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Eaglenest-Sela Pass-Mandala Bird Photography tour (3-14 May 2023)


🌿🌿 Destination: Eaglenest-Sela Pass-Mandala (3-14 May 2023)

PS: Due to the sudden closure of Nameri National park due to water logging unfortunately cancelled the Nameri part (11-14 May)

📅Date: 3-11 May 2023

👥 Number of participants: 5 

🚙 Number of vehicles: 2(Mahindra Xylo)

Birds Photographed during the trip:

1. Greater adjutant

2. Striated grassbird

3. Eurasian tree sparrow

4. Black tailed crake

5. Yellow rumped honeyguide

6. Ashy drongo

7. Long tailed minivet

8. White browed shrike babbler

9. Green backed tit

10. Black throated prinia

11. Russet bush warbler

12. Brownish flanked bush warbler

13. Indian white eye

14. Blue winged minla

15. Mrs Gould’s sunbird

16. Himalayan cuckoo

17. Eurasian/Spotted nutcracker

18. Oriental skylark

19. Brown bush warbler

20. Buff throated warbler

21. Streak breasted scimitar babbler

22. Slender billed scimitar babbler

23. Gray bushchat

24. Rufous breasted accentor

25. Russet sparrow

26. Olive backed pipit

27. Rufous bellied woodpecker

28. Darjeeling woodpecker

29. Lemon rumped warbler

30. Whistler’s warbler

31. Large billed leaf warbler

32. Rufous capped babbler

33. Rufous winged fulvetta

34. Chestnut crowned laughingthrush

35. Streak throated barwing

36. Chestnut tailed minla

37. Red tailed minla

38. Spotted laughingthrush

39. Sikkim treecreeper

40. Wedge tailed green pigeon

41. Bhutan laughingthrush

42. Tickell’s thrush

43. Greenish warbler

44. Fire tailed myzornis

45. Grandala

46. Fire tailed sunbird

47. Alpine accentor

48. Snow partridge(seen from very far at Sela, no photographed)

49. Himalayan monal

50. White browed tit warbler

51. White winged grosbeak

52. Blood pheasant

53. Snow pigeon

54. Black faced laughingthrush

55. Eurasian/Winter wren

56. White wagtail

57. Long billed plover

58. Lesser cuckoo

59. Bar winged wren babbler

60. White tailed robin

61. Ward’s trogon

62. Bugun liocichla

63. Dark sided flycatcher

64. Sapphire flycatcher

65. Barred cuckoo dove

66. Black winged cuckooshrike

67. Whiskered yuhina 

68. Rusty fronted barwing 

69. Red faced liocichla

70. Spotted elachura

71. Slender billed oriole

72. Blyth’s leaf warbler

73. Stripe throted yuhina

74. Rufous vented yuhina

75. Black eared shrike babbler

76. Pygmy cupwing/wren babbler

77. Mountain imperial pigeon

78. White browed piculet

79. Striated bulbul

80. White spectacled warbler

81. Gray cheeked warbler

82. Mountain tailorbird

83. Black throated parrotbill

84. Golden babbler

85. Rufous throated wren babbler

86. Yellow throated fulvetta

87. Himalayan cutia

88. Sikkim wedge billed babbler

89. Long billed wren babbler

90. Beautiful nuthatch

91. Great barbet

92. Silver eared mesia

93. Black throated sunbird

94. Crimson breasted woodpecker

95. Maroon oriole

96. Chestnut crowned warbler

97. Black faced warbler

98. Golden breasted fulvetta

99. Purple cochoa

100. Buff barred warbler

101. Himalayan shortwing

102. Kalij pheasant

103. Gray peacock pheasant

104. Asian emerald dove

105. Asian emerald cuckoo

106. Eye browed wren babbler

107. Long tailed sibia

108. Rufous backed sibia

109. Yellow bellied warbler

110. Rufous faced warbler

111. Striated yuhina

112. Square tailed drongo cuckoo

113. Golden throated barbet

114. Speckled piculet

115. Long tailed broadbill

116. Large blue flycatcher

117. Crested goshawk

118. Mountain hawk eagle

119. Pin striped tit babbler

120. Asian fairy bluebird

121. Yelllow vented warbler

122. White breasted parrotbill

123. Red scimitar babbler

124. White hooded babbler

125. Verditer flycatcher

126. Ludlow’s or Brown throated fulvetta

Sharing the major highlights of sightings of the trip in a collage format. 

Thank you