Its always fun to search those place for which maps, wikis won’t help. My last trip to Bihar, I decided to find out those bird sanctuary which are their in map but there is no feedback, no wiki, no information. I visited Asia’s largest freshwater oxbow lake – Kanwar Lake (Kanwar Bird Sanctuary) . I added whatever i knew about the place. Please visit the wiki of Kanwar lake as well.
I can just tell this is one of the must visit places if you are around Bihar for any reason and have interest in bird life. What is as clear as purified water, its huge, its drastic in view. Though a good part of it has been captured by local farmer and slum but they are helpful if you want to do boating or want to have fish curry :P.
I did some dramatic mistake in my camera setting, so pictures are not up to mark but still enjoy :).
A beautiful sunrise. Time when I reached to Kanwar Lake.
Some Olive backed Pipit
Yellow throated Sparrow – also called as Salim Ali’s bird.
Small Green Bee-eater – Pair
Ferruginous Duck – I reached quite earlier than the period when I can see the migrants but still some ..
Ferruginous Ducks
Ferruginous Duck – in flight
Greater spotted eagle chased by Black Drongo
Greater spotted eagle view
Little Cormorant in flight
Lesser Whistling Ducks ?
Red Napped IBIS
A close view of Red-napped IBIS
Red Napped IBIS – Juv
A view of grass land and Indian Roller 🙂
Pond Heron
Indian Spotted Eagle
Common coots in flight
White throated Kingfisher – You can see a bit different if you consider with the same species in south India
Crow chase to Greater spotted Eagle
Crow chase to Greater spotted Eagle
Cattle Egret
Greater Spotted Eagle
Yellow Throated Sparrow
Indian Roller
Common Myna
Ashy Drongo
Common Kestrel
Black Eagle
Siberian Stone Chat
Common Crow
Ashy Drongo
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Black Shouldered Kite
White Lotus
Common Tiger
Siberian Stone Chat
Brown Shrike
Pair of white eyed buzzard
White eyed buzzard
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Loved this post aboslutely!!!! How come you stumbled this place on map? I mean how did you find this place then?
Thanks a lot. Last time when I visited my home town, around the map I was seeing River Ganga and all the forest associated with it. Their I got this lake, which is developed by Ganga itself over period of time.
Localities there have lot of knowledge about bird and they assured me that in Jan/Feb season, you can see Sarus and many more migrated birds. I just loved the visibility of water. So clean that I am sure, Fish will have tough time hiding themselves.
This is an amazing place, Vaibhav! Such rich bird life! I loved the yellow throated sparrow and the Eurasian Sparrowhawk. Similar type of habitat exists in my husband’s home town as well. These are like hidden gems…
this is aamazing place for biard near my town