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. The largest reptile is the Indian Mugger Crocodile.

India 147

India Lions Boars Mammals 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

All the tracks onto the station property were underwater and all of the Brahman Cattle have moved to the highest ground that they can find. In fact it is not just the cattle, but all of the creatures have moved into bushes and trees.

Barn Owls 162

Barn Owls Seals Birds Cattle 162

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. The largest reptile is the Indian Mugger Crocodile. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea.

Lions 218

Lions India Mammals Boars 218

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

But you haven’t come here to read my writing about mammals or reptiles, so, yeah, there are also lots of birds. Hippo and attending Cattle Egret. Red Lechwe. In particular, there are lots of waterbirds. African Darter and Reed Cormorant. Yellow-billed Stork. Waders are well represented.

Botswana 162

Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

They were busy feeding around the cattle water trough that the cattle can’t get to unless they want wet hooves! It isn’t just the birds that seek the higher ground, but also the reptiles. Whiskered Terns in flight.

Barn Owls 179

Barn Owls Cattle Ducks Reptiles 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

An ultimate freshwater predator that for 100 million years felt no need to evolve any further, the Nile crocodile is the largest African reptile by far. Cattle Egret 16. Anyway, since the only croc I had seen in Africa until then was the five foot chap in a pool by the nearby restaurant I desired to see one in its natural surroundings.

Botswana 181

Botswana Africa 2001 Fish 181

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2012

Little Blue and Tricolored Herons , Snowy , Great , and Cattle Egrets , a Laughing Falcon , Black Vultures, Blue-winged Teal , a Wood Stork , a nesting tree of Montezuma Oropendulas , and Ruddy Ground-Doves were just some of the species we saw on our short train ride into the refuge.

Honduras 156

Honduras Wildlife Monkeys Transported 156