Southern Coastal Karnataka – Bird Photography

It was a last minute decision by me to join the group exploring Birding around Southern Coastal Karnataka.
Our group Santosh Bengaluru, Amith Kumar , Savitha Ravi, Parimala Ranganath & Shankar Sg.

We left Bangalore at 10:30pm & reached Udupi by 6:00am, had a quick fresh & headed to Hoode-Bengare.

Places covered on Day-1 : Hoode-Bengare, Kaup , Mulki

Rufous Treepie 

Lesser Goldenback Woodpecker

If  planing to visit Mulki , Low tide is the best time & prior check of tide movement for that day would be advisable.

Common Sandpiper Juv

Small Blue Kingfisher

Kentish Plover

Western Reef Egret

Lesser Sand Plover

Curlew Sandpiper

Whimbrel

Eurasian Curlew

Dolphin

Common Sandpiper

Grey Plover

Brown-Headed Gull

Kaup Light House

Ruddy Turnstone

Mulki

When we reached Mulki in evening it was low tide , We could walk around this place & see thousands of crabs emerging out, But next day morning due to high tide the water level was 5 feet submerging this place.

Red Fiddler crab

Hermit Crab

Common Redshank

Lesser Sand Plover

Black-tailed Godwit

Pacific Golden Plover

Terek Sandpiper

Places covered on Day-2 : Sasihithlu, Kapu, Someshwara.

Sasihithlu

Grey Plover

Blue Tailed Bee-Eater

Common Greenshank

Thanks to the wonderful team 🙂 Santosh & Amith for idying the birds & preparing the checklist 🙂 .

Also I would recommend to buy a book on Birds of Southern Coastal Karnataka with Kannada & local names of the birds.

To download our checklist right click on link & save Checklist