Banni Nature Tour Report

Banni, an unique Landscape and flourishing grassland! OikoEssence organized a Nature tour to Banni, Greater Rann of Kutch. The area has a diversity habitats and dynamic pattern changes with changing  climatic conditions provide rich habitats for variety of animal, especially birds. 

A list of birds and Mammals that were sighted during our visit is given below.

1. House sparrow

2. Petronea

3. House crow

4. Jungle crow

5. Collered dove

6. Laughing dove

7. Blue rock pigeon

8. White cheek bulbul

9. Red vented bulbul 

10. Green bee eater

11. White throated kingfisher

12. Common kingfisher

13. Black drongo

14. Rudy shelduck

15. Indian spot billed

16. Common teal

17. Little greeb

18. Northen pintail

19. Northen shoveler

20. Painted strock

21. Greater flamingo

22. Glossy ibis

23. Eurasian spoonbill

24. Pond heron

25. Purple heron 

26. Grey heron

27. Greater egret

28. Little egret

29. Great white pelican

30. Dalmetian pelican

31. Little cormorant 

32. Greater cormorant

33. Common crestal

34. Black winged kite

35. Creasted serpant eagle

36. Eurasian marsh harrier

37. Shikra

38. Long legged buzard

39. White breasted waterhen

40. Purple swamphen

41. Common moorhen

42. Demoiselle crane

43. Black winged stilt

44. Red wattled lapwing

45. Little ringed plover

46. Common snipe

47. Black winged godwit

48. Bar tailed godwit

49. Euracian curlew

50. Common greenshank

51. Common sandpiper

52. Tern

53. Greater coucil

54. Indian eagle owl

55. Nightjar

56. Swift

57. Common hoopoe

58. Indian roller

59. Blue cheeked bee eater

60. Long tailed shrike

61. Bay backed shrike

62. Wire tailed swallow

63. Barn swallow

64. Greated short toed lark

65. Ashy crown sparrow lark

66. Creasted lark

67. Common tailor bird

68. Common babbler

69. Jungle babbler

70. Common myna

71. Rosy starling

72. Purple sunbird

73. Indian robbin

74. Magpie robin

75. Common stonechat

76. Pied bushchat

77. Variable wheater

78. Desert wheater

79. Baya weaver

80. Silver billed 

81. Yellow wagtail

82. Booted Eagle

Mandvi beach:

83. Eurasian thick knee

84. Flamingo

85. Kentish plover

86. Sand plover

87. Crab plover?

88. Gulls

89. Terns

90. Western reef egrets

Mammals:

1. Hanuman Langur

2. Asiatic Wildcat

3. Jackal

4. Indian mongoose

5. Indian desert Jird

Crested Lark

Crest

Pied Bushchat Male

Laughing dove

Dholavira - an archeological site 

Northen Pintail

Booted eagle

Flamingo juvenile

Indian desert Jird

Ashy crowned sparrow lark

Indian eagle owl

Pied Bushchat female

Citrine Wagtail