one day and weekend trips for business visitors on a tight schedule.
Bangalore is a short drive from the Western Ghats in South India where many endemics are found.
We do our best to ensure that our trips are environment-friendly and socially responsible. A percentage of our revenue goes back to the local communities at the birding sites to ensure that the locals view conservation as a profitable venture.
It is also the closest International Airport for access to the Ranganathittu bird Sanctuary, Bannerghatta National Park, Rajiv Gandhi National Park (Nagarhole), Mudhumalai National Park (Bandipur/Masinagudi) and Kabini.
We are a team of experienced guides and will go out of our way to ensure that our clients have a great birding experience. Based on your preferences we can tailor-make a trip for you.
You will be picked up at a venue of your choice in Bangalore and dropped back at the end of the outing.
Depending on the species you would like to view, we will suggest locations and use the appropriate vehicle 2WD/4WD for the trip so that walking will be minimised.
Karnataka is the third largest state in peninsular India. It is surrounded by Maharashtra to the north, Goa and the Arabian Sea to the west, Andhra Pradesh to the east and Tamil Nadu and Kerala to the south. The Capital is Bangalore, which is the most cosmopolitan city with Mysore, Mangalore and Hubli being other major cities. Kannada is the principal language, although there is a sizeable population of Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Konkani and Hindi speaking people. English is the lingua franca helping the people from diverse cultural backgrounds to communicate freely.
The state is blessed with one of the best forested regions of the country (more than 32,000sq km of forest cover). These are the Western Ghats, running parallel to the Arabian Sea coast on the west, along the length of the state. The tri-state junction in the south forms the Nilgiri Bio-sphere Reserve, one of the top global bio-diversity hotspots, and it also hosts a handful of national parks, mostly in the southern parts of the state. The rest of the state, on the eastern side, is a flat plain comprising the Deccan Plateau. Altitudes vary from sea level on the western coast to about 300m in most of the north & north-east, about 600m in most of the south and south-east and 900m+ towards the south-east side where the Western Ghats begin. The state is blessed with a coastline of approximately 270km (Mangalore-Karwar) dotted with some of the finest beaches and sacred religious places. Numerous rivers like the Krishna, Tungabhadra, Netravati, Kalinadi and Pennar enrich the state with their perennial flow as most of them originate in the Western Ghats. The state is also well developed industrially and has many universities offering education at all levels.
The state enjoys a quite long winter and is a frequent stopover point for winter migrants. Bar-headed Geese can been seen in very big flocks in Mysore and some regions of north Karnataka. Karnataka also plays host to a large number of winter breeders like the Painted Stork, White Ibis, etc. Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary, situated about 80Kms from Mysore is one of the most active nesting areas.
