10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2023
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. A low branch is decorated by a Green Bee-eater and a tree top above it holds several Cattle Egrets. Manoj really knows his owls.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2016
India was not on my list of places to go in 2016. So, I birded India, land of Indian Peafowl , Saag Paneer (my favorite Indian dish) and Tigers. I was waiting at the entrance gate for everyone in our group to gather, when I remembered that someone had told me about nesting owls at the Taj. It was a big owl.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2013
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. A low branch is decorated by a Green Bee-eater (above) and a tree top above it holds several Cattle Egrets.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2022
There are much better metaphors for mind-body dualism than owls with fake eyes on the backside of their head. Black Kite (Delhi, India). Black-rumped Flameback (Sultanpur, India). Green Bee-eater (Delhi, India). Cattle Egret (Nanhui, China). Bela Lugosi is dead and no longer relevant. Barn Swallow (Nanhui, China).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2015
“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue , a registered non-profit in the Chawri Bazar area of Old Delhi. When a tree filled with nestling Cattle Egrets collapsed, 60 orphans took up temporary residence in the house.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
we’re already in an open 4×4 heading for the salt pans of the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, India. Continuing by the yellow sandstone Hindu temple under construction, than by the large heaps of salt (two thirds of all the salt used in India comes from here) and finally entering the Kutch Biosphere Reserve. Trips desert India'
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets.
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