This was our second tour in the area and proved to be just as fruitful. With weather very much in our favor we could record as many as 260 species during the tour. Birding was even more fun with very good company. Here are some of the photos captured during the tour. Other than these there were some rally good species that were sighted but couldn't be photoraphed. Some of them include Blood Pheaset, Himalayan Monal, Dark-breasted Rosefinch, Brandt's Mountain Finch, Alpine Acc

SATTAL, PANGOT AND BEYOND.... Uttarakhand is one of the best places in India to photograph some of the himalayan birds with nearly 600 species of birds found in the state. And Sattal and Pangot area is well known for that with the natural studio in Sattal. We planned our trip during end November which was the beginning of Winter and we were expecting some winter migrants during our tour. We stayed at Camp Milieu – a birding paradise in Ghatgarh. It was s delightful stay there

NOT JUST A PLACE FOR SUN, SEA AND SAND.....BUT ALSO BIRDS!! This was the first of our birding tours for the 2016-17 season and what a fruitful tour it was. The tour was scheduled from 3-6 Nov 2016. The first day started off with the boat ride in river Zuari and the Cumbharjua Canal. The Cumbharjua Canal is a man-made canal that joins two of the major rivers of Goa- river Mandovi and river Zuari. This is a mangrove lined Canal where one gets to see some species very specific t

THE LAND OF THE SANGHAI It takes a lot of heart to plan your first official birding trip to Manipur. But plan we did, thanks to the Centre for Conservation of Nature and Cultivation of Science (CCNCS), Manipur led by Mr. Birjit, IBCN State Co-ordinator who did a wonderful job planning the logistics in a place that is not completely geared to entertain tourists. This way Mrugaya’s first official birding tour and that we took the risk of planning a trip to Manipur was to some e