Indian summer has many moods. It arrives with a friendly warmth around spring equinox and peaks with searing heat at the time of solstice. The sun relents with the coming of monsoon rains and the temperature stays mostly pleasant thereafter until the onset of autumn. This period of heat and rain replenishes the flora and brings out an ecological diversity that has few equals in the world. Also special about this time is the great potential it holds out for birdwatching in India.
Our Summer Birding Tours of India tap into this potential by extensively covering the birding hotspots that see maximum avian activity in the summer months. These hotspots are spread across the country and each one of them offers a distinct birdwatching experience and adventure.
The state of Rajasthan in west India, for instance, is ideal for those looking for a dash of wildlife adventure and touristy holiday alongside serious birdwatching. If that isn’t enough, our summer tours tie up Rajasthan birding hotspots with some of the ace birdwatching destinations of North India – namely Kashmir and Uttarakhand – to open up a whole wide arena for you to watch birds to your heart’s content.
Our North India Birding Tour covers both Rajasthan and Uttarakhand in an elaborate expedition lasting 15 days. We scour the trails of Ranthambore National Park and Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan for avian specialties like Bar-headed Goose, Comb Duck, Dusky Eagle Owl, Siberian Crane, Sarus Crane, Painted Spurfowl, White-naped Woodpecker, Painted Sandgrouse and Indian Courser, apart from many others. A sightseeing trip of Taj Mahal is a pleasant interlude before the tour shifts to the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand for birdwatching at Jim Corbett National Park. Here, we chase the avian stunners like Kalij Pheasant, Great Slaty Woodpecker, Stork-billed Kingfisher and Ibisbill, and go on multiple tiger safaris to see the big ferocious cat.
In contrast, our Rajasthan and Kashmir Birding Tour goes beyond the popular Indian birding hotspots to the little-known and rarely-explored places, such as the Rajasthan village of Sonkhaliya, where one can spot the Lesser Florican and Great Indian Bustard in the period from mid-July to early August. In Kashmir, the Dachigam National Park is our stomping ground to look for the likes of Cheer Pheasant, Koklass Pheasant, Bearded Vulture (Lammergeier), Himalayan Griffon, Golden Eagle, and Red-billed Chough.
Speaking of the remote birding trails of India, you can’t go better than an Andamans Birding Tour. Located several hundred miles off the coast of mainland India in the Bay of Bengal, the archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar Islands is home to several rare endemic bird species. And if you’re touring in summer, you can make the most of this expedition by splicing in a birding trip to South India as well for many endemic birds of the Western Ghats. That’s exactly what our South India and Andamans Birding Tour does. It strings together the birding haunts such at ChidiyaTapu in Andamans and Thattekad Bird Sanctuary in Kerala in a 17-day long tour, crammed with spectacular sightings.
Lastly, our India Summer Birding Tours include two short trips to Northeast India. Mishmi Hills Short Birding Tour of Arunachal Pradesh explores different altitudes from the town Roing (500m) to Mayodia Pass (2655m) for avian specialties like Cachar Wedge-billed Wren Babbler, Mishmi Wren Babbler, Sclater’sMonal, Purple Cochua, and Hill Partridge.Assam Short Birding Tour covers the wetland of MaguriBeel and the lowland forests of DehingPatkai for hundreds of bird species.
The bird count in all of our Summer Birdwatching Tours of India is usually good, if not outright excellent, and the fact that most of these tours take place in more than one state adds variety to the checklist.
Please go through the detailed tour plan of each of these trips. You’re sure to find the Indian summer birding adventureof your liking.
Delhi – Ranthambore National Park - Bharatpur - Keoladeo National Park - Dholpur - Agra - Corbett National Park - Kumeria - Pangot - Sat Tal
15 Days / 14 Nights
Our North India Birding Tour is perfect for those who want a birdwatching holiday packed with hundreds of bird sightings, wildlife adventure, and cultural experience of India. Besides showcasing the birds of North India, our tour takes you on wildlife safaris in search of the tiger, and also includes a sightseeing tour of the Taj Mahal, one of the seven modern wonders of the world. These recreational outings are add-ons that don’t take away any thrill or substance from the birdwatching adventure of India.
Delhi – Jaipur – Ajmer - Sonkhaliya -Srinagar
10 Days / 09 Nights
Our Rajasthan and Kashmir Birding Tour is themed around the monsoon. Every year, the summer rains cool off the sun-scorched landscape and bring out a fascinating variety of avifauna in the western state of Rajasthan and the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir. At first glance, a traveller on India birding holiday finds little that is common between these two geographically and culturally distinct parts of India. Rajasthan, being mostly desert and arid scrubland, gets very hot in summer.
Chennai - Port Blair - Chidiya Tapu - Bangalore - Mysore - Mudumalai - Ooty - Top Slip - Munnar - Thattekad - Cochin
17 Days / 16 Nights
Our birding tour of South India and the Andamans stands out for the many endemic bird species of the region it targets. Seasoned birders know well the thrill of catching sight of the endemics. To scan the woods and wetlands for a glimpse of a local winged beauty is perhaps a touch more rewarding than sighting a bird that moves across regions and habitats. It is this very dash of excitement we wish to tap into on our South India and Andamans Birding Tour.
Dibrugarh – Mishmi Hills - Mayodia Pass - Roing
06 Days / 05 Nights
Our Mishmi Hills Short Birding Tours stands out for the remote and diverse birding hotspots it covers – from the pristine forests and bamboo brakes to alpine meadows and high mountain passes in Himalayan foothills. Arunachal Pradesh in India’s northeast is home to several hundred bird species, many of which can be seen in the beautiful and rarely explored Mishmi Hills in the state’s easternmost extremity, where the Himalayas curve downwards to meet the Indo-Burmese range. Here, in the hills covered with dense vegetation, grasslands, and bamboo thickets.
Dibrugarh – Tinsukia – Maguri Beel - Tinsukia – Digboi - Dehing Patkai - Jeypore Forest Range
05 Days / 04 Nights
More than half the bird species of India can be spotted in the north-eastern state of Assam, and even a short birding trip lasting five days yields spectacular sightings of many rare and gorgeous avian specialties. Our Assam India Short Birding Tours specifically targets India’s largest stretch of tropical lowland forests, the Dehing Patkai region, to make the most of your five days. This region is a vast biodiversity hotspot thriving with several interesting species of resident and migratory birds.
Our India birding tour packages are a cut above the competition, and they especially stand out for their wide range. Put together, these tours throw up sightings of around 700 bird species.
Andaman Birding Tour takes you to one of the world’s remotest birding hotspots and treats you to pageantry of endemic birds.
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Our North India Birding Tour is perfect for those who want a birdwatching holiday packed with hundreds of bird sightings,
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Eaglenest is the centrepiece of our Northeast India birding tours. As a birdwatching destination,
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