The Safarist | Subhajit Chaudhuri

Travelling to

Mishmi Hills

Start Date

11 Mar 2018

End Date

18 Mar 2018

Travelling from

Dibrugarh, Assam, India

Currently

3 travelers

Required

1 traveler

Doing a week long trip to Mishmi Hills for birding and bird photography. Trip includes birding in Maguri Beel,Dehing - Patkai to cover possible 150-160 species in the region. Need 1 more person to join us to complete our group. We will be having a local guide with us. Please get in touch soon as we are starting in a few days, trip is on cost sharing basis and details are given below. Also note that an Inner Line Permit is required, so as soon as you decide it's better!

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Subhajit Chaudhuri Trip includes birding in Maguri Beel,Dehing - Patkai to cover possible 150-160 species in the region. Detailed list and other more information will be shared to interested bird photography enthusiast.

about 3 years

Tanmay Keshav As awesome as it sounds, cant make it this time. Best of luck to you guys!

about 3 years

Mohit Srinivasan Hi Subhajit, if you have a birding target list ready, can you share a link to it with us? Just wanted it for info. Thanks

about 3 years

Subhajit Chaudhuri Mohit , PM'ed you about the list.

about 3 years

Mohit Srinivasan Got it, Thanks a lot

almost 3 years

Subhajit Chaudhuri In a nutshell we are aiming these birds to sight & photograph - Sclaters Monal, Blyth’s Tragopan. Slender-billed Scimitar Babbler, Ward's Trogon, Grey-sided Laughingthrushes, Spotted Laughingthrushes, Black-faced Laughingthrushes, Gould's Shortwing, Rusty-bellied Shortwing, Fire-tailed Myzornis, Dark-rumped Rosefinch, Maroon Accentor, Plain-backed Thrush, Brown-throated Fulvetta and Manipur Fulvetta etc.

almost 3 years

Roshan Suresh Dream trip.. all the best for it.

almost 3 years

Subhajit Chaudhuri Thanks Roshan for your wish.

almost 3 years

Tanmay Keshav All the best! Anyone joining you for this yet?

almost 3 years

Rajan R D Great habitat shot Subhajit! It's such a shame how their count is going down

almost 4 years

Jason Thomas Beautiful picture! Are there more than 5? :)

Subhajit Chaudhuri Yes, but only 5 were visible. One hid behind left side bush.

Vineet Kurien Fantastic shot!

Mohit Srinivasan Wow. Never seen so many GIBs in 1 frame! Any idea what the present count is like (all over India)?

over 3 years

Subhajit Chaudhuri Thanks Mohit. As per census of 2015 , the number was less than 125. I'm not sure about numbers of from any recent count.

Mohit Srinivasan Just did a quick search. 250 in India and Pakistan together. From what I can see in the article,140 in Rajasthan and 30 odd in the other states. So this photo has like 3% of India's GIBs. Incredible (happy-sad). Source: https://goo.gl/KcYz9H

Charushil Ganar Amazing

Gulnar Vij Good shot

Nishant Parekh Good capture

Shikhar Parekh Amazing

Subhajit Chaudhuri Thanks all once again. It's good that we appreciate the need for conservation but we need to act as well. Preserving eggs for GIBs till they hatch are daunting task! And raising the youngs are tougher as well.

Arijit Kanani Wow.. amazing

Harshil D Indeed Subhajit. Great shot.. is this from Sudashri?

Sameer Vaid Great depiction of the habitat the GIB is found in.. the open countryside. Unfortunately, a lot of these grasslands are considered as 'wasteland' and given away for development projects

Subhajit Chaudhuri Sameer you are absolutely correct. Harshil, yes within DNP but somewhat far from Sudashri camp.

Raman Kishore Beautiful

Saurabh Kushwaha Super shot!

Ankur Malhotra Nice shot

Ankit Kumar Lovely freeze!

Melvin Dcosta Beautiful composition Subhajit

Apurva Jain Awesome

Subhajit Chaudhuri Thank you :-)

Anil Varma amazing catch

Rahul Bhattacharyya Good one

Arkadev P Superb

Edi Alva Lovely !

about 1 year

Gaurav Sinha Very shy bird indeed. Lovely sighting Subhajit

Arijit Kanani 8 pairs in the morning and 2 in the evening? Wow! Are they widely found in Khonoma or did you find them all in one particular area?

Subhajit Chaudhuri Thanks Gaurav & Arijit. Khonoma is best place in India to see this bird and few other endemics. We found those 8 pairs in a time span of 30-35 minutes and 5km patch of road. But they are quite widely spread in Nagaland as we heard several calls of them from various places.