Photos of birds
Unfinished - need book of Indian Birds

Tour dates: 18 Feb to 6 Mar 2005.
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Keoladeo Ghana National Park

Wetlands popular with wading birds.
 
You ride through the park on cycle rickshaws

No doubt the rickshaw drivers vary
 
Ours was a superman

During dry weather the wetlands are maintained
by well water

Picturesque birds

Looking good

Silhouetted over the water

Less-attractive birds

Sitting huddled and dumpy in the trees.

Fishing

 
Wading in the water

curved necks ready to thrust

or just digesting the last fish.

Kingfishers

 
Hammering the living daylights out of some poor fish

or waiting for the next victim.

Owls

 
Sleepy in the daylight

sitting quietly in their nests.

Birds from other parks

Everywhere you go there are parakeets

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Eagles

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Peacocks

Every park we visited had peacocks

Exotics for us Europeans, but dead boring for the locals

Plovers

Why do they like standing in the middle of the road?

Storks

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Vultures

Resting in trees

Eating anything going

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Last updated 17.9.2006