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5 November 2001

Birding at Chitwan National Park (Nepal)

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  • Catch the bus to Chitwan National Park – famous for it’s birds. I bump into the Dutch girls there and we all get on very well. Great Indian food at a local restaurant.
  • I hire a guide who specialisea in birds and spend two days trekking the jungles. See 74 new birds – amazing… Also see Sloth Bear and hear Tiger roaring very close by. The long grass makes it hard to spot animals but the birds make up for that. Highlights include stork billed kingfisher and enormous woodpeckers. 6 species of woodpecker alone! I really enjoy my guide – La. I try desperately to email him afterwards but the email bounces back.

New birds seen in Chitwan National Park (72)

  • Red-vented bulbul
  • Lineated Barbet
  • Blue-eared Bee-eater
  • Black-crested Bulbul
  • Red-whiskered bulbul
  • Common Buzzard
  • Oriental Honey Buzzard
  • Common Coot
  • House Crow
  • Large-billed crow
  • Yellow-billed Chough
  • Large Cuckooshrike
  • Darter
  • Emarald Dove
  • Eurasian Collared Dove
  • Black Drongo
  • Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
  • Spangled Drongo
  • White-bellied drongo
  • Grey-headed Fish Eagle
  • White-throated fantail
  • Oriental Pied Hornbill
  • Black Ibis
  • Common Iora
  • Stork-billed Kingfisher
  • Rufous-winged Bushlark
  • Sand Lark
  • Red-billed Blue Magpie
  • Rufous Treepie
  • Scarlet Minivet
  • Small Minivet
  • Common Moorhen
  • Jungle Myna
  • Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch
  • Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
  • Black-hooded Oriole
  • Asian Barred Owlet
  • Alexandrine Parakeet
  • Plum-headed Parakeet
  • Red Jungle Fowl
  • Yellow-footed Green Pigeon
  • Olive-backed Pipit
  • Ashy Prinia
  • Grey-Breasted Prinia
  • Grey-crowned Prinia
  • Plain Prinia
  • Common rosefinch
  • Common Woodshrike
  • Large Woodshrike
  • Jack Snipe
  • Lesser Adjutant
  • Barn Swallow
  • Crested Tree Swift
  • Great Tit
  • Egyptian Vulture
  • Lammergeier
  • Common Greenshank
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Red-wattled Lapwing
  • Citrine Wagtail
  • White Wagtail
  • White-browed Wagtail
  • Grey-sided bush warbler
  • Paddyfield Warbler
  • Black-breasted Weaver
  • Oriental white-eye
  • Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker
  • Greater Flameback
  • Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
  • Grey-headed Woodpecker
  • Himalyan Flameback
  • Lesser Yellownape
  • Ashy Woodswallow

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