| Trip Details |
| Location: | Satpuda Botanical Garden and Telandkhedi Lake |
| Observer: | Dr. Tarique Sani |
| Trip Date: | Aug 13, 2005 From 07:30:00 To 09:30:00 |
| Total Species Seen: | 53 |
| Notes From Observer: | Today we took a group of 60 children aged between 10 to 14 years along with six teachers and the Director of Sandipani school, Mrs. Vijaya Dhande for a bird walk in the Satpuda Botanical Garden. The program was organised as a part of school activity of Sandipani school and jointly managed by Myself and Tarique Sani from Nagpur Birds and Mr Jayesh Paranjape from Kids for Tigers.
After being instructed on the basics of bird watching the children were split into three groups of about 20 each along with 2 teachers per group.
We walked around the park and the lake side for next 90 minutes enjoying the birds which are almost always there in large numbers.
the highlight of the walk was spotting of 4 Black-crowned Night Heron and a Black Bittern(?) am putting a question mark mainly because we still dont have a picture but all the three groups saw it separately and could describe it in details. It may be noted that Black Bittern (like Cinnamon and Yellow Bittern) is not listed as being found in Nagpur.
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| Bird list for the trip |
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| Grebes, Cormorants | | Little Cormorant | Little Grebe (Dabchick) | | | Herons, Egrets, Storks | | Black Bittern | Black-crowned Night Heron | Cattle Egret | | Cinnamon (chestnut) Bittern | Indian Pond Heron | Little Egret | | Purple Heron | Yellow Bittern | | | Ibises, Ducks, Geese | | Cotton Pygmy-goose (Cotton Teal or Quacky Duck) | | | | Birds of Prey | | Black-shouldered (Black-Winged) Kite | | | | Rails, Crakes | | Common Coot | Purple Swamphen | | | Jacanas, Snipes, Sandpipers | | Red-wattled Lapwing | | | | Gulls, Terns, Sandgrouse | | River (Indian River) Tern | | | | Pigeons, Doves | | Laughing (Little Brown or Senegal) Dove | Rock (Blue) Pigeon | Spotted Dove | |
| Parakeets | | Alexandrine Parakeet | Plum-headed (Blossom-headed) Parakeet | Rose ringed (Ring-necked) Parakeet. | |
| Cuckoos | | Asian Koel | Greater Coucal (Crow Pheasant or Coucal) | | | Owls, Nightjars | | Spotted Owlet | | | | Swifts | | House Swift. | | | | Kingfishers | | White-throated (White-breasted) Kingfisher | | | | Bee-Eaters | | Blue-tailed Bee-eater | Green Bee-eater | | | Barbets, Woodpeckers | | Coppersmith (Crimson-breasted) Barbet | | | | Swallows | | Dusky Crag Martin | Streak-throated (Indian Cliff) Swallow | | | Shrikes, Orioles, Drongos | | Black Drongo (King-crow) | Long-tailed (Rufous-backed) Shrike | | | Starlings (Mynas) | | Asian Pied Starling (Pied Myna) | Brahminy Starling (Brahminy Myna) | Common Myna | |
| Crows, Treepies | | House Crow. | | | | Ioras, Leafbirds, Bulbuls | | Red-vented Bulbul | | | | Babblers | | Common Babbler | Jungle Babbler | Yellow-eyed Babbler | |
| Warblers | | Ashy Prinia (Wren-warbler) | Plain Prinia (Wren-warbler) | | | Chats, Thrushes | | Indian Robin | Oriental Magpie Robin | Pied Bushchat | |
| Pipits, Wagtails | | White (Pied) Wagtail | | | | Flowerpeckers, Sunbirds | | Purple Sunbird | | | | Sparrows, Buntings | | Baya Weaver | House Sparrow | Indian (Common) Silverbill (White-throated Munia) | | Scaly-breasted Munia |
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