India – The Little Rann of Kutch

Desert habitat, while beautiful in its own right, looks amazingly barren upon first glance. The truth is, it is quite barren, at least relatively speaking. You can scan out into the distance and see nothing more than a blue sky above, a brown, cracked Earth below, and a mirage of what appears to be an …

India – Siana – Where Ross hits 6,000

Ross Gallardy will be the first to tell you that 6,000 life birds isn't a real milestone. Six thousand is just another number on the way to seeing the birds of the world. It's something that happens when you've found yourself on a few corners of this blue planet chasing after those charismatic creatures with …

India – Jaisalmer – THE Great Indian Bustard

This whole trip to India started because of one particular bird but along the way we had been birding a few locations (here and here) searching for range-restricted endemics working our way towards the number one target. But the time to tick the number one target had finally come. I hate to paint such a depressing picture, …

India – Tal Chappar

After a long drive, a few snacks for dinner, another night in an adequate but far from clean hotel, and an hour more of driving in the early morning, we arrived at our morning birding location about an hour southeast of Tal Chappar. As you know, we were independently birding Western India, stopping at a few known …

India – Harike – Indian Beginnings

As you probably read in my last post, we were birding India with a few friends. The fact that it was the wee hours of the morning when we met up with our birding compadres at the airport probably worked to our benefit as we exited India's largest and most bustling city, New Deli, with …

Headed to India

A few days ago I was talking on the phone with my sister and in the middle of our conversation I mentioned that I needed to pack. “Pack for what?” she says and I reply “India.” Immediately she starts saying “WHAT? You’re going to India?! You didn’t tell me that!” Surely I did. Didn’t I? My …