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nice web site and good information for bird lover
thank a lot

Siting of Pied Avocet has been done near Mulund - Airoli bridge on Thane Creek.

Dear Vijay,
The report on your visit to Dandeli was very interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed your honest and vivid presentation of the experience you had with nature.

Thank you a lot.

Regards

Really nice informative website. Only suggestion I have is to include common Indian names as well as all of us are not familiar with English names.

Posted few pictures on INW. Learning processing using your tips and tips from VMR. I am truly enjoying. Hope to continue to enjoy the joy of nature.

Looking forward to your report on Dandeli- Anshi.

Thanks .....

Fantastic. The effort that has gone into creating this website is truly awesome. Clearly one of the the best resources in the world - print media included - for Indian birds.

Simply awesome. Great work sir. Extremely talented photography and great classifications of the birds as well. It will serve as a referanse material to wildlife enthusiasts like us.
KEEP IT UP!!!!!!!!

It was nice to meet you personally yesterday and was more joyful to have a darshan of nature's precious gift through your eyes. It was quite serene and beautiful. Thank you for the dedicated work that has been put in for so many years.

Awesome stuff man!!!!!!
And the bird calls section is too great.

Great Job :)

Is a good site keep it on ok.

माफ करा सर, माझ्याकडे शब्द नाहियेत या अतीउत्कृष्ट साईट्च्या वर्णनासाठी.

Sorry sir, mala maaf kara.
I dont have enough words to describe such a wonderful website.

EXCELLENT WEBSITE DESIGNED WITH SOUND BY INDIAN. PHOTOGRAPHS AND SOUND IS EXCELLENT

Execellent photographs and sound. Thank you for sharing this with us normal mortals who have an interest in the wildlife of India. I have been using your work as a reference for all my sightings ever since I came upon this site some months ago. Keep up the good work and thanks again !!

Your work is very good, & reording of sound are just superb. web site is just superb.

website is excellent.sounds of birds are just superb .The description of birds should be more elaborate with respect to their habitat,food etc.

Your work is brilliant and fascinating.It makes us a nature lover if we are not one.The sounds of the birds are amazing.

Excellant owrk and photograph.

Brilliant! Just too good. Makes one want to go outdoors immediately.

hi,
i am delighted by seeing this site.The most fascinatig thig is souds of different birds.Its amazing......

Rally it is a good experince to watch and heard the sound different Indian birgs. I hope every nature lover will like to see this web site. Heartly thanks to record the picture and sound of bird-common hawk cuckoo.

Really it is a good experians to me

How come you have done such a clear recording of bird voices? it is really great to hear all sounds.
This site will be really useful for me for bird watching from here on.
Thanks for the great job.

Anand

Hi,
It is really excellent website with so many features...lots of fascinating sounds, pictures etc. I heard koyal's song last month at my native place & again I heard same song here. Then I came to know that this is koyal's song. Wonderful....

Warm Regards,
Vivek Hebalkar

Hello, Wonderful site with songs, calls and food habits given. Though I live in a metropolitan city, with a small garden, I could recognise many of the species mentioned: including Robin, Doves, Mynas, Koels, larks, bulbuls, bee eaters, rollers, parakeets, pee wee, hud hud, finches, crows, and ofcourse kites. Keep it up.....Best Regards

Hi
its a good dbase for nature lovers.....but i was looking for info on habitats and major food source on some local birds like bats, Cuckoo, humming birds etc...but to my disappointment its not in the website.
Because of global warming and development the birds are losing their natural habitat and their food source.How can we help to mitigate this situation.
It would be helpful if you provide info or tips to save their habitat...like for eg bats eat guava and badam we can grow these trees in our houses and in the municipal parks.....in bezubaan pakshiyon ki dekhbal kaun karega ??

With Best Regards
Praseinjith.

Hi Vijay
New website is really great,lots of new interesting features.
Very usful information for birders.

Regards
Mangesh Deherkar

Hi vijay,

Im a regular visitor from 2005 onwards...
till now lots of improvements...and lots of new features...

But download section still in the infant stage..
and u also removed Shyamal's Software.
Hope we can expect more in the download section...

One suggestion pls..
Right now you are arranged the Database according to Gallary wise. Could you also make it in the OBI style..(ie Family and then Family members wise..). It's realy help us to spot the bird in th e website instantly...

regards...
All the Best in future...
Gireesh.

I am actually visiting south India and made some photos of Indian birds in the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary. I would be pleased if you could help me identify these birds (not very common in France).

Brief visit, just a sampling, enjoyed what I saw and read. Will visit again. Jim

Hi..I have seen a few ducks at a local park in hyd..these ducks are having some red spots near their mouths...is there something wrong with these ducks.

Useful site. Good Pics and bird calls, very useful for field identification.

Bird anagrams could be a good way to make bird watching interesting. Examples :

1.VA VA DEAD RAT.

2.NEENA JACOB DRAWING Z.

3.SAGAR MHATRE IS FIRST BLIND CID.

4.ADESH ATE STRONG KOEL.

This is my favorite site. I was looking for exact name of the Eagle which I often see while crossing the Belandur Lake in Bangalore.
I guess it is the BRAHMINY KITE. I know very less about birds. But I like watching and identifying them.

I just had one difficulty in the website. Suppose I type 'Eagle' and click on search, it lists few links. If I click on one click it takes me to a page with the bird image. However if I click on Next, it takes me to the next bird image in the list. I cannot come back to my Search page. I have to type the search word again. I wish there was a Back button to come back to my Search page, instead of me doing the search again.
Please help me out in using your websites, Search option easily.
Many tanks

Please excuse that last comment - I found the thumbnails under Birds - Gallery, but so many Galleries!

I just got back from West Bengal and was kicking myself for not taking my binoculars and a good birding book of Indian birds. I took notes though and am now trying to identify them. My most remarkable bird was the Common Hoopoe. Everything I read says he's quite common but I found him quite remarkable. I sighted him near a Shiva temple way out in the country near the Mallabhum Institute of technolgy in Bishnupur West Bengal. I saw quite a few other birds even without binoculars and wish your website had thumbnail sketches so I could browse. Beautiful pictures, though, even if I can't find what I'm looking for!

Your site is brilliant.

It wld be great if you provided more info on each bird species as well as new developments in the field.

Some species have only one of the sexes. it wld be gr8 if we cld get the other morphs like the immature, juvenile,..

Most importantly, species like raptors and gulls n terns should have more pics in flight.

Really brilliant work on the waders!!

This is a wonderful site. and very informative. Today we sighted 'Red Brested Parakeet' in SGNP. Is it a common sighting?

Nitin

your site is really extra ordinary, i have never seen such a beautiful and discriptive site than yours, on seeing your site i could realize the amount of pain you have taken for it, specially for the "hear the bird".
great great great

This is a very very good site for nature lovers
Thank to those created such a wonderful sites & photos are also amaiging
I want some photo plz

This is wonderful site. Your photographs are amazing. Thank ou for sharing.

Please let me know how to post recent sightings of the birds.

All the photos are very good. My sons like the bird calls very much. Was very much useful as sci. names of birds are given.

Your site is a delight. Wonderful photos.

I am visiting India next month on a wildlife trip. Your site has been a help and inspisration for my Indian wildlife photography.

Hai! Too good all the information.
Photos are very good.
I was trying to copy the pictures ....
This is the first time I have visited the site.
That part was interesting about guide to snap the birds. ok bye

Really amazing,uniqe website. Really enjoyed to see small, beautiful, cute little cratures.Keep it up.Thanks for giving chance to view the exallent photography.

Excellent Site. Liked the Bird Calls very much.

http://www.pbase.com/sandipan/birds_india

i become crezy about to see more pictures and i want to save the emages of them pz

Just too good

Simply fabulous site.Was an absolute treat to go thru' ur site. Great job. keep it up. anything we can do to help birds as common people-do let us know.Can u tell me where to find books on birds. i have one by sunjoy munga 'Birds of mumbai" .Any similar books which give info on basic behaviours of birds and their habitats or what they feed on etc. For the moment i'm just thrilled on finding u'r site. thankyou.

Its a best website is very good.

I would like to work for birds. can you send your ideas to save the birds.

We are planned for the World Biggest plantation , we would like to take oppurtunity from you for the best trres for birds, so we can send the message around the world for the conservation of the birds.
thanking you.
sandip Pawar
project coordinator,
SSIAST,
Bangalore 560082.
9448926965, srisriagri@gmail.com

imags ar best

Wonderful experience visiting your site. Meticulously planned.Keep it up. Kudos.

nice site, love the hear the bird section, great recordings... but, why did I get an antivirus warning re: Gida.A Trojan? ???

This website is really superb. It is clearly a labour of love and it shows in the meticulous attention to detail. The Hear the Bird section is uncomparable and most of the recordings are flawless.
Great work all round.
Congrats.

I visited Ooty today (26/12/2007). while in doda beta I fouund a bird that looked like a sparrow but has a different colour (Black). While checking the Internet I found this link http://www.birding.in/birds/Passeriformes/Alaudidae/black-crowned_sparrow-lark.htm I think this would be interesting to you

wonderful site; bird identifying made
easy; thank you.
keep adding new pictures;

Great site...fantastic pictures,great information.Just one request,please improve the search option.For example,if someone need to find pics of a particular species.Its not possible at present.Or is there a way?

Great job. We needed a site like this for Indian birds. I am an avid birder and will use this for planning my next trip in India.
btw, how are the vultures doing? I grew up in Delhi and over the years have noticed these birds completely disappear from Delhi's backyards and trash dumps.

i love this sqite

Excellent Site. Well designed gallery. I enjoyed showing them to my family including 6 yrs old daughter and 3 yrd old son. They liked the sounds especially!

fantastic pictures hope u keep collecting them.

NICE SITE KEEP IT UP OK

Just got back from India ...and wanted to see what some of the birds I saw there were!

Thanx for such a beautiful site. I am also a bird lover,got many information from your site.Currently I am in bangalore and interestingly in my office campus(whitefield)I saw so many species of birds.
One thing I noticed in your site that there is no information about birds of northeast. Try to come to Assam(especially kaziranga) you will see several species of birds.

i want consrvate the birds

I am very happy to view this site on internet because I found many sites regarding foreign birds but first time Indian birds information I am getting online.This is very helpful for Indain Birdwatcher to study about indian Birds.I am really greatful to you for your lovely & beautiful site.

If anybady interested to share about indian birds they can contact me in my email ID:Ganeshbasrur@gmail.com

Thank You

Happy Bird Watching....
Ganesh B S

Since we will be living in India half of next year, my grandson & I are slowly going through the gallery learning some birds I will see and what they sound like. Thanks for providing this site!

Hello Vijay Sir,

I am very thankful to for wonderful information regarding the birds, When I am going for bird watching if I saw new bird and I did't get any information about that then I search your site, I realy get all the information.

-Pasha

a wonderful site..an amazing variety of birds.
thank you and do keep up the good work.

urvashi

Hi Vijay

Really appreciate your efforts and the decison to take up this profession.

I myself have a keen desire to get into it. I have started a small way and have brought myself 8-16X 40 Olumpus Binoculars.

I stay on the 12th floor of a building on the border of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park and have identified around 30 species of bird right from my windows. Some of them are :-
Alexandrine Parakeet, Coppersmith Barbet, Ashy Prinia, Long-Tailed Shrike, Greater Coucal, White-Breasted Waterhen, Baya Weaver, Purple Sunbird, Black Drongo, Asian Koel, Jungle Crow, Golden Oriole, Pied Myna, Yellow Breasted Sparrow, Kingfisher, Sparrow, Crow, Myna, Piegon, Spotted Dove, Magpie Robin, Palm Swift.

This all in the last two months. I am expecting a much more action in the coming months, when migratory species would visit the open area , forest and small paddy field adjoining my building.

Happy Birding

Vimochan Naik

Hi,
Wonderful site. Amazing pictures.

I entered the site as I wanted to identify a bird i saw a little while ago amongst the trees in the place where I live. I happened to see this tiny bird (bright brown colored), probably smaller than a sparrow, with a long (about 6" to 8") green tail (ribbon-like and about an inch wide). I am not sure if the tail consisted of just one feather or two feathers.

I am wondering if what I saw is really a bird with a tail as described above, or whether it was a sparrow carrying a long blade of green grass. I sighted this bird twice, with about 20 minutes between the two sightings.

Look forward to hearing from you.

With best regards,

Franklin Gonsalves

Hey Mr. Vijay, you have made an excellent website.
this is the second time i have visited it to look for a bird by the call and i found it.
The oriental honey buzzard.
My cousin, lives in a apartment complex by the name "White House" in a locality called R.T Nagar in Bangalore.
last night i was at his place and there was this screechng sound of a bird, i just could not place the bird. i thought it must either be a nightjar or some kind of a owl.
I visited your site this mornign and looked for the bird, and i finally found it.
I was way off.
Honestly, i myself have been a ardent bird watcher. but had never come across this bird.
This was new to me.
But thank you for the lovely site.
regards
Yogi

Excellent website!!!! I feel homesick and want to return to India hearing the birds and seeing the excellent photos made by Mr Vijay Kavale. Thanks a lot. I live near Bhimashankar and there also many rare birds. India should protect its forest from growing human population. Nowhere in the world I find such beautifully singing birds. Thank you Mr Kavale to make such meticulous and artistic website.

Hello,
i'm living in Bodh Gaya for the next 6months and am delighted at the avian diversity here. I saw my first sun bird today and have yet been able to identify it with either any in my book of indian birds or on the internet. It was small and agile (as i guess most are!), had a yellow throat with a thick black line running downwards, and had white supercilium and cheeks. Does anyone know what kind of sunbird this is? Thanks very much, Kieran

Hi,
Does anyone know which bird is known as "Kolli Koravan" in Kerala? This one is a nocturnal bird and is often associated with death and misfortune. Male and female birds make loud and clear sounds throughout the night during Aug-Sep months. The two distinct sounds I heard are Ku-Hoo and Ku-Hu-Hu-Hu (said to be ku-thi-chu-du in Malayalam meaning - burn the dead body well in the funeral pyre). Scary!

I guess this bird is also known as Kalan Kozhi in other parts of Kerala. Any idea?

Hi,
I have been a regular to your site for a long time now. I was in Kabini recently and sighted this Falcon. While a collegue believes it is a Pregrine Falcon I think it is the Oriental Hobby. I would appreciate it if you could ID this bird for me:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1133/1275720543_45663a0885_o.jpg

Cheers
Guru

all birds to write anessay of 10 pages

all the birds to write an essay of 10 pages

exquisite collection of photos....recently i saw a bird which was the size of a sparrow...had black slits for eyes and its tail feathers would stand up like a peacock....would like to know the name of this bird...

Dear Vijay
An outstanding site, a treat in every way, info on the photography much appreciated, wonderful tips, any less expensive alternatives to the Nikkor 600mm,( I have a D2Xs with 200 mm nikkor f2.8 As vr, 20 E teleconverter)would appreciate the advice
thanks
Avanindra

Info for Shaylana Rogers:
The best book available in India on birds is 'Birds of India' by Salim Ali.

Wondeful site!! Thinking of coming to India and looking at sites. I'll use yours for a reference. Is there a good book that tells the best birding locations in India, and the best times to visit? Thanks so much
Shaylana

Thank you very much for this wonderful site.
It will surely help to preserve the biodiversity of our beloved country.
I am really glad to see that in this country, where everyone who can own a camera, thinks himself a photographer and every conman a filmmaker. There are still a few who really care about their work, in order to study and persevere to do a good job.

dear sir,
i am a coffee planter and an avid bird watcher. yours is an amazing site. we have more than 50 varieties of hill birds in our estates, most of which you have in your gallery. i refer to salim ali's bird books. i invite you to come to my estate and check out the birds sometime.
regards.
sounder

Hi,

Great Work Sir...I got to know about this site from a few close friends and it is also mentioned in a book by Amano Smarpan..I am a wildlife enthusiast and love being with nature..But I must say that this site has brought me much close to the birds..Now I can identify them easily. This has also developed a special intrest in me for avian life..It is a gr8 E-Guide....Keep up the gr8 work...

Regards,
Misha.

http://nisarga.maasika.googlepages.com.

This is not spam. This is a E-zine about nature and environment.

Dear Vijay,

I had nice photograph of most probably FALCON. Hence I decided to check on internet and found your wonderful site. It was absolutely unexpected finding with lot of beautiful details.

The site has been painstaking developed with nice features for eg HEAR THE BIRD. I would like to contribute with Photographs and sounds if possible.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks.
Pravin Kulkarni

Dear Vijay
These all are woundarful.I realy impressed that you are doing all thesething for awerness and realy aprisiable work.

There is dedication in everything you have presented. What a visual treat to the viewers and adding the sound to the visual is unique indeed.

I am thrilled to see your presentation. Would be great to accompany you in one of your trips. I have an Canon EOS 5D with 180 Macro and 70-200 IS with a 2x converter.

Thankyou on behalf of all the viewers for this wonderful visual feast without any commercial intention.

Hi Vijay,

I love to hear the bird call every time the bird pic is displayed on the screen. I have not seen anything beautiful as this in any other website !!

Amazing Photographs, I found your website is very impressive. GREAT JOB

Being a wildlife lover I found this site as excellent reference manual. This is a great site and a great team work. My kids are so found of your site whenever they see me sitting in front of computer they ask me to show �Indian birds�. Appreciated what you have done.

Excellent photoquality. website welldone. congratulations on your unique effort. best regards.

Vijay,
Great Site. Wish you and your team the very best.
Please do update with more birds and sounds,

Being a Wild life entuatist, i appreciate your photography and especially the sound which is so clear. I will be very glad if u could send me the sounds of Asian Koel and Changeable Hawk eagle by email to preserve and listen the same.

What a wonderful site you have! Thanks for sharing the joy of nature with us. I will certainly visit your site over and over again.

I am just beginning to take pictures of birds and your wonderful work is very inspring.

Your site is easily the best information resource on birds on net.Bird sound recordings are surprisingly clear and uniform even those of rare varieties; I wonder how u managed to record them!I play those in may pc speakers to confuse the birds on nearby tree :-)

Hi! ur site is amazing..and the sounds are great 2! btw how did u record the sounds?

i saw a group of buff-coloured birds with red beaks ( i think) hopping in the grounds. could they be babblers?

Today I have got a chance to visit this web site. Awesome work. I am sure that my kids are going to love this site.

I intimated my friends also about your wonderful work. I am sure your site will be helpful to lot of people...

Thanks

it is late April and I just spotted a smallish bird (white body) with a long white, feathered tail. It was perched on my bougainvillea and when it disappeared into a tree higher up, it was like a white streak of lightning. Beautiful but frustrating, as I don't know what species this may be. Any ideas? It sounds quite chirpy but musically, not harshly so. Thanks, regards

HI Vijay
Discovered your site today. GReat JOB!! The pictures are great and the audio is awesome.

Can you tell me what is the english and scientific name for a bird that we call "Papiha" in northern India?
Ritcha

Hi Vijay,

Thanks for sharing so many wonderful photographs and the bird calls too. It is indeed inspiring and very helpful for a beginer like me.

Just a small suggestion. Under the menu Gallery, you have catrgorised birds based on types and have them in Gallery 1 to Gallery 39. Instead of "Gallery 1", could you give meaningful names to the Galleries. for eg. Gallery 39 can be renamed as Munias.

I really enjoyed your site. I can finally identify some of the birds that frequent my indian home.

Karen

Great site you are maintaining, Vijay

I went through the birds gallery, and all the shots were excellent....

I was looking for one particular bird, but couldn't find it. I'm from kerala and we call it "UPPAN" or "CHEMPOTHU". Dont know the scientific name. It is black in colour with bright red wings. It is fairly big(body about 35 cms) and a long tail(about 20 cms) and has medium sized legs. The bird is fairly common, and makes a continuous loud hooting noise. I'd be grateful if you could provide some information about this bird.

Hari G

hello...dats a beautiful pair of bee-eaters you have captured!! i recently visited the rann of kutch..came across this bird of prey..dark brown/black plummage, white spot on head, an off-white ring around the neck..on the ground, didnt shy away, although we approached in a jeep...what could it be??

Hello ,

The pics with the sounds are exellent , i have located a spot near Andhra Pradesh thats near ongole a fresh water lake with many migratory birds , this is on way to Guntur and its a treat to watch , am trying to capture them in the film and would like to post it in this website.

hi,
I like the bird very much That why i send it to you.

Hi Vijay,
Thank you for sharing. Great audio and the pictures are excellent. There's not much to see and hear in Singapore where wild life is concerned.

Best Wishes
John

Mr Cavale,

Seldom a website provide so much delight to the viewer along with the information. The photographs are sharp and clear. Sound of the birds are absolute treat. I hope your effort goes along way in changing the we have treated our nature.

Hello Mr Cavale,
Stumbled onto your site today. Its GOOD. I do a fair amount of nature photography & have uploaded on "Webshots". Took a picture of a yellow breasted bird today & am unable to name it. Could you possibly help?
Chandrashekaran

Mr Cavale,

You did an excellent job in this field. The photographs are excellent and the bird calls are delight to listen. We are really spellbound to see it. Hope you will keep this up.

Subhasish
Green Peoples India.
Malda

hello friends,
i'm very interested in conserving our wildlife.
can i get any information about any organisation for saving our wildlife in Andhra pradesh?

please help me if anyone knows....
sindhura

DEAR VIJAY...
THAT WAS REALLY A TREMENDOUS EXPERIENCE WHEN I HAVE HEARD THE VOICE OF BIRDS. YOU ARE REALLY ONE OF THE FANTASTIC WELL WISHER OF THE LOVELY BIRDS.AND I AM SURE THAT BY YOUR HARDWORK AND INTERESTINGLY EVALUATION OF THE VARIOUS SPECIES, WE CAN ENJOY THIS SITE. MY BEST WISHES IS ALWAYS WITH YOU. KEEP IT UP..
YOUR'S
VASHISHTH SHUKLA
VADODARA, 098795 98918

Dear Friends,
I love to watch birds, and want to do something for nature is there any Organisation working for birds & animal in Ahmedabad

I also request if any bird watcher in Ahmedabad or on net he can guide me

If any please inform me

Awaiting (For Friend)

ASHISH

Dear Vijay,

I am amazed at the quality and the variety of pictures you have taken, given that bird photography is such an exacting job, seldom giving desired results.You are an exceptionally talented photographer.
Thank you for exhibiting all these beautiful pictures.I thoroughly enjoy gazing and marvelling at them.
May the Lord give you the opportunity to churn out a hundred million more photographs of similar beauty.

Cheers,

Gowri.

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