🌿🌿 Destination: Sattal & Chopta
Successfully completed First tour of 2019 in Sattal and Chopta Bird Photography Tour. Please find below the Tour Report about the Birds and Mammals we have seen and photographed during the tour.Â
📅Date: 29 Dec’18 - 6 Jan’19
Areas Covered: Sattal, Chafi, Pangot, Mandal and Chopta
đź‘Ą Number of Guests:
    Sattal Pangot- 5
    Mandal Chopta- 3
Birds we have seen/photographed:
1. Rufous throated partridge
2. Hill partridge
3. Black francolinÂ
4. Red junglefowlÂ
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 thrushÂ
12. Varigeated laughing thrush
13. Rufous chinned laughing thrush
14. Streaked laughing thrush
15. Striated laughing thrush
16. Green backed tit
17. White throated titÂ
18. Yellow cheeked tit
19. Black throated tit
20. Long billed thrush
21. Alpine thrush
22. Mistle thrush
23. Blue whistling thrush
24. Scarlet finch
25. Pink browed rose finch
26. Spot winged rose finch
27. Red headed bull finch
28. Golden bush robin
29. Grey winged black bird
30. Himalayan blue tail
31. Blue fronted redstart
32. Blue capped redstart
33. Plumbeous water redstart
34. White capped water redstart
35. Speckled piculetÂ
36. Crested kingfisher
37. Snow pigeon
38. Eurasian jay
39. Black headed jay
40. Rufous breasted accentor
41. Bearded vultureÂ
42. Himalayan griffon vultureÂ
43. ShikraÂ
44. Eurasian sparrowhawk
45. Steppe eagleÂ
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 treecreeperÂ
64. Slaty headed parakeet
65. Great barbet
66. Oriental white eye
67. Rock bunting
68. Himalayan shrike babbler
69. Brown wood owl
70. Asian barred owlet
71. Tawny fish owl
72. Grey breasted prinia
73. House sparrow
74. Long billed crow
75. Yellow bellied fantail
76. White throated fantailÂ
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. Blue winged minla
85. Rufous sibia
Mammals we have seen/photographed:
1. Yellow throated marten
2. Himalayan Goral
3. Himalayan Thar
Thanks to all my participants, beloved and helpful Guides and of course you my God for such a beautiful sighting of avian life.
.jpeg)
.jpeg)
.jpeg)
