BIRD WATCHING TOUR GUJRAT

BIRD WATCHING TOUR GUJRAT

  • $ 2800

    per person
  • 12 Days/11 Nights
  • Ahmedabad, Velavadar, Jamnagar, Porbandar, Gir Somnath

  • Pick-up & Drop Location:
    • AHMEDABAD & AHMEDABAD
    • Suggested Pick-Up Time: 11 PM
    • Tour Code: A&A-BWT-018
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Many Indian endemics and migratory birds choose Gujarat as their wintering base, attracting birdwatchers from all over the world each year. The variety of bird habitats in Gujarat, a coastal state in western India, is what makes birding there unique. The Rann of Kutch, a huge expanse of marshy, salt-crusted flatland in northwest Gujarat, is home to a variety of ecosystems, including mangroves, scrub woods, deserts, wetlands, and grasslands. The Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests, which are located to the east, are home to a vast variety of species and birds. The Western Ghats' verdant highlands are to the south. Up to 611 different species of birds, both migratory and resident, can be found in Gujarat's numerous rivers, reservoirs, lakes, forests, national parks, and wildlife sanctuaries. To provide you unique views of the area's avian treasures, our Gujarat birding tour visits the top birding destinations in Gujarat. We possess the skills, knowledge, and experience to provide you with unique bird viewing experiences, including seeing the Great Indian Bustard and MacQueen's Bustard (a winter visitor) at the same location. We put you on the trails and birding areas that offer unique views of stunning birds such as the Short-eared Owl, Blossom-headed Parakeet, Asian Paradise Flycatcher, Purple Swamphen, Black-hooded Oriole, Coppersmith Barbet, Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, and Pheasant-Tailed Jacana. Thousands of Demoiselle Cranes, Common Cranes, Lesser Flamingos, and several kinds of ducks, pelicans, and waterfowl can be seen during our birdwatching vacation in Gujarat. You have a high chance of seeing the quiet White-naped Tit, the elusive Stoliczka's Bushchat, and the charming Indian Skimmer on our birding excursion in Gujarat.

Itinerary at a Glance

  • Day 1: ARRIVAL IN AHMEDABAD
  • DAY 2 : AHMEDABAD TO NAL SAROVAR
  • DAY 3: AHMEDABAD TO THOL BIRD SANCTURY TO DASADA
  • DAY 4: DASADA
  • DAY 5: DASADA TO JAMNAGAR (300 KM/ 5HR 30 MIN)
  • DAY 6: JAMNAGAR
  • DAY 7 : JAMNAGAR TO PORBANDAR (120 KM/ 2 HR 30 MIN)
  • DAY 8 : PORBANDAR TO GIR (150 KM/ 3 HR)
  • DAY 9 : GIR NATIONAL PARK
  • DAY 10: GIR TO BHAVNAGAR TO VELAVADAR (220 KM/ 5 HR)
  • DAY 11: VELAVADAR TO AHMEDABAD
  • DAY 12: AHMEDABAD DEPART

  • Day 1: ARRIVAL IN AHMEDABAD

    Welcome upon landing at Ahmedabad airport. After meeting and Assisting service at the airport, transfer to the hotel, check-in, and spend the rest of the day free for leisure. Supper at the hotel and overnight stay at the hotel in Ahmedabad.

  • DAY 2 : AHMEDABAD TO NAL SAROVAR

    Breakfast at the hotel and then proceed to Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, India’s most significant bird sanctuary, which is a full-day bird watching. Important birds the sanctuary has over 250 bird species, which include larger and lesser flamingoes, pelicans, ducks & geese, rails, coots, cranes, cormorants, herons, egrets, storks, ibises, spoonbills, teals, sarus cranes, moorhens, and waders, etc. evening back to hotel overnight stay in Ahmedabad.

     

  • DAY 3: AHMEDABAD TO THOL BIRD SANCTURY TO DASADA

    After checking out and eating breakfast at the hotel, proceed to Dasada. Stop by Thol Bird Sanctuary en route. Birds are present, and you may view wetlands as beneficial to local birds and Egyptian and griffon vultures. Other birds entering the park include pied, common, white-throated kingfishers, shikra, blue throat, rose starling, black ibis, white pelican, grey and pond hero, and falcon. After lunch, drive through Kutch, a small area that serves as a refuge for Indian wild horses. Rainfall creates green places perfect for birding on this old seabed that was transformed into saline desert plains by geological forces. There is a chance of seeing bigger hoopoe larks, ashy-crowned and black-crowned sparrow larks, singing and Indian bush larks, bimaculated larks, Oriental Skylarks, and crest and Sykes larks. The desert warbler is one of the many winter visiting singers, and other probable sightings include the desert and variegated wheatears, southern grey, long-tailed, rufous-tailed, bay-back shrike, and standard wood shrike. In the scrubby areas, we will also search for rufous-tailed scrub robin, blue-headed rock thrush, black redstart, wryneck, brown-rock chat, pied bush chat, quails, yellow-legged and barred buttonquails, Indian courser (occasionally cream-colored visits), chestnut-bellied and spotted sandgrouse, and buntings. Marsh, Montagu and pallid harriers, Aquila eagles, falcons, and vultures can all be seen making their way to their roosting locations at dusk. The nilgai, chinkara gazelle, white-footed desert and Indian foxes, wolves, and other creatures can be seen during the overnight stay at the hotel, in addition to the wild ass.  

  • DAY 4: DASADA

    Breakfast at the motel and then drive to the bets, elevated patches in the Rann covered with scrub and grass. In winter, this is a likely area for Macqueen’s Bustard. Long-legged. Common and white-eyed buzzard, booted eagle, bonneli’s eagle. Short-toed snake eagles are regularly sighted during the drive. An evening visit to Nawa Talao, a lake where cranes and demmossiles congregate in massive numbers all winter. Large numbers of greater and lesser flamingos are observed, including Dalmatian, spot-billed, and great white pelicans. Black, glossy, and black-headed ibis can also be mistaken for painted, openbill, wooly-necked, white, black, and black-naked storks. Visitors to the lake include cotton pygmy goose, cotton tufted duck, lesser whistling duck, pochards, brahmin, com duck, mallard, gadwall, wigeon, garganey, shoveller, northern pintail, common teal, and spot-billed duck. Return to your Dasada hotel for the night.

  • DAY 5: DASADA TO JAMNAGAR (300 KM/ 5HR 30 MIN)

    Eat breakfast at the hotel and then walk around Dasada village. This can produce a decent bird list with yellow-legged green pigeons, paradise flycatchers, fantails, red-breasted flycatchers, white-eye prints, and warblers. After that, go back to the hotel, check out, and then drive to Jamnagar—this an intrusting route traversing rural areas and lakes. Birds of open terrain like roller and black-shouldered kites might be spotted. We will arrive at the hotel in Jamnagar and have lunch there. Then, we will try to gain a permit to enter the Marine National Park the next day. Evening tour to Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary, this wetland reserve is remarkable in that around half of the water is fresh while the other half is saline; accordingly, it supports a startling variety of animals. Vast numbers of flamingos and cranes, typically including astonishing numbers of Demoiselle, winter here, as do big numbers of pelicans and shorebirds. Indian Nightjars breed, and we should be able to find a couple, while other species we’ll seek include Baillon’s Crake, Small Pratincole, Black-necked Stork, and Indian Reed warbler. Back to hotel overnight stay in hotel.

     

  • DAY 6: JAMNAGAR

    Hotel breakfast. After that, travel to the Gulf of Kutch, one of the best places to go birdwatching on the Indian coast. Common tern, lesser-crested tern, gull-billed tern, common tern, little tern, black-bellied tern, whiskered tern, darters, western reef Ehret, ruddy turnstone, crab-plover, oystercatcher, sanderling, dunlin, curlew sandpiper, black-headed gull, Pallas gull, gimmicks stint, and other birds can be seen here. I am returning to the hotel for dinner at the Jamnagar Hotel for the night.



  • DAY 7 : JAMNAGAR TO PORBANDAR (120 KM/ 2 HR 30 MIN)

    Breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, check out, then drive to Porbandar. On arrival, Porbandar proceeds to Porbandar Bird Sanctuary for a full-day bird viewing. This 1-kilometer square region is visited regularly by migratory birds. Flamingos, Grebes, Pelicans, Ducks and geese, Avocets, Coots, Cormorants, Herons, Egrets, Bittern, Storks, Ibis, Spoonbill, Cranes, Whistling Teals, Gulls, Terns, Jacanas, Ruff, Red shanks, Indian roller and many other sorts of winged, fluffy creatures visit throughout the winters. Back to hotel overnight stay in Porbandar

  • DAY 8 : PORBANDAR TO GIR (150 KM/ 3 HR)

    Breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, go to Porbandar Bird Park word watching, then drive to Gir National Park. Sasangir National Park was established in 1965 to protect Asiatic Lion and was officially proclaimed a national park in 1975. This fabulous reserve protects vast areas of dry deciduous forest, acacia scrub, and grassland. It is mainly famous as it is the only place on the whole Asian continent where the Asiatic Lion can still be found. Gir also has a thriving population of Leopard, Sambar, Chital (Spotted Deer), Nilgai (Blue Bull Antelope) and Wild Boar. This reserve is additionally an excellent place to try and find the Chousingha (the world's only four-horned antelope). Bird-wise, the deciduous forests in the area are home to Changeable Hawk-Eagle, Crested Serpent Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, the gorgeous Painted Sandgrouse, Black-hooded, and Indian Golden Orioles, Common Iora, Tickell's Blue, Red-throated and Verditer Flycatchers, Yellow-crowned and Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpeckers, Lesser Goldenback, stunning Green Bee-eater, gorgeous Coppersmith Barbet, Plum-headed Parakeet, White-bellied Drongo, Large Cuckooshrike, Small Minivet, Tawny-bellied and Large Grey Babblers, Grey-breasted, Ashy, Rufous-fronted and Jungle Prinias, Indian Reed Warbler, Booted, Hume's Leaf and Greenish Warblers, Indian Roller and Yellow-footed Green Pigeon. Afternoon game drive into the park by open 4WD accompanied by a local naturalist. Overnight at Lion Safari Camp

     

  • DAY 9 : GIR NATIONAL PARK

    Eat breakfast at the hotel and enjoy your morning and afternoon safaris inside Gir National Park, where you can only encounter Asiatic lions in the wild. The Park boasts a robust Leopard population, and you may also spot Chinkara (Indian Gazelle) and Chousingha, which is the world’s only four-horned antelope, along with Mottled Wood-Owl, White-bellied Minivet and Painted Sandgrouse if you are lucky. You’ll be introduced and interact with the Maldharis. The intriguing, semi-nomadic group lives in ancient communities called “nesses” and cares for their herds of Jafrabadi buffalos, Gir cows, and other livestock (in fact, the term Maldhari means “owner of animal stock”). Overnight at Lion Safari Camp.

     

  • DAY 10: GIR TO BHAVNAGAR TO VELAVADAR (220 KM/ 5 HR)

    Breakfast at the hotel and check out, then go to Bhavnagar. On arrival, Bhavnagar will Visit Bird in Victoria Park (excellent scrubland birdlife), Gaurishankar Lake, and the ports where the western reef egrets’ nest in good Numbers. Then, in the evening, drive to Velavadar. On arrival, check-in at the hotel and have dinner at the hotel during an overnight stay in Velavadar.

  • DAY 11: VELAVADAR TO AHMEDABAD

    Breakfast at the hotel. Next, visit Velavadar National Park. Known For its enormous blackbuck antelope population, velavadar is also one of the few sites where wolves increase in India, but they are rarely spotted in the daylight. Jackals, jungle cats, and hares are more easily observed as Indian foxes in the Periphery. Sirkeer malkoha, chestnut-bellied and painted francolin, spotted sandgrouse, rufous-tailed, crested and sykes larks, red-rumped swallows, variable wheatears, and desert and other birds are seen. Many raptors visit, especially short-toed snake eagles, tawny, imperial, steppe, greater and lesser spotted eagles, laggard falcon, hobby, common kestrel, white-eye and long-legged buzzard, black-shouldered kite, shikra, Eurasian sparrow-hawk and occasionally northern goshawk, etc. after that drive to Ahmedabad on arrival check in hotel dinner at hotel overnight stay in Ahmedabad. 

     

  • DAY 12: AHMEDABAD DEPART

    Eat breakfast at the hotel, then proceed to the airport, drop by, and catch a flight to your home nation.

  • Night Stay in hotel as per Itinerary
  • Meal as per itinerary Breakfast and Dinner
  • Monument Entrance
  • Elephant And Jeep Ride at Amber Fort in Jaipur
  • Rikshaw Ride in old Delhi
  • Golf Car for Taj Mahal
  • Air-conditioned Coach throughout the tour as per the itinerary
  • English/Spanish/French/German Speaking Guide
  • Arrival & Departure Assistance at airport
  • All fuel charges, toll taxes, Driver allowance, state tax entry, etc.
  • Presently applicable government taxes.
  • Any air fare, airport departure, GST tax, etc.
  • Camera Entrance Fees
  • Any Lunch
  • Bank charges for payment transfer
  • Expenses of personal nature such as laundry, telephone bill, etc.
  • Any kind of tips
  • Other service not mentioned above

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