Birding Tour India: Rajasthan – Monsoon Specialties

This small-group birdwatching tour through Rajasthan, India, is timed during the monsoon season to target a suite of birds more difficult, or not possible at all, at other times of the year. This tour starts and ends in New Delhi and takes a circuit around the state, looking for the following major targets: Great Indian Bustard, Lesser Florican, Indian Pitta, Bristled Grassbird, Indian Courser, Rock Bush Quail, Rain Quail, Painted Francolin, Green Avadavat, Sind Sparrow, and Indian Spotted Creeper.

Lesser Florican is one of the main targets of this monsoon-season tour (photo V. Mishra).

Along the way while looking for the above main target birds we will also find plenty of other interesting birds, such as Black-necked Stork, Sarus Crane, Spotted Sandgrouse, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Cream-colored Courser, Indian Spotted Eagle, Indian Eagle-Owl, Jacobin Cuckoo, Striated Babbler, Bengal Bush Lark, Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark, and Desert Lark, and other wildlife including Indian Leopard and Blackbuck.