Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Black-rumped Flameback
Black-rumped Flameback
Black-rumped Flameback
Jackal
Pench River
Pench River
is an Indian tributary of the Kanhan River. It originates in the Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh and flows across Pench National Park, which is a reserve for the Tiger Project of India.
The two big dams of the Pench River supply water to the city of Nagpur and to the big thermal power plant located there
The river separates Pench National Park into two halves, east and west Pench. The Pench Tiger Reserve derives its name after the Pench River, which flows from north to south across the reserve. The reserve is situated on the south of the Satpura Hill Ranges in the Seoni District and Chhindwara District in the Madhya Pradesh state of India. The topography is undulating, with most of the area enclosed by small hill ranges and abrupt slopes on all the sides.
The Pench River flowing through the centre of the Reserve is usually dry by April, but a number of water pools, locally known as dohs, are found along the course of the river. These serve as waterholes for wild animals. A few perennial springs also exist in the region. Recently, a number of earthen ponds and shallow wells have been created, providing well-distributed sources of water across the reserve.
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Pench River
We drove down to Pench River and the river was almost dry. We drove out on the river bed but it was still too far to the remaining water. We could see that there were many birds. Egrets and Herons and I saw a Grey Heron, the second Grey Heron since I arrived to India. We saw a Painted Stork and a Asian Openbill.
Asian Openbill is a large stork, but when the Painted Stork landed next to the Asian Openbill the Openbill looked very small. The Openbill got scared and ran away.
I was a wee bit disappointed that we could not get any closer as I would have loved to observe the birds. And we saw a River tern and this is a bird I would have liked to come close to.
Painted Stork
Painted Stork landing next to a Asian Openbill in Pench National Park
Painted Stork
Painted Stork landing next to a Asian Openbill in Pench National Park
Painted Stork
Painted Stork landing next to a Asian Openbill in Pench National Park
Painted Stork
Painted Stork landing next to a Asian Openbill in Pench National Park
Grey Heron
Grey Heron chase away a White Egret
Grey Heron
Grey Heron chase away a White Egret
Grey Heron
Grey Heron chase away a White Egret
Pench River
Alexandrine Parakeet
Alexandrine Parakeet
Alexandrine Parakeet
A nilgai baby (Boselaphus tragocamelus), sometimes called nilgau
A nilgai baby (Boselaphus tragocamelus), sometimes called nilgau
Ruddy shelduck, Brahminy duck
Ruddy shelduck, Brahminy duck
A long tailed Langur monkey with a baby
A long tailed Langur monkey with a baby
A long tailed Langur monkey eating fruit
A long tailed Langur monkey eating fruit
A long tailed Langur monkey eating fruit
A long tailed Langur monkey eating fruit
A Sambar Deer on the back legs eating
A Sambar Deer on the back legs eating
Crested Serpent Eagle
Spotted Deer
Spotted Deer
Spotted Deer
Spotted Deer
Spotted Deer
Indian Gum Tree - Indian Ghost Tree
Sterculia urens
is a species of plant in the family Malvaceae. It is native to India and has been introduced into Burma. A small to medium-sized tree with a pale-coloured trunk, it is commonly known as the भुत्या in Marathi (meaning ghost tree), kulu, Indian tragacanth, gum karaya, katira, sterculia gum or kateera gum. The specific name urens refers to the stinging hairs present on the flowers.
Indian Gum Tree - Indian Ghost Tree
Turtles
Spotted Deer
Spotted Deer
Little Cormorant
Among others I have used Peter Ericsson's web page Birds of Thailand
These galleries contain 668 species of the Birds of Thailand and have been of a great help to identify some of the birds as the birds in Thailand and India are, well, many of them are the same.
I have had most help from my friend, the bird pal I met at Suan Rot Fai. Sending pictures of birds I have not been able to identify to him via Line. 3 minutes later he and he have managed to identify most of the birds I have had problems with. THANKS! Visit his web page m☥lever
for his beautiful pictures.
And my new aid, maybe, and I say maybe the best aid. I brought my mobile phone as my SIM card have stopped working and I tried to get it to work again so I can use the internet. Thus I had my phone in my pocket on my first game drive in Jim Corbett National Park.
We saw a bird and I asked my Guide and the driver if they had a pen and a paper as I had forgot my pen and paper in my room. I remembered my LG phone and I recorded the name. And thus I will always bring my phone. Writing the name in the car and I have found more than once that it can be hard to read what I had wrote when I'm back in my room.
So now I always have my mobile in my pocket and it has been a great help.
Of course, all bird pictures available on my Indianbird checklist of bird I have seen by clicking HERE
Of course, I have seen many many more, but this list is for birds I managed to get on pictureSome of the pictures are OK, and some of them are straight up in a very poor quality