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Wildlife at Mayureshwar Sanctuary, Pune

Rudy Birding & Wildlife Hotspots, Featured February 17, 2017May 12, 2018birding in pune, bonellis eagle, chestnut bellied sandgrouse, Chinkara, eurasian sparrowhawk, Hoopoe, Indian Silverbill, Indian stone-curlew, Indian thick-knee, Indian Wolf, Indian wolf at mayureshwar, Laggar Falcon, laggar falcon at mayureshwar, Mayureshwar wildlife sanctuary, Pune-Solapur road, Red collared Dove, short toed snake eagle, striped hyena, striped hyena mayureshwar, striped hyena pair at mayureshwar, striped hyena pune, whistling trails 21 Comments

Situated at around 70 KMs from Pune, Mayureshwar Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Tehsil Baramati in Pune district. The sanctuary is mostly made up of dry deciduous scrub forest and has a variety of flora and fauna specific to grasslands. Being a very small sanctuary (smallest in India), it can be easily covered in a day and is one of our favourite places for bird-watching as we have come across a good number of bird species as well mammals in the sanctuary. Read more

Birding at Little Rann of Kutch

Rudy Birding & Wildlife Hotspots, Featured February 2, 2017May 12, 2018dalmatian pelican, eagle, Great White Pelican, Greater Flamingo, harrier, imperial eagle, Indian Wild Ass, Lesser Flamingo, Little Rann of Kutch, lrk trip report, montagu's harrier, pallid harrier, rosy pelican, short-eared owl at lrk, steppe 1 Comment

Being one of our favourite bird-watching destinations, we never miss out on Little Rann of Kutch and so was the case this year as well. We got some lovely sightings of over 100 species of birds along with some nice photographic opportunities to capture species like the Short-eared Owl, Montagu’s & Pallid Harriers, Dalmatian & Great White Pelicans, Greater & Lesser Flamingos, Greater Spotted, Steppe & Eastern Imperial Eagles and the endemic Indian Wild Ass.

the Magical Bharatpur…

Rudy Birding & Wildlife Hotspots January 17, 2017May 12, 2018bharatpur, bird-watching at bharatpur, bird-watching in india, birding in india, bluebull, Bluethroat, collared scops owl, dusky eagle owl, Keoladeo National Park, Nilgai, oriental darter, Oriental Scops Owl, pelicans, Sarus Crane, sarus cranes, scops owl, snake bird 2 Comments

Foggy mornings, Sarus Cranes, Bluebulls, Pelicans, loads of waterfowls and some mesmerising sunrise & sunset scapes is what you associate with Keoladeo National Park at Bharatpur. We at Wild India Eco Tours had one such trip with an amazing bunch of folks to this place in January 2017. Read more

Wildlife around Hampi!

Rudy Birding & Wildlife Hotspots January 15, 2017May 12, 2018daroji, daroji sloth bear sanctuary, hampi, sloth bear sanctuary, sloth bears at hampi, wildlife, yellow-throated b, yellow-throated bulbul 0 Comment

Winter season being the best season for exploring birds and wildlife, we finally managed to plan a quick 3 day trip to Hampi. We planned for a trip filled with architectures, monuments and landscapes; however we soon found out about the unique and buzzing wildlife activity around Hampi – The globally threatened Yellow-throated Bulbul, the colourful Painted Spurfowl and Painted Sandgrouse, the mighty Indian Eagle Owl, the Sloth Bears…

Weekend tour to Kaas & Thoseghar

Rudy Birding & Wildlife Hotspots, Travel blogs September 16, 2016May 12, 2018abolima, chalkewadi, fan-throated lizard, flower bloom at kaas, flowers at kaas, honey bee, jartari, jumping spider, kaas pathar, kaas plateau, lynx spider, orchids, signature spider, smithia, thoseghar, topli karvi 1 Comment

The Kaas Plateau; also known as “Kaas Pathar” is a biodiversity hotspot (also a UNSECO World Heritage site) known for variety of flowers that bloom in months of August and September every year. We at Wild India Eco Tours visited the plateau on 2nd weekend on September 2016, along with a half day session to visit Chalkewadi & Thoseghar Waterfall. Read more

Macrolicious Amboli

Rudy Birding & Wildlife Hotspots August 31, 2016May 12, 2018amboli, banded gecko, bicolored frog, bioluminescent fungi, brooke's gecko, cat snake, ceropegia jaini, dancing frog, day gecko, hawk moth, jumping spider, khaire's black shieldtail, macro tour amboli, Malabar Gliding Frog, malabar pitviper, malabar raven, prashad's gecko, stripped coral snake, tarantula 0 Comment

Come monsoon season; it is the best time to go out exploring for reptiles & amphibians, and we at Wild India Eco Tours decided to visit Amboli this time. Mixed with rain & fog, the weather was fantastic throughout; add to it some fantastic sightings of 6 snake species including the Cat Snake & Striped Coral Snake; over 10 frog species including the Malabar gliding frog, Dancing frog & Amboli toad Read more