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    This document summarizes a two-day bird watching trip to the Bhigwan Bird Sanctuary. On the first day, the author and their group took a boat survey and saw many migratory birds like brown headed gulls, whiskered terns, painted storks, grey herons, river terns, and northern shovelers. They also saw small pratincoles and white-browed wagtails at sunset. The second day began with an early morning boat survey where they saw painted storks, black-winged stilts, northern shovelers, seagulls and a large group of flamingos. They also spotted eurasian spoonbills, little egrets, river

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    This document summarizes a two-day bird watching trip to the Bhigwan Bird Sanctuary. On the first day, the author and their group took a boat survey and saw many migratory birds like brown headed gulls, whiskered terns, painted storks, grey herons, river terns, and northern shovelers. They also saw small pratincoles and white-browed wagtails at sunset. The second day began with an early morning boat survey where they saw painted storks, black-winged stilts, northern shovelers, seagulls and a large group of flamingos. They also spotted eurasian spoonbills, little egrets, river

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    Wildlife Minimal Journal

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    This document summarizes a two-day bird watching trip to the Bhigwan Bird Sanctuary. On the first day, the author and their group took a boat survey and saw many migratory birds like brown headed gulls, whiskered terns, painted storks, grey herons, river terns, and northern shovelers. They also saw small pratincoles and white-browed wagtails at sunset. The second day began with an early morning boat survey where they saw painted storks, black-winged stilts, northern shovelers, seagulls and a large group of flamingos. They also spotted eurasian spoonbills, little egrets, river

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    BIRD WALK AT

    BHIGWAN

    A Walk Through
    by Nikhil.S
    Bhigwan Bird Sanctuary
    "There was
    nowhere to go but
    everywhere."
    - Jack Kerouac
    JOURNAL
    ENTRY (day 1)
    This journal starts right around 3:45pm on Dec 5 .
    we get settled at the homestay and head out for lunch which
    hits the jackpot , tasty as it is we next get ready for the boat
    survey as planned at 4pm .
    we were split into groups of 6 , mine included of Harshit ,
    kiran , adithya , Angad , Shivam D and myself .
    few mins into the survey we get a warm welcome from a
    large flock of ' brown headed gulls ' nd ' Whiskered tern they
    were full in richness .
    .
    we continued forward in full steam just to be stopped by a
    beautiful sighting of a ' Painted Stork ' it was a resident of the
    lake and at the moment it was taking its time on top a tree in
    middle of the lake . we got a see alot of the same later in the
    day .
    JOURNAL
    ENTRY (day 1)
    next on the way we got see the richness of ' grey herons '
    'river terns ' 'northern shovelers ' 'whiskered tern' of these
    are winter victors from other places for food (migratory) .
    .
    the survey for the first day was around 3 hrs lasting till 7:30
    pm . before it came to the ending on day 1 we got to see a
    beautiful sunset with a display of flocking ' small pratincoles
    ' and ' white brown wagtails '.
    after all these we get back to the land and rested up .
    we were given an amazing fish thali which was stomack
    stuffing enough :) and after we chilled up and ended with
    first day .
    JOURNAL
    ENTRY (day 1)
    DAY 1 sightings with Photographic reference
    JOURNAL
    ENTRY (day 1)
    DAY 1 sightings with Photographic reference
    JOURNAL
    ENTRY (day 2)
    Stepping into Day 2 , starts with an early morning boat
    survey @ 6 am . the first sighting of the day for me was of a
    'painted stork' trying find its food btw 3 boats . getting closer
    i was able to identify ' a small group of black winged stilts , '
    northern shovelers ', ' seagulls ' etc
    .
    we continued to the main spot of attraction to find the
    people fav the ' greater flamingos ' they came in abundance
    it was a spectacular scene . but there was this one ' indian
    cormorant ' who kept disturbing my shots . ( LOL that SRK
    bird ) but it was worth it . nd it was time for us to get back to
    land for breakfast on the way back we spotted ' Eurasian
    Spoonbill' ,' little egret' , 'river tern' , ' green bee - eater ' ,
    'common stonechat '.
    also got a special chance to see ' greater spotted eagle ', an '
    osprey ' and an ' Eurasian marsh Harrier " in action .

    JOURNAL
    ENTRY (day 2)
    thus we reached land had our breakfast and had leasuire
    time to talk and share the photographs we took and rested
    up till we got our bus ride back to campus .
    .
    i would like to thank the college , the profs who accompanied
    us with this trip and special mention to sandip nagre bhai
    for oragainising and helping us with local stays and
    everything . its was a great experience for me .
    JOURNAL
    ENTRY (day 2)
    DAY 1 sightings with Photographic reference
    JOURNAL
    ENTRY (day 2)
    DAY 1 sightings with Photographic reference

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