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Nicobar scops owls perched at great nicobar biosphere reserve

Nicobar Endemics Birding Tour – May, 2026 Trip

Guide: Prodip Sarder Dates: 20 April- 2 May, 2026 This highly strategic island-hopping expedition delivered exceptional results across three distinct island ecosystems. Beginning with a brief but highly productive survey of Kamorta Island, the team successfully recorded eight Nicobar endemics, highlighted by definitive views of the localized Nicobar Bulbul. Moving south to Great Nicobar Island, […]

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Nicobar Endemics Birding Tour – April, 2026 Trip

Tour Guide: Prodip Sarder Tour Dates: 30 March – 12 April, 2026 This extraordinary expedition achieved an ultimate clean sweep, recording all 27 target endemic bird species across the Andaman and Great Nicobar archipelagos. Field highlights included exceptional, open views of the rare Red-legged Crake, the elusive Malayan Night-Heron, and both Chinese and Javan Pond-Herons

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Nicobar Hooded Pitta perched on a branch near Campbell Bay

Andaman and nicobar Endemics Birding Tour: March, 2026 Expedition Report

Tour Leader: G.SHAKTIVEL Tour Dates: 28 Feb -15 Mar, 2026. We spent 3 Nights at Andamans to cover the Andaman Wood-Pigeon, Mugimaki Flycatcher, Chinese Pond-Heron and 12 Nights at Great Nicobar clean swiping the 7 nicobar endemics, we only manage to hear both the Nicobar Crake and Red-legged Crake during our sessions there. we made

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Nicobar serpent eagle fighting each other

Nicobar Endemics Birding Tour: October, 2025 Expedition Report

Guide: G. SHAKTIVEL, Tour Dates: 13-24 October, 2025. This Nicobar birdwatching tour successfully recorded all seven endemic bird species of the Nicobar Islands, alongside a historic ornithological milestone: the first documented record of the White-faced Plover (Charadrius dealbatus) in the Indian subcontinent. Offshore pelagic birding sessions yielded exceptional sightings of the Arctic Skua, Flesh-footed Shearwater,

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Nicobar endemics Birding Tour – September, 2025 Report

Guide: Prodip Sarder Tour Dates: 8-20 September, 2025 This extraordinary expedition achieved sweeping success, recording 15 Andaman endemics in just two days before securing all seven Nicobar endemics on Great Nicobar. The ultimate highlight was a historic mega-pelagic rarity: a Barau’s Petrel, marking the first official record for the Andaman Islands and only the second

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Nicoabar Imperial Pigeon perched at Galathea National Park

Nicobar Endemics Birding Tour – March, 2023 Trip Report

Guide: G. SHAKTIVEL TOUR DATES: 5-18 March, 2023 Despite completing this expedition just as the Nicobar Islands were transitioning to closed status for tourism—severely restricting accessible terrain—our team successfully located and photographed all seven endemic bird species of the Nicobar Islands. The expedition’s absolute highlight was securing unobstructed, prolonged views of a breeding pair of

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Nicobar Endemics Birding Tour – November, 2022

Guide: G. SHAKTIVEL Tour Dates: 12-26 November, 2022 Marking our first post-COVID Great Nicobar expedition, this 8-night tour delivered historic records. The ultimate highlight was a Chinese Egret, the first documented record for the Nicobar archipelago. The group also secured exceptional views of the endemic Nicobar Megapode at its nesting mound, Nicobar Parakeet feeding on

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