🌿🌿 Destination: Andaman & Great Nicobar Island
Successfully completed two back to back Andaman-Nicobar Bird Photo tours with great photography of endemic birds and some non-endemic rarity from both the islands.Â
Temperature: 24-37’c
đź“…Date:
3-14 March, 2019- 3 guests
15-26 March, 2019- 5 guests
Birds we have seen and photographed during the tours are follows :-
1. Andaman Green pigeon
2. Andaman Imperial pigeon
3. Andaman Cuckoo dove
4. Andaman Serpent Eagle
5. Andaman teal
6. Common teal
7. Red necked stint
8. Long toed stint
9. Andaman crake (call heard)
10. Andaman wood pigeon (call heard)Â
11. Andaman coucal/Brown coucal
12. Andaman woodpecker
13. Andaman Treepie
14. Frickle breasted woodpecker
15. Andaman bulbul
16. Andaman drongo
17. Andaman Shama
18. Andaman white headed starling
19. Andaman flowerpecker
20. Andaman scops owl
21. Andaman hawl owl
22. Andaman masked owl (only seen)
23. Walden’s scops owl
24. Hume’s hawk owl
25. Andaman nightjar
26. Olive backed sunbird
27. Crimson sunbird
28. Common kingfisher
29. Blue eared kingfisher
30. Oriental dwarf kingfisher
31. Collared kingfisher
32. White collared kingfisher (Nicobar sub species)
33. White throated kingfisher
34. Stork billed kingfisher
35. Ruddy kingfisher
36. Black capped kingfisher
37. Long tailed parakeet
38. Orange headed thrush
39. Mangrove whistler
40. Pacific reef egret (Both White and Grey morph)
41. Whimbrel
42. Asian Glossy starlingÂ
43. Asian Glossy starling (Nicobar sub species)
44. Greater racked tailed drongo
45. Glossy swift
46. Pin tailed snipe
47. Common snipe
48. Whiskered tern
49. Kentish plover
50. Lesser sand plover
51. Chestnut headed bee-eater
52. White breasted wood swallow
53. Barn swallow
54. Pacific swallow
55. Glossy swift
56. Edible nest swiftlet
57. Red throated pipit
58. Chinese egret
59. Little egret
60. Cattle egret
61. Nicobar bulbul
62. Nicobar serpent eagle
63. Nicobar megapode
64. Hooded pitta
65. Nicobar scops owl
66. Nicobar imperial pigeon
67. Nicobar pigeon (Only seen, flying)
68. Nicobar parakeet
69. Pied Imperial pigeon
70. Spotted redshank
71. Chinese pond heron
72. Nicobar Jungle flycatcher
73. Chinese sparrowhawk
74. Changeable hawk eagle
75. Crested serpent eagle
76. Brown hawk owl
77. Common sandpiper
78. Wood sandpiper
79. Common redshank
80. Black naped monarch flycatcher
81. Indian white eye
82. Large cuckooshrike
83. Southern hill myna
84. Common myna
85. Purple heron
86. Grey heron
87. Indian pond heron
88. Grey headed swamphen
89. White breasted waterhen
90. Common moorhen
91. Oriental reed warbler
92. Dusky warbler
93. Black browed reed warbler
94. Clamorous reed warbler
95. Oriental pratincole
96. White bellied sea eagle
97. Pacific golden plover
98. Cotton pygmy goose
99. Pheasant tailed jacana
100. Red collared dove
101. Asian emerald dove
102. Asian koel
103. Indian cuckoo
104. Asian fairy bluebirdÂ
105. Yellow bitternÂ
106. Little ringed plover
107. Curlew sandpiper
108. Brown shrike
109. Fork-tailed swiftÂ
110. Asian brown flycatcher
111. Brown backed needletail
112. Indian paradise flycatcher
113. Black naped tern
Sharing some screenshots of major highlights of the tour from camera display.
Thank you so much all the guests for your valuable participation in the tour, I would also like to say big thanks to my bird guide for his effort and help.Â
Thank you so much to my God for giving me the opportunity to see and take photograph of this beautiful rare avian life.Â
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