We were trundling along a dusty semi-desert countryside when suddenly two birds flew across the road. The Family and I said simultaneously “Black-headed Ibis.” We stopped the auto and saw that behind the rocky wall on the left was a large but shallow lake. This was full of birds. Northern India, even the arid region of Jodhpur, is full of winter visitors. We got in an unexpected bit of bird watching, with multiple lifers.
The lake was Devkund, a part of the Rao Jodha desert park. Later we had an interesting lifer elsewhere in the same park. My lifers are marked in bold-face in the list below. Amazing that we had two lifers in a place where we were not aware that there was birding! Our bird list would have been longer if we had binoculars with us.
- Black-headed Ibis
- Common coot
- Gadwall
- Eurasian wigeon
- Mallard
- Common teal
- Great cormorant
- Little cormorant
- Common pochard
- Knob-billed duck
- Black-winged stilt
- Little grebe
- Egrets
- Red-wattled lapwing
- Red-vented bulbul
- Jungle babbler
- Indian robin
- Purple sunbird
- Black kite
- Long-legged buzzard
- Blue rock pigeon
- Eurasian scops owl
Nice collection! This place looks like a bird haven.
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It is. Thanks.
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