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Sattal & Chopta Bird Photography Tour (6-13 Nov, 2019)


🌿🌿 Destination: Sattal & Chopta

📅Date: 6-13 Nov, 2019

Areas Covered: Sattal, Chafi, Nainital, Mandal, Chopta and Ukkimath

👥Number of Guests:

     Sattal Pangot- 8

      Mandal Chopta- 5

Birds we have photographed during the tour:

1. Wallcreeper

2. Chestnut eared bunting

3. Black francolin

4. Red junglefowl

5. Himalayan Monal

6. Koklass pheasant

7. Kalij pheasant

8. Common green magpie

9. White throated laughing thrush

10. White crested laughing thrush

11. Chestnut crowned laughing thrush

12. Varigeated laughing thrush

13. Rufous chinned laughing thrush

14. Streaked laughing thrush

15. Striated laughing thrush

16. Green backed tit

17. White throated tit

18. Yellow cheeked tit

19. Black throated tit

20. Blue whistling thrush

24. Scarlet finch

25. Pink browed rose finch

26. Golden bush robin

29. Grey winged black bird

30. Himalayan blue tail

31. Slaty blue flycatcher

32. Blue capped redstart

33. Plumbeous water redstart

34. White capped water redstart

35. Speckled piculet

36. Crested kingfisher

37. Snow pigeon

38. Eurasian jay

39. Black headed jay

40. Rufous breasted accentor

41. Bearded vulture

42. Himalayan griffon vulture

43. Shikra

44. Eurasian sparrowhawk

45. Steppe eagle

46. Rufous bellied woodpecker

47. Brown fronted woodpecker

48. Himalayan woodpecker

49. Scaly bellied woodpecker

50. Greater yellownape

51. Lesser yellow nape

52. Chestnut headed tesia

53. Scaly breasted wren babbler

54. Black chinned babbler

55. Brown dipper

56. Red billed blue magpie

57. Rusty cheeked scimitar babbler

58. Aberrant bush warbler

59. Chestnut bellied nuthatch

60. Red vented bulbul

61. Himalayan bulbul

62. Grey tree pie

63. Bar tailed treecreeper

64. Slaty headed parakeet

65. Great barbet

66. Indian white eye

67. Rock bunting

68. Grey capped pygmy woodpecker

69. Himalayan buzzard

70. Asian barred owlet

71. Tawny fish owl

72. House sparrow

74. Long billed crow

75. Yellow bellied fantail

76. White throated fantail

77. Rufous gorgeted flycatcher

78. Ashy drongo

79. Whiskered yuhina

80. Stripe throated yuhina

81. Little forktail

82. Spotted forktail

83. Black throated thrush

84. Rufous sibia

85. Hill partridge(call heard)

86. Chukar partridge

Mammals we have seen/photographed:

1. Yellow throated marten

2. Himalayan Thar

3. Himalayan Pika

Thanks to all my participants, beloved and helpful Guides and of course you my God for such a beautiful sighting of avian life.

Regards,