this is sensational. wish i was with you. rohan
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:41 PM, amol patwardhan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > Had a fabulous trip to Namdapha NP in Arunachal Pradesh. Its the > easternmost national park of the country. Its a tropical rain forest spread > over 1985 sq km. The terrain is very difficult. The trees are really huge > and the canopy level is at almost 200+ ft above us. Trees like Hollong > Dipterocarpus macrocarpus, Hollock Terminalia myriocarpa and huge tree > ferns. We counted minimum 300 species of butterflies. This is the first list > of Namdapha touching 300 mark. It included rare Freak, White punch, Four bar > swordtail, Yellow flat, Scarce white commodore, White commodore etc. to name > a few. > Apart from butterflies we saw rare animals like Slow loris, Stump tailed > macaque, Assamese macaque, Capped langur. All these primates are not easy to > locate due to the thicket. Also we saw a goat called Serow. Its a high > altitude mammal but it was very unusual to see it lower altitude. It was 10 > AM and it was crossing river just infront of us. > One of us managed to get good video of it. > I was not looking specially for the birds but still I managed to spot some > beauties like White crowned laughing thrush, Silver eared mesia, some > Piculet, Pin tailed green pigeon, some unknown eagles atop tree canopy, > green backed sunbird, streaked spiderhunter (very common), Sultan tit just > few feet from me. There are five species of hornbills are found in Namdapha > but this time only one member managed to spot Oriental Pied Hornbill. > Oh, I forgot. There was a white bellied heron which was fishing near the > guest house. Also I saw Ibisbill and some merganser in flight. Sometimes > there were huge great cormorant flocks on water bed. > Comments are welcome for the photos. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/7201...@n08/sets/ > The list of butterflies is being finalized and may post soon family wise. > > Regards, > Amol Patwardhan > www.amolpatwardhan.blogspot.com > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
