Join us as we explore the amazing biodiversity of Tilari Forest Homestay with Advait World, a leading wildlife tour operator in India. We spent five days (from 20-02-2024 to 24-02-2024) in this beautiful location, enjoying the local food, culture, and nature. We saw 112 species of birds as follows:
1 Gray Junglefowl
2 Red Spurfowl(Call)
3 Indian Peafowl
4 Asian Openbill
5 Indian Pond-Heron
6 Cattle Egret
7 Little Egret
8 Little Cormorant
9 Common Kestrel
10 Black-shouldered Kite Winged
11 Black Kite
12 Brahminy kite
13 Oriental Hunny Buzzard
14 Black Eagle
15 Crested Serpant Eagle
16 Red-wattled lapwing
17 Common Sandpiper
18 River Tern
19 Common Pigeon
20 Spotted Dove
21 Grey Fronted Green pigeon
22 Emerald Dove
23 Rose-Ringed Parakeet
24 Plum headed Parakeet
25 Asian Koel
26 Grater coucal
27 Jungle Owlet
28 Brown Fish owl
29 Brown Wood Owl
30 Sri Lanka Frogmouth
31 Jerdon's Nightjar
32 Crested Treeswift
33 Little Swift
34 Malabar Trogon
35 Indian Roller
36 Stork-billed Kingfisher
37 White-throated Kingfisher
38 Common Kingfisher
39 Pied Kingfisher
40 Asian Green Bee-eater
41 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
42 Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
43 Malabar Gray Hornbill
44 Malabar Pied-Hornbill
45 Great Hornbill
46 White-cheeked Barbet
47 Coppersmith Barbet
48 Rufous-bellied Woodpecker
49 Black-rumped Flameback (Lesser Goldenbacked Woodpecker)
50 Malabar Flameback
51 Common Woodshrike
52 Black Cuckooshrike
53 Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
54 Common Iora
55 Small Minivet
56 Orange Minivet
57 Isabelline shrike
58 Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
59 Hair-crested drongo
60 Black Drongo
61 Ashy Drongo
62 Bronzed drongo
63 Indian golden oriole
64 Black-hooded oriole
65 Indian Paradise-Flycatcher
66 Black-naped monarch
67 Large-billed crow
68 House Crow
69 Red-rumped Swallow
70 Barn Swallow
71 Wire-tailed Swallow
72 Flame-throated Bulbul
73 Red-whiskered Bulbul
74 Red-vented Bulbul
75 Yellow-browed Bulbul
76 Grey-breasted Prinia
77 Common Tailorbird
78 Blyth's Reed Warbler
79 Green Warbler
80 Westen Crowned Warbler
81 Large-billed Leaf Warbler
82 Puff-throated Babbler
83 Indian Scimitar-Babbler
84 Jungle Babbler
85 Brown-cheeked Fulvetta
86 Malabar Whistling-Thrush
87 Orange-headed Thrush
88 Indian Blackbird
89 Oriental Magpie-Robin
90 Indian Robin
91 White-rumped Shama
92 Brown-breasted Flycatcher
93 Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
94 Blue-throated Flycatcher
95 White-bellied Blue Flycatcher
96 Verditer Flycatcher
97 Golden-fronted Leafbird
98 Thick-billed Flowerpecker
99 Nilgiri Flowerpecker
100 Purple-rumped Sunbird
101 Crimson-backed Sunbird
102 Purple Sunbird
103 Loten's Sunbird
104 Little Spiderhunter
105 Baya Weaver
106 White-rumped Munia
107 Forest Wagtail
108 White-browed Wagtail
109 Long-tailed Shrike
110 Vernal Hanging-Parrot
111 White-naped Woodpecker (Call)
112 Rufous Treepie
We also encountered the Indian giant squirrel, a rare and colorful rodent that can leap up to 20 feet between trees. Watch our video to see some of the highlights of our trip and learn more about the wildlife of this region.
We would like to thank our hosts, organizers, and guides for making this trip possible and memorable. They are:
Advait World: Ratnadeep Patil
Vanoshi Forest Home Stay: Pravin Desai
Nature Guide - Advait World: Ramesh Shenai
Nature Guide - Vanoshi: Abhishek Rane
Nature Guide at Sindhudurg: Pravin Satoskar
click on the following Ebird link of Mr. Ramesh Senai for more details:
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