Tickell's Blue-flycatcher
- Tickell's Leaf-warbler
- Tickell's Thrush
- Tricoloured Munia
- Tufted Duck
- Tundra Swan
- Twite
- Tytler's Leaf-warbler
- Ultramarine Flycatcher
- Upland Buzzard
- Upland Pipit
- Variegated Laughingthrush
- Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
- Verditer Flycatcher
- Vernal Hanging-parrot
- Vinaceous Rosefinch
- Wallcreeper
- Water Rail
- Watercock
- Wedge-tailed Green-pigeon
- Western Crowned Warbler
- Western Tragopan
- Whiskered Yuhina
- Whistler’s Warbler
- White-backed Thrush
- White-bellied Drongo
- White-bellied Heron
- White-bellied Redstart
- White-bellied Yuhina
- White-browed Bush-robin
- White-browed Fantail
- White-browed Fulvetta
- White-browed Piculet
- White-browed Rosefinch
- White-browed Scimitar-babbler
- White-browed Shortwing
- White-browed Shrike-babbler
- White-browed Tit-warbler
- White-capped Water-redstart
- White-cheeked Nuthatch
- White-collared Blackbird
- White-crested Laughingthrush
- White-eyed Buzzard
- White-faced Heron
- White-gorgeted Flycatcher
- White-hooded Babbler
- White-naped Woodpecker
- White-naped Yuhina
- White-rumped Munia
- White-rumped Shama
- White-rumped Snowfinch
- White-rumped Spinetail
- White-spectacled Warbler
- White-tailed Eagle
- White-tailed Nuthatch
- White-tailed Robin
- White-tailed Rubythroat
- White-tailed Stonechat
- White-throated Bulbul
- White-throated Bushchat
- White-throated Dipper
- White-throated Fantail
- White-throated Laughingthrush
- White-throated Needletail
- White-throated Redstart
- White-throated Tit
- White-winged Grosbeak
- White-winged Redstart
- White-winged Tern
- Whooper Swan
- Winter Wren
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Wood Snipe
- Yellow Bittern
- Yellow Weaver
- Yellow-bellied Fantail
- Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker
- Yellow-bellied Prinia
- Yellow-bellied Warbler
- Yellow-billed Chough
- Yellow-breasted Bunting
- Yellow-breasted Greenfinch
- Yellow-browed Tit
- Yellow-cheeked Tit
- Yellow-crowned Woodpecker
- Yellow-eyed Babbler
- Yellow-footed Green-pigeon
- Yellow-legged Buttonquail
- Yellow-rumped Honeyguide
- Yellow-throated Fulvetta
- Yellow-vented Flowerpecker
- Yellow-vented Warbler
- Yellow-wattled Lapwing
- Yellowhammer
- Yellowish-bellied Bush-warbler
- Zitting Cisticola
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Nepal Lifer List
The lifer list for Nepal:-
Monday, January 3, 2011
Katmandu I will be soon landing you.
Planning a trip to Nepal by mid Feb (dates yet to be finalized). I have already visited Nepal for two days. I didn’t do much birding. This time its nothing but pure birding.
I would be happy I can photograph around 180 new species in 10 days time. I am strictly planning the trip and going through a lot websites to find the right places. I am also speaking to people from Nepal and people from around the world who has visited Nepal for birding. So far the my itinerary includes the following locations.
Places to visit
Koshi Tappu National Park
Located roughly 200 km from Katmandu, Koshi Tappu National Park is one the best places in Nepal for bird watching. Koshi Tappu National Park has so far recorded around 400 species of birds.
I am planning to stay for three days in Koshi Tappu and expects addition of around 100 species to my list during this stay. I need to find a local guide and also need to make the
target list for this site.
target list for this site.
Chitwan National Park
Located roughly 100km from Kathmandu, Chitwan National Park boasts of having around 450 species of birds.
Again planning a three day stay at Chitwan and expects another 50 or so species from Chitwan. Need to find a local guide and also make the target list for Chitwan.
Phulchowki
Phulchowki is located around 18km from Kathmandu and is 2800m high from Sea level. Regular species recorded are:-
- Besra
- Black Eagle
- Mountain Hawk-Eagle
- Kalij Pheasant
- Common Hill Partridge
- Ashy Woodpigeon
- Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon
- Mountain Scops Owl
- Collared Owlet
- Golden-throated Barbet
- Speckled Piculet
- Crimson-breasted Pied Woodpecker
- Rufous-bellied Pied Woodpecker
- Grey-chinned Minivet
- Striated Bulbul
- Orange-bellied Leafbird
- Spotted Forktail
- Chestnut-headed Tesia
- Grey-bellied Tesia
- Chestnut-crowned Warbler
- Black faced Warblers
- Rufous-bellied Niltava
- Lesser Scaly-breasted Wren Babbler
- Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babbler
- Grey-throated Babbler
- Spiny Babblers
- White-crested Laughing thrush
- Striated Laughing thrush
- Rufous-chinned Laughing thrush
- Grey-sided Laughing Thrush
- Red-billed Leiothrix
- Cuttia
- White-browed Green Shrike-Babbler
- Black-eared Shrike-Babbler
- Hoary Barwing
- Blue-winged Minla
- Nepal Fulvetta
- Yellow-browed Tit
- Brown-throated Treecreeper
- Black-throated Sunbird
- Maroon Oriole
- Eurasian Jay
- Lancelated Jay
- Red-billed Blue Magpie
- BBrown Bullfinch
Pokhara
- Besra
- Red-thighed Falconet
- Pied Harrier
- Eurasian Griffon Vulture
- Red-headed Vulture
- Eurasian Black Vulture
- Kalij Pheasant
- Black-backed Forktail
- Puff-throated Babbler
- White-crested Laughing Thrush
- Lesser Necklaced Laughing Thrush
- Rufous-chinned Laughing Thrush
- Red-billed Leiothrix
- Crimson Sunbird
- Maroon Oriole
- Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo
- Red-billed and Green Magpie
- Long-tailed Mountain Thrush
- Chestnut-headed Tesia
- Grey-bellied Tesia
- Chestnut-crowned Warbler
- Small Niltava
- Rufous-bellied Niltava
- Snowy-brown Flycatcher
- Long-tailed Broadbill
- Pale Blue Flycatcher
- White-tailed Robin
- Spiny Babbler
- White-browed Scimitar-Babbler
- Striated Munia
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Thick-billed Warbler
2011 Birding Trips (Plan)
In 2011 I need to meet my 2010 target which I missed due to some personal issues. But I have changes to my plan. I am not going to India this year. Instead, I am planning to visit the following countries:
1. Malaysia
2. Thailand
3. Sri Lanka
4. Nepal
5. Butan
I am planning a week in each country except Nepal where I am planning 10 days. I am still doing the investiagation about the the places to go in each country and I think I will start with Nepal first. I am expecting around 500 species of birds from these trips which will make my total number of species photographed into four digits.
I started collecting information about Nepal and looks to be a very good especially Chitwan National Park. There has been a report where 200+ species were recorded in a two week trip at Chitwan. I am planning to stay there for three days and expecting around 100 species. Phulchowki near Katmandu is also a good place where another 50 or more can be seen on 3 to 4 days time. A total of 200 new species are expected in 10 days during my trip to Nepal.
The main object of the trip to Nepal is to record the Partridges, Snowcocks, Francolins and Pheasants. They are one of the most beautiful birds in the world.
Some of the above birds are not easy to see. And some of them are rare in Nepal. Further studies on the habitat and locations in Nepal is required before I can finalize my trip.
The required list for Nepal can grow dramatically as I am just getting used to the birds of Nepal.
I am also planning a week in Bhutan and would like to go there directly from Nepal. Very little is known when it comes to Birds of Bhutan or Birding in Bhutan. Most of the tour operators in Bhutan are either Indian based companies or Nepal based companies. Local birders are very less or they details on the internet is very rare.
Regarding Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand needs a lot of studies. I have already ordered the field guides for these countries and are expecting them very soon. Once the field guides are received, I can start my study on the list of birds that I expect in each country and then find the right places for them. I am expecting around 300+ species in three weeks from this three countries.
One another place I want to visit is the Bharatpur in India. But it depends on my anual leave days left after these trips. I have already planned 30 out of my 42 days anual leave.
The total target of 500+ species (to make my World list into four digits) can be achieved quite easily, Insha Allah, if I can make the above trips.
Another major target for this year is the 300 species in UAE. I have already photographed around 250 species in UAE. Hope this year bring the rest 50 species.
(This post needs further modifciations)
Saturday, January 1, 2011
"Happy New Year" Says Three Barn Owls
Day Out: 1st Jan, 2011
Yes, we were greeted by three Barn Owls today at Watbah around 12:30AM (That is just after the New Year break! Midnight). Myself and Salam (Mama) joined Khalifa to look for a Barn Owl at Al Watbah Camel Racetrack. The result was overwhelming. Three Barn Owls. Probably one juvenile and two adults.
I also tried Khalifa's flash unit. Its amazing. He has got some awesome shots using his flash unit. Even I got one shot but it has red-eye. But who can complain? Just watching them itself is a amazing.
Its a great way to celebrate new year. Simply amazing.
Barn Owl
Happy New Year 2011.
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