Monday, 12 September 2016

Birding at Tikujiniwadi...

           Tikujiwadi is also known as second door of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) (Borivali) and also it is another entry point for Yeoor, which is also a part of SGNP.
             TIkujiniwadi is located at Ghodbandar Road at Thane. It is famous birding spot amongst various birders around Mumbai because of its great diversity and beauty. Apart from birds it also consists of one small butterfly garden inside the park… so it’s also part of attraction for butterfly lovers.....  I wanted to visit Tikujiwadi since a long time as i am a birder and finally we made a plan to go on 3rd December, 2015.
             On the same morning we means my so called birding buddies RP (Rajesh Poojare) and DP (Darshan Potdar) reached at 7.00 am at the park and started our birding with hunger of so many number of birds.. And as soon as we enter inside the park Asian Paradise Flycatcher (M) gave us warm welcome wearing his black and white coat with long beautiful tail….There were many people had come for morning walk in the park …and they were wondering that why we were starring at trees…. Haha… After that we got to see one individual of Sulphur-bellied Warbler into the canopy… without wasting time we started walking ahead …and further we heard a took …took… call of Copporsmith Barbet and seen it over one bark of tree…. We ended our trail at 11.00 am… and we could sight about 50 species of birds during our trail and many butterflies…




·         Butterflies:

1. Spotted small flat
2. White Orange Tip
3. Yellow Orange Tip.  
4. Peacock Pansy.
5. Grey Pansy
6. Lemon Pansy
7. Blue Tiger.
8. Stripped Tiger
9. Plain Tiger.
10. Great orange Tip.
11. Common Crow.
12. Common Grass Yellow.


Birds:

1. Little Cormorant:  2
2.Indian Cormorant: 2
3. Little Egret: 1
4.Cattle Egret :1
5.Indian Pond-Heron :2
6.Black-shouldered Kit:1
7.Oriental Honey-buzzard: 3 ,all 3 were pale morph.
8.Black Eagle:1, Observed for about an hour. Confirmed the species with the yellow bill base (cere) and feet using binocular and camera.
9. Booted Eagle: 1, all dark morph species.
10.Steppe Eagle: 1
11.White-eyed Buzzard: 1
12.Shikra:3
13.Black Kite:15
14.Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon): 20
15.Greater Coucal: 1
16.Asian Koel: 1
17.Asian Palm-Swift: 25
18.White-throated Kingfisher: 3
19.Green Bee-eater: 15
20.Indian Roller :2
21. Coppersmith Barbet :5
22.Brown-headed Barbet :1    , in flight
23.Common Woodshrike : 1
24.Common Iora : 2
25.Long-tailed Shrike : 2
26.Indian Golden Oriole : 1
27.Black-hooded Oriole:  1
28.Black Drongo  :1
29.Ashy Drongo  :2
30.Black-naped Monarch:  2
31.Indian Paradise-Flycatcher:  1 
32.House Crow  :10
33.Large-billed Crow: 16
34.Dusky Crag-Martin: 25
35.Red-vented Bulbul:  25
36.Red-whiskered Bulbul:  1
37.Common Chiffchaff:  1
38.Sulphur-bellied Warbler :1
39.Blyth's Reed-Warbler: 1
40Common Tailorbird:  1
41.Gray-breasted Prinia:  2
42.Ashy Prinia:  10
43.Jungle Babbler: 21
44.Oriental Magpie-Robin:  10
45.Red-breasted Flycatcher: 2
46.Common Myna:  5
47.Pale-billed Flowerpecker: 5
48.Purple-rumped Sunbird:  5
49.Purple Sunbird:10
50. Chestnut-shouldered Petronia: 2










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