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ENDEMIC BIRDING TOUR
A five night birding tour to the lowland forests and high ranges of the Western Ghats. Tropical rain forests have a wealth of species living within them. In the hotspot areas visited on this tour there are 450 known bird species, of which 16 are endemic. Birds that you may encounter on this tour include: nightjars, frogmouths, owls (including the pot-bellied eagle-owl and bay owl), woodpeckers (including white-bellied, heart-spotted and streak-throated), yellow-billed babbler, red spur fowl, blue-bearded bee-eater, Malabar grey hornbill, rufous babbler, blue-faced malkoha, black-throated munia, white-bellied tree pie, flycatchers (Nilgiri, black and rufous, brown-breasted, white-bellied blue-tailed and rusty-tailed), grey-headed bulbul, Nilgiri pipit, Nilgiri wood pigeon, painted bush quail, Wayanad laughing thrush and grey-breasted laughing thrush.

This tour gives you three nights at Thattekkad (accommodation at Hornbill Camp) and two nights at Munnar. The price includes full board accommodation, car transfers, entry fees to parks and sanctuaries and a birding guide for the whole trip.

Rates
(for the season starting 1 October 2011 through to 30 September 2012)

Suggested adaptations to this tour

Mid Range £606.00
  • The prices given are based on a typical high season price. During the peak season the rates will be higher; during the summer they may be lower.
  • The prices above are per person based on two people travelling together and sharing a double/twin room.
  • Please note that our prices do not include the costs of international flights to and from the destination. Airfares are on application.
  • Prices for single occupancy, more than two people travelling together, adaptations to the suggested tours and tailor-made tours on application.
 

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