Visit to Tilari Forest Reserve Nature Tour Report

Tilari Forest Reserve is an important wildlife corridor used by a variety of wild animals including Tigers and Elephants. The flora and fauna of this ecosystem is truly mesmerizing. There are very few fresh water wetland ecosystem known as Myristica Swamps that are thriving in the nature. ne can observe a small section of that in Tilari.

Group in-front of Dattarai - Private Grove , maintained by Vanoshi Homestay and NGO

Efforts of NGO and locals to preserve original wild species of trees from Western Ghats of Maharashtra is really commendable.

The bird diversity observed during nature outing is listed below

Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica

Asian Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica

Asian Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis

Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus

Blue-throated/Tickell's Blue Flycatcher Cyornis rubeculoides/tickelliae

Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus nanus

Brown-cheeked Fulvetta Alcippe poioicephala

Common Iora Aegithina tiphia

Crested Serpent-Eagle Spilornis cheela

Crimson-backed Sunbird Leptocoma minima

Eastern Cattle-Egret Ardea coromanda

Flame-throated Bulbul Rubigula gularis

Gray-fronted Green-Pigeon Treron affinis

Greater Coucal Centropus sinensis

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus

House Crow Corvus splendens

Indian Blackbird Turdus simillimus

Indian Golden Oriole Oriolus kundoo

Indian Paradise-Flycatcher Terpsiphone paradisi

Jerdon's Nightjar (call) Caprimulgus atripennis

Malabar Gray Hornbill Ocyceros griseus

Malabar Whistling-Thrush Myophonus horsfieldii

Orange-headed Thrush Geokichla citrina

Plum-headed Parakeet Psittacula cyanocephala

Purple Sunbird Cinnyris asiaticus

Purple-rumped Sunbird Leptocoma zeylonica

Red-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus cafer

Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus

Rufous Treepie Dendrocitta vagabunda

swift sp. Apodidae sp.

Thick-billed Flowerpecker Pachyglossa agilis

Tickell's Blue Flycatcher Cyornis tickelliae

White-rumped Shama Copsychus malabaricus

White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis

Photos Clicked by Mr. Roy