Goa, India - 12th November to 26th November 2018

Great photos Russell and having travelled 9 times in most areas of India over the past 45 years , your experience is normal,
and I,ve seen and experienced worse , but its still a great birding country and experience , especially in the north east and the Himalayas.

regards John

With Garry Wright, Paul & Sandra Neale, Andy and Pauline Burgess, Andy and Sally from Grantham,
Flying with TUI from Birmingham on a Dreamliner 787.
Staying at the Marinha Dourada Hotel in Arpora and 3 nights at backwoods camp in the Western Ghats.
Forgot to take ear plugs for the car horns that are constant, the drivers are mad, cows and dogs on the roads, litter and small fires everywhere.
Away from the people the countryside is nice and we saw several Indian Bison, Water Buffalo, Monkeys, Muggar Crocodiles, Spotted Deer, Giant Squirells, Palm Squirells, Fruit bats, Snakes, Frogs and Lizards.
We had guides for a few days and had two boat trips on the Zuari River besides the 3 nights guided tour around backwoods camp. Any spare time we hired a taxi and birded locally. One of the highlights was an Oriental Pratincole which we believe is a rare bird in Goa.
Lowlights was finding tree frogs under our pillows at Backwoods camp and being an unwilling blood donor to a leach.

249 Birds seen below, 178 life ticks for myself.

1 Lesser Whistling-duck
2 Ruddy Shelduck
3 Cotton Pygmy Goose

4 Northern Shoveler
5 Garganey
6 Eurasian Teal
7 Grey Junglefowl
8 Indian Peafowl
9 Little Grebe
10 Asian Openbill
11 Woolly-necked Stork
12 Lesser Adjutant
13 Black-headed Ibis
14 Glossy Ibis
15 Eurasian Spoonbill
16 Chestnut Bittern
17 Black-crowned Night-heron
18 Striated Heron

19 Indian Pond-heron
20 Eastern Cattle Egret
21 Grey Heron
22 Purple Heron
23 Great Egret
24 Intermediate Egret

25 Little Egret
26 Western Reef-heron
27 Little Cormorant
28 Indian Shag
29 Great Cormorant
30 Oriental Darter
31 Osprey
32 Oriental Honey Buzzard
33 Short-toed Eagle
34 Changeable Hawk-eagle
35 Legge's Hawk-eagle
36 Rufous-bellied Eagle
37 Indian Spotted Eagle
38 Greater Spotted Eagle
39 Booted Eagle
40 Bonelli's Eagle
41 Shikra
42 Besra Sparrowhawk
43 Western Marsh Harrier
44 Black Kite
45 Black-eared Kite
46 Brahminy Kite

47 White-bellied Sea-eagle
48 White-breasted Waterhen
49 Grey-headed Swamphen
50 Common Moorhen
51 Eurasian Coot
52 Barred Buttonquail
53 Eurasian Oystercatcher
54 Black-winged Stilt
55 Red-wattled Lapwing
56 Pacific Golden Plover
57 Common Ringed Plover
58 Kentish Plover
59 Lesser Sand Plover
60 Greater Sand Plover

61 Bronze-winged Jacana
62 Common Snipe
63 Western Black-tailed Godwit
64 Eurasian Curlew
65 Spotted Redshank
66 Common Redshank
67 Marsh Sandpiper
68 Common Greenshank
69 Green Sandpiper
70 Wood Sandpiper
71 Common Sandpiper
72 Ruff
73 Temminck's Stint
74 Sanderling
75 Dunlin
76 Little Stint
77 Oriental Pratincole
78 Small Pratincole

79 Slender-billed Gull
80 Brown-headed Gull
81 Heuglin's Gull
82 Gull-billed Tern
83 Caspian Tern

84 Lesser-crested Tern
85 Sandwich Tern
86 River Tern
87 Rock Pigeon
88 Nilgiri Woodpigeon
89 Spotted Dove
90 Emerald Dove
91 Grey-fronted Green-pigeon
92 Mountain Imperial Pigeon
93 Southern Coucal
94 Blue-faced Malkoha
95 Asian Koel

96 Common Cuckoo
97 Common Barn Owl
98 Oriental Scops-owl
99 Jungle Owlet
100 Spotted Owlet
101 Brown Hawk Owl
102 Ceylon Frogmouth
103 Indian Jungle Nightjar
104 Jerdon's Nightjar
105 Crested Treeswift
106 Indian Swiftlet
107 Little Swift
108 Malabar Trogon
109 Indian Roller

110 Stork-billed Kingfisher
111 White-throated Kingfiaher
112 Black-capped Kingfisher
113 Collared Kingfisher
114 Common Kingfisher
115 Pied Kingfisher
116 Blue-bearded Bee-eater
117 Green Bee-eater

118 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
119 Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
120 Common Hoopoe
121 Great Pied Hornbill
122 Malabar Pied Hornbill
123 Malabar Grey Hornbill
124 Brown-headed Barbet
125 White-cheeked Barbet
126 Coppersmith Barbet

127 Malabar Barbet
128 Eurasian Wryneck
129 Speckled Piculet
130 Heart-spotted Woodpecker
131 Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
132 White-bellied Woodpecker
133 Black-rumped Flameback
134 Greater Flameback
135 Rufous Woodpecker
136 Common Kestrel
137 Amur Falcon
138 Peregrine Falcon
139 Plum-headed Parakeet
140 Malabar Parakeet
141 Alexandrine Parakeet
142 Rose-ringed Parakeet
143 Vernal's Hanging Parrot
144 Indian Pitta
145 Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
146 Common Woodshrike
147 Ashy Woodswallow

148 Common Iora
149 Black-headed Cuckoo-shrike
150 Small Minivet
151 Orange Minivet
152 Brown Shrike
153 Long-tailed Shrike

154 Indian Golden Oriole
155 Black-naped Oriole
156 Black-hooded Oriole
157 Black Drongo
158 Ashy Drongo
159 White-bellied Drongo
160 Bronzed Drongo
161 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
162 White-spotted Fantail
163 Black-naped Blue Monarch
164 Asian Paradise Flycatcher
165 Rufous Treepie
166 House Crow
167 Indian Jungle Crow
168 Oriental Skylark
169 Malabar lark
170 Grey-headed Bulbul
171 Flame-throated Bulbul

172 Red-whiskered Bulbul
173 Red-vented Bulbul
174 White-browed Bulbul
175 Yellow-browed Bulbul
176 Square-tailed Black Bulbul
177 Barn Swallow
178 Wire-tailed Swallow
179 Dusky Crag martin
180 Red-rumped swallow
181 Green Warbler
182 Greenish Warbler
183 Western Crowned Warbler
184 Indian reed warbler
185 Paddyfield Warbler
186 Blyth's Reed Warbler
187 Booted Warbler
188 Sykes's warbler
189 Zitting Cisticola
190 Ashy Prinia
191 Plain Prinia
192 Common Tailorbird
193 Indian Scimitar-babbler
194 Dark-fronted Babbler
195 Brown-cheeked Fulvetta
196 Puff-throated Babbler
197 Jungle Babbler
198 Siberian Lesser Whitethroat
199 Asian Fairy-bluebird
200 Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
201 Jungle Myna
202 Common Myna
203 Chestnut-tailed Starling

204 Brahminy Starling
205 Rosy Starling
206 Orange-headed Thrush
207 Indian Blackbird
208 Indian Black Robin
209 Oriental magpie Robin
210 White-rumped Shama
211 Asian Brown Flycatcher
212 Brown-breasted Flycatcher
213 White-bellied Blue Flycatcher
214 Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
215 Verditer Flycatcher
216 Indian Blue Robin
217 Bluethroat
218 Malabar Whistling-thrush
219 Red-breasted Flycatcher
220 Taiga Flycatcher
221 Blue-capped Rock Thrush
222 Siberian Stonechat
223 Pied Bushchat
224 Golden-fronted Leafbird
225 Thick-billed Flowerpecker
226 Pale-billed Flowerpecker
227 Nilgiri Flowerpecker
228 Purple-rumped Sunbird
229 Crimson-backed Sunbird

230 Purple Sunbird
231 Loten's Sunbird
232 Vigor's Sunbird
233 Little Spiderhunter
234 House Sparrow
235 Indian Baya Weaver
236 White-rumped Munia
237 Scaly-breasted Munia
238 Black-throated Munia
239 Forest Wagtail
240 Western Yellow Wagtail
241 Citrine Wagtail
242 Grey Wagtail
243 White-browed wagtail
244 Paddyfield Pipit
245 Tree Pipit
246 Black-headed Bunting
247 Red-headed Bunting
248 Oriental White Eye
249 Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher

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