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Birding Gir National Park, India

10,000 Birds

This park protects the largest remaining tract of dry deciduous forest in the west of India, offering visitors 37 species of reptiles, 38 species of mammals and, not to be forgotten – almost 300 bird species. while herbivores are represented by Chital and Sambar (above) deer, Wild Boar , Nilgai antelope, etc.

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Birding Beljarica in August

10,000 Birds

August is possibly the best month there, because you gradually observe the rise and fall of numbers of various migrating species, which use it as a stopover site to fatten up ahead of the long hauls further south. On several occasions, early in the morning a Brown Hare would greet me, and once a Wild Boar waved me goodbye.

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The Lion Forest of India

10,000 Birds

This park protects the largest remaining tract of dry deciduous forest in the west of India, offering visitors 37 species of reptiles, 38 species of mammals and, not to be forgotten – almost 300 bird species. while herbivores are represented by Chital (above) and Sambar deer, Wild Boar, Nilgai antelope, etc.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

10,000 Birds

On her own, two months ago, she took down a big, old and experienced Indian Boar , who already had some old tiger claw scars. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. Telia watches him in half-amusement, then raises and gives a low, bull-like roar, provoking the lapwings to an excited screech, makes a few steps and lies down.

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Birding the Little Rann of Kutch

10,000 Birds

Back on dirt tracks by a Desert Wheatear decorated bush (bellow), to spot five or six Wild boars disappearing among the bushes. They belong to the same species like those found back in Europe, Sus scrofa – which inhabits a belt stretching from northern Africa and Europe all the way to Indonesia, but a different subspecies, S.s.

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