Kerala Bird Tour Western Ghats

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Day 1

Arrive Cochin, assistance upon arrival later transfer to hotel. Overnight hotel on B&B
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Transfer to Thattekad Birding site. Stay for night at jungle lodge.
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Thattekkad: - Dr Salem Ali Bird Sanctuary

Reach Thattekkad at early. Thattekkad is a birder’s paradise in Kerala, Southern India. Around two hundred seventy plus species are found in a small area of twenty five square kilometers. Nocturnal birding offers sighting of Night jars, Frog mouths & various species of Owls. Chief attractions are Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl, Ceylon Frog Mouth, Bay Owls, Red Spurfowl, Tawny Babbler, Brwon Breasted Flycatcher, Blue-faced Malkoha, White-bellied flycatchers, Blue-tailed Flycatchers and Rusty-tailed Flycatcher, Grey-headed Bulbul and Wynad Laughing Thrush. At Thattekkad in Western Ghat sight rare endemic species. Checklist aquila eagles, owls, Streak throated Woodpeckers, Malabar Grey Hornbill and Yellow-billed Babbler. Checklist Heart Spotted Wood pecker, Blue-bearded Bee-eater and White-bellied Wood pecker. These are common - White-bellied Treepie and Blackthroated Munia. Over night at the Hornbill Camp
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Munnar. Reach afternoon
Munnar iat 1450 meters is famous hill resort. It is also home to many rare animals and birds - Nilgiri Tahr, Nilgiri Wood-Pigeon, Nilgiri Flycatcher, Grey-breasted Laughing Thrush, Black-and-Rufous Flycatcher, White-bellied Shortwing, Nilgiri Pipits, Painted Bush Quails. There are patches of dense evergreen forests called sholas on  either side of the plateau of the Nilgiri Hills at Rajamalai about eight kilometer from Munnar and part of the Eravikulam National Park. Munnar has plenty of tea gardens hence habitat diversity results in interesting avifauna.  Overnight Stay at Olive Brooke Resort.
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Ooty
On the way Ooty hill resort we breal at Chinnar at about 60 km from Munnar. It is a thorny scrub forest in of the Western Ghats. The avian species sighted are Rain Quail, Large Grey Babblers, Blue breasted quail,  White-bellied woodpercker, and White naped Woodpecker, White Rumped Shama, Migrant Lesser Whitethroat, Jerdon's Baza, Black Baza, Speckled Piculet, Blue-bearded Bee-eater, Sirkeer Malkoha, Oriental Scops Owls, Eurasian Eagle Owl, Streak throated Swallows and Grey breasted Laughing Thrush.

At Ooty bird watching at Cairnhill shoal, Kallatti Ghats will end our day at Masingudi. Overnight Stay: Regency Villa.
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Drive to Cochin, day free or have local sight seeing overnight hotel on B&B
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Transfer to international airport
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Note

Highlights

9 Nights in Hotels/lodges
Includes all meals
dedicated Birding guide
Airport pick up & drop

Transport

Dedicated air conditioned car with driver

Group Size

Approx. 1 to 12

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