Flamingo City : Greater Flamingo and Lesser Flamingo are observed here in thousands when water is in plenty. Innumerable number of waders - Ruff and Reeve, Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, Sandpipers, Shanks, Temmink's Stint, Little Stint, Black-winged Stilt, Curlew, Plovers, Lapwings, Common Snipe etc. Terns are also in numbers - River Tern, Whiskered Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Little Tern, Black-bellied Tern. Common Crane has been reported. Northern Shovelers are the maximum, others include Northern Pintail, Gadwall, Eurasian Wigeon, Common Teal, Garganey Teal, Whistling Duck, Great-crested Grebe (spotted once), Egret, Herons, Ibis, Spoonbill, Storks.
Black-shouldered Kite, Black Kite, Marsh Harrier, Hen Harrier, Common Kestrel, Laggar Falcon, Bonelli's Eagle, Steppe Eagle, White-eye Buzzard, Shikra and Sparrow Hawk are observed.
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Indian Courser |
Sambhar is a Flamingo city. |
Indian Courser : Indian Courser is often sighted. Parakeets, Doves, Pigeon, Shrikes, Desert Wheatear, Drongo, Chats, Bee-eaters, Starlings, Mynas, Swallows, Swifts, Martins, Bulbuls, Prinias, Warblers, Tailor Bird, Babblers, Larks, Purple Sunbird, Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits are among other species commonly found. Bluebull number is increasing in the area.
Some fresh water bodies around Sambhar have in store remarkable surprises as speciality species, recorded by the hosts; all additional information is to be shared with guests, over email, fax or telephone.
Adam's Report : A noted British civil servant, R.M. Adams (19th century) undertook survey of Sambhar to record 244 species of birds. In his report, he wrote, "Dense masses of flamingos are to be seen everywhere swimming or wading in the lake-bed, flying over head, bearing 'the rich hues of all glorious things' or stalking sedately along the edge in search of food. This latter process is a wonderful sight. Long lines of big and little birds, of all shades of plumage, from the gorgeous rose-coloured adult to the dingy brown and white young, march along, and invariably here from west to east, all wagging their down-bent heads in search of the animalcules with which the brackish water abounds. If 'Alice in Wonderland' after her game of crocuet with the Flamingo for a mallet could have seen such a sight, she would have been sorely puzzled to account for the gigantic game which was apparently going on amongst the mallets on their own account."
