Earth Walks At Haiderpur Wetland

Earth Walks At Haiderpur Wetland, Bijnore

A Trip Report By Mahesh Rajpoot

Asian Adventures - India

Dec 04, 2022
Participants: Mahesh Rajpoot, Salil Dutta, Roshan Tanwar, Rohit Sharma, Ashish Gujjar 

The Haiderpur wetland, part of the Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh, is simply an amazing birding destination, and perfect for our Earth Walks. 

We started our journey from Delhi quite early, at 4:30 AM, carrying a packed breakfast. It is usually a 3 hour journey but we arrived quite late because of the fog. The wetland was not visible because it covered by fog or mist. We started our birding quite late with Ashish, who is a local guide in the area. 

We first went to the grassland, where we saw Yellow-eyed Babbler, Rosy Pipit in flight, Ashy Prinia, Long-tailed Shrike, Red Avadavat and many flying Red-rumped Swallows. This area is outside the park, where farmers visit their cultivation fields daily. 

After spending time in the grassland, we entered the park. It was a nice walk on the birding trail, and we saw thousands of water birds, including Bar-headed and Greylag Geese, Red-crested, Common and Ferruginous Pochard, Eurasian Wigeon, Great Crested and Little Grebe and many Cormorants. 

There were few Greater Spotted Eagles soaring in the sky along with a single Black Kite. After some time, a mixed hunting flock seen came quite close: a Black-hooded Oriole catching caterpillars and a Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker was busy on the trunk along other species like Red-whiskered Bulbul, Long-tailed Minivet, Purple Sunbird and Common Chiffchaff etc. 

After this, we had lunch and took a boat safari in the Ganges River. This boat safari was marvellous because we spotted a super rare Gangetic Dolphin which was coming up a few times from the water to take a breath. The sighting was super, and we clicked some record photos. Besides the dolphin, we also saw got some good photographs of Palllas’s Gull, Black-headed Gull, Brown-headed Gull, Great Thick-knee, many Black Kites, Pied Kingfisher, Little and Great Cormorants, River Lapwing, a pair of Ruddy Shelduck, many Wagtails etc. 

After the boat safari, we also saw Common Cranes in flight. As it was getting close to sunset, we spent some time taking a few sunset photos, before leaving for Delhi.

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Haiderpur Wetlands and Bijnor Barrage -- General Area

9:13 AM

Traveling

2.05 km

32 minutes

All birds reported? Yes

Comments:

80 Eurasian Collared-Dove -- In foggy morning, they were on trees

1 Spotted Dove

2 Greater Coucal

2 Oriental Darter

2 Black-crowned Night-Heron

1 White-throated Kingfisher

1 Rufous Treepie

10 House Crow

8 Large-billed Crow (Indian Jungle)

1 Striated Grassbird

1 Hume's Warbler

2 Common Chiffchaff

2 Greenish Warbler

2 Scaly-breasted Munia

10 Red Avadavat

3 White-browed Wagtail

Haiderpur Farming Ponds

Dec 04, 2022

11:53 AM

Traveling

12.66 km

124 minutes

All birds reported? Yes

Comments:

41 Bar-headed Goose

49 Graylag Goose

56 Northern Shoveler

186 Gadwall

36 Eurasian Wigeon

6 Indian Spot-billed Duck

9 Northern Pintail

41 Red-crested Pochard

56 Common Pochard

38 Ferruginous Duck

45 Tufted Duck

4 Indian Peafowl

3 Little Grebe

2 Great Crested Grebe

19 Eurasian Collared-Dove

5 Spotted Dove

2 Greater Coucal

86 Eurasian Coot

3 White-breasted Waterhen

1 Common Crane

2 Black-winged Stilt

8 Red-wattled Lapwing

17 Black-headed Gull

4 Brown-headed Gull

7 Pallas's Gull

1 River Tern

9 Oriental Darter

8 Little Cormorant

16 Great Cormorant

1 Gray Heron

1 Purple Heron

3 Cattle Egret

1 Indian Pond-Heron

2 Black-crowned Night-Heron

2 Oriental Honey-buzzard

1 Crested Serpent-Eagle

3 Greater Spotted Eagle -- Big head, brown dark body with short tail. A big size raptor flying in the sky........ Seen well and photographed

2 Eurasian Hoopoe

2 White-throated Kingfisher

1 Gray-capped Pygmy Woodpecker -- A Small size woodpecker with dark eye stripe, white barring on back side. Seen well

1 Long-tailed Minivet

2 Black-hooded Oriole

1 Long-tailed Shrike

1 Rufous Treepie

3 House Crow

3 Large-billed Crow (Indian Jungle)

1 Gray-headed Canary-Flycatcher

2 Common Tailorbird

6 Ashy Prinia

6 Gray-throated Martin

11 Red-rumped Swallow

2 Red-vented Bulbul

2 Red-whiskered Bulbul

1 Hume's Warbler

2 Common Chiffchaff

1 Lesser Whitethroat

2 Yellow-eyed Babbler

2 Indian White-eye

2 Jungle Babbler

2 Striated Babbler

4 Indian Pied Starling

4 Oriental Magpie-Robin

1 Red-breasted Flycatcher

2 Purple Sunbird

5 Scaly-breasted Munia

8 Red Avadavat

2 White-browed Wagtail

1 Rosy Pipit

Haiderpur Wetland--Ujaili Trail

Dec 04, 2022

2:28 PM

Traveling

14.65 km

120 minutes

All birds reported? Yes

Comments:

7 Bar-headed Goose

76 Graylag Goose

2 Ruddy Shelduck

5 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)

5 Great Thick-knee

5 River Lapwing

1 Little Stint

2 Green Sandpiper

10 Black-headed Gull

8 Brown-headed Gull

9 Pallas's Gull

2 Asian Openbill

4 Asian Woolly-necked Stork

2 Oriental Darter

6 Little Cormorant

12 Great Cormorant

1 Gray Heron

1 Purple Heron

3 Little Egret

2 Indian Pond-Heron

9 Black Kite

2 Pied Kingfisher

4 Large-billed Crow (Indian Jungle)

6 Gray-throated Martin

7 Red-rumped Swallow

1 Red-vented Bulbul

2 White-browed Wagtail

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