For our final full day in India, and our last day birding on this trip, we had a relaxed walk up and down the road in the Namdapha National Park. Although we had a few species we wanted to target, we thought that a day of bumping into mixed flocks would turn up the majority. But we were wrong, as the day was really quite slow on the birding front and we only managed a couple of our targets.
Over the course of the day we managed to find both the
Pale-headed Woodpecker and the White-tailed Flycatcher. Our planning on bumping
into mixed species flocks did not transpire as we had hoped, with only a few
Yellow-bellied Warblers and a few different Yuhina species encountered. Our
main target was the Snowy-throated Babbler which is nearly endemic to the park.
Sadly over the full day we only heard a couple of individuals distantly, with
one other coming close but not showing well.
On the mammal front we did a little better. In the early
morning we had a small group of at least four Otter species playing in the
rapids on the river below, but they were distant and identification was not
possible. Still they were fun to watch as they were running around and sitting
on the rocks. There was another new mammal species for me with Northern
Treeshrew which was feeding on a fruiting tree. And then at night, as we
rounded off the day, we had another showing of the Giant Red Flying Squirrel.
Additionally there was a Muntjac Deer calling somewhere in the forest, but not
close enough to find and we did not venture into the woodland due to the
possibility of a large cat on the prowl.
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