Beyond Leopards: The Birds and Crocodiles of Jawai Bandh Almost everyone who comes to Jawai comes for one animal. The leopard. I did too, the first time. But the picture I keep coming back to isn’t a cat on a rock. It’s a crocodile lying dead still in the morning sun, jaws gaping wide at […]
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Everyone comes to Jawai watching the hills. The leopards are up there, after all — folded into the granite like shadows that learned to breathe. But turn your back on the rocks for a moment, walk down to where the dam spreads thin and silver across the land, and a different Jawai opens up. It
Jawai is a stretch of the Aravalli hills in western Rajasthan, where a dam, a few villages and leopards We had two days here, four safaris, and a hill full of leopards that act like they own the rocks, because they do. This is the story of our Jawai leopard safari: what we saw, where
I have been asked this question more times than I can count, standing at the edge of the Kadbanwadi grasslands near Bhigwan with fellow birders squinting at a distant silhouette — is that a Short-toed Snake Eagle or a Bonelli’s Eagle? Both are big. Both are brown on top and pale underneath. Both love open
The morning light was still thin over the Ujani backwaters when I spotted it — perched high on a canopy tree above the grassland edge, dark mantle against a grey winter sky, completely indifferent to the world below. It took me a second look and a hard review of the field marks to say it
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A bull Indian Gaur weighs over a tonne and even tigers treat it with caution. Field notes, behaviour, and original photographs from a morning safari at Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve
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Can you see it? Indian Nightjar at Bhigwan — hiding in plain sight. © Prashant S. Gupta / TravelOnTales A Bird That Looks Like the Ground Brown. Buff. Grey. Rust. Speckled. Streaked. The Indian Nightjar’s feathers are not just one colour — they are a whole painting of the forest floor. Broken bark. Dried leaves.
Field Journal · Central India You Came to See a Tiger.You Stayed to See the Jungle. You booked the safari hoping to see the most famous cat on earth. But what if the most extraordinary thing you encounter has nothing to do with it? A field dispatch from Bandhavgarh, Tadoba & Panna. by Prashant S.
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By Prashant S. Gupta | Published: April 18, 2026 Panna Tiger Reserve is not India’s most talked-about wildlife destination. It is quietly becoming one of its best. This guide covers everything you need to plan a Panna Tiger Reserve safari — how to get there, which gate to use, exact safari timings and ticket costs,
Bhigwan Bird Sanctuary · Species Field Notes The Ospreyof Ujani India’s winter raptor that flies thousands of kilometres — and arrives at Bhigwan to do one thing with absolute, mechanical perfection. Pandion haliaetus Ujani Backwaters, Maharashtra October – March The hunter holds its post. Ujani backwaters, Bhigwan. Nikon Z50. There is a bird at Bhigwan
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