Golden Triangle. The 1st day. Delhi.

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2013-12-25| Gennadiy Dyakin

Our journey in India is started. The tour mainly focuses on historical and cultural objects, but I hope to watch birds too. We arrived and accommodated in hotel at after lunch time. We went by taxi to Hamayun tomb until the end of day. The first bird I saw was Common Myna which was a lot around the tomb. Another common bird in this spot is House Crow but it is not Lifer to me too because I watched this bird in Malaysia. There were a lot of Black Kites in the sky. The first Lifer in India to me was Streaked Laughingthrush, one of the commonest Indian birds as I know later. The next Lifer was Common Peacock. It’s quite a strange to watch this bird in the center of megalopolis. Some times I noticed Rose-ringed Parakeets (in my opinion), but the bird I shot was the more rare Alexandrine Parakeet. Later when I view photos I found soaring Woolly-necked Stork among Kites. If I didn’t see Stork probably I didn’t watch other birds of prey among the hundreds of Kites. That’s all birds I recorded in park near Hamayun tomb.

Then we went to Lotus Temple. Only Laughing and Collared Doves were added to the trip-list. Akshardham Temple. Bank Myna (New Lifer) was added to trip-list. Also there are a lot of Rock Pigeons all around in the city. And all of them are in “wild” plumage, no one colored as our multicolor feral Pigeons.

It was dark. So during a half of day I recorded 11 species of birds. I hoped to larger number of species. But the list contains 5 Lifers.

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