Musa Khan : Desert National Park Guide

22/01/2024

Eurasian sparrowhawk
With Kil wheatear
January 2024
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Fairly small, long-tailed hawk with broad, rounded wings (not pointed like kestrels). Soars occasionally, but more often seen in quick hunting flight chasing small birds, or perched quietly in shade. Note golden-yellow eyes, barred underparts (barring grayish on female, rusty on male). Juvenile brownish above through first year. Smaller and much less bulky than Northern Goshawk, and with horizontally barred instead of vertically striped underparts. Occurs in woodland, forest, farmland, and urban areas with hedges and wooded patches; sometimes hunts in gardens.

28/12/2023

The Great Indian Bustard
Dec 2023
Location of Desert National Park
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This is a female Indian Bustard. Birds like best feeding on dang beetles and some snakes and lizards in winter season.

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03/12/2023

The Great Indian Bustard
Male
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December and January are the best time to see Godavan. welcome of Desert national park.

19/11/2023

Dating Stay in Thar Desert
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Dating Stay Good Moment Spectacular seen over the dunes in the Thar Desert
wild life call moment
You should definitely stay once on the desert dunes.
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09/11/2023

Trumpeter finch
Location of Desert national park
Sighting Nov 2023

The best time to see trumpeter finch is November to February.
This finch comes to the Desert National Park for winter visit and is currently a common sighting.

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27/10/2023

The Great Indian Bustard
Location of Desert national park
Oct 2023
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Nine Great Indian Bustards were seen feeding together in the grasslands of the Desert National Park.

23/10/2023

Common Buzzard
Sighting Oct 2023
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21/10/2023

Sykes's Nightjar
Caprimulgus mahrattensis
Sighting Oct 2023
Location -Desert national park
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A small, pale gray nightjar with a short tail. Note the fine black barring on the tail, small black spots on the upperparts, weak rust-colored collar, and relatively faint rust-colored spots on the wings. In flight, note the white patch extending across the first three flight feathers and the white edges to the tail. Nocturnal. Inhabits dry and arid scrub and grasslands.

19/10/2023

The Asian desert warbler (Curruca nana) is a typical warbler which breeds in the deserts of central and western Asia and the extreme east of Europe (Volga Delta area east to western Inner Mongolia in China), and migrating to similar habitats in southwestern Asia ( Arabia to northwestern India) and the far northeast of Africa (Red Sea coastal regions) in winter. Until recently it was considered conspecific with the African desert warbler (and called just "desert warbler"),[2] but is now given specific status.[3][4] The two are still each other's closest living relatives, and their relationships to other typical warblers are not clear. They may be fairly close to the common whitethroat; particularly, female whitethroats look much like a richly colored Asian desert warbler. But it seems that all these three taxa are fairly basal members of the genus.[5] [6]
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Sighting Oct 2023
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17/10/2023

Great Indian Bustard was seen roaming in the desert grasslands with its chick. Seeing the Indian Bustard with its chick raised hopes of increasing the population in nature.
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Sighting August 2023
Location of Thar desert
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12/10/2023

The cream-colored courser
Location of Desert national park
Sighting 2023
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The cream-colored courser (Cursorius cursor) is a wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. Both parts of the scientific name derive from Latin cursor, "runner", from currere, "to run"[2] which describes their usual habit as they hunt their insect prey on the ground in dry open semi-desert regions of the Middle East. and northern Africa.

02/10/2023

The isabelline wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher in the family Muscicapidae. It is a migratory insectivorous bird. Its habitat is steppe and open countryside and it breeds in southern Russia and Central Asia to northern Pakistan, wintering in Africa and northwestern India. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

23/09/2023

The greater hoopoe-lark (Alaemon alaudipes) is a passerine bird which is a breeding resident of arid, desert and semi-desert regions from the Cape Verde Islands across much of northern Africa, through the Arabian peninsula, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. . It was formerly known as the bifasciated lark and sometimes as the large des

19/09/2023

The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi) in India and Pakistan. It is the world's 18th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.

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16/09/2023

Laggar falcon with Kil
September 2023
Location of Desert national park

14/09/2023

Asiatic wildcat)(Desert cat)
The desert cat, which appears like a small domestic cat, is a wild feline that stands out for its ability to thrive in one of the most challenging habitats in India — the Thar Desert

05/09/2023

Egyptian vulture
Sighting August 2023
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19/07/2022

The blue-cheeked bee-eater is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. The genus name Merops is Ancient Greek for "bee-eater", and persicus is Latin for "Persian". It breeds in Northern Africa, and the Middle East from eastern Turkey to Kazakhstan and India. 

10/05/2022

Evening time of Desert Fox's child was amazing sight. In Desert National Park, these remaining evening time were coming out of their den, enjoying the nature's wind and waiting for their mummy to come?
fox pups

01/05/2022

The pied bush chat is a small passerine bird found ranging from West Asia and Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. About sixteen subspecies are recognized through its wide range with many island forms. 

24/04/2022

24/04/2022

Indian gazelle male and female nice view on the beautiful grasslands of Desert National Park

23/04/2022

Very nice view of baby of desert fox, sanjit sir guests in desert national park After seeing desert fox and baby, sir's guests were very happy, hope guests will go to desert national park to see it. sight.
Cradit

08/04/2022

The Secretive Toad Headed Agama (P. mystaceus) is a unique Agamid species from desert regions of Asia and the Middle East.

26/03/2022

Evening sky of thar Desert 🏜️
Location of Desert National park

25/03/2022

Laggar falcan with Kil
The laggar falcon, also known as the lugger falcon or jugger is a mid-sized bird of prey which occurs in the Indian subcontinent from extreme southeastern Iran, southeastern Afghanistan, Pakistan, through India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and northwestern Myanmar.

11/03/2022

The Himalayan vulture or Himalayan griffon vulture is an Old World vulture native to the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan Plateau. It is one of the two largest Old World vultures and true raptors. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List.

09/03/2022

Village Square

ENGHIN
Young twitcher becomes desert’s star guide
Athar Parvaiz Mar 04, 2022 Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

With a passion for birds, birding guide Musa Khan hopes his work will inspire other twitchers to become aware of rising bird deaths due to power transmission lines in the Thar desert.

Birding guide Musa Khan
Young bird-guide in the Desert National Park, Musa Khan is a sought-after man for amateur twitchers and scientists alike (Photo by Athar Parvaiz)

Most Gen-Xers spend hours looking at social media.

But this 27-year-old Rajasthani is passionate about birds, preferring to be a twitcher rather than spending his time on Twitter.

While most of us can’t tell the difference between the different species of larks or even pipits, which look similar beyond minor variations, Musa Khan can.

He is one of India’s youngest and most respected guides for bird watchers and scientists in India’s Desert National Park (DNP) in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan.

But he is on a mission too.

Passionate about saving birds
Khan wants people to be aware of birds being electrocuted from the rising number of power lines bringing electricity from the renewable energy plants in the Desert National Park.

Given his passion for birds, this always plays on Khan’s mind.

Musa Khan knows a lot about birds, such as this Hume’s wheatear (Photo by Athar Parvaiz)
“When will birds stop getting killed by power transmission lines?” he asks.

By getting visitors to the park interested in birds, and creating awareness, he hopes to prevent bird mortality from power lines.

Trained to be birders’ guide
Khan always had a huge fascination for the ecological characteristics of birds, as his village, Neebha, is inside the Desert National Park.

His life took a turn in 2015 when he attended a workshop the forest department organised to train tour guides. He not only learnt a lot more about birds during the workshop, but impressed the trainers.

Musa Khan observing birds with a pair of binoculars
Musa Khan learnt about birds, such as this Hume’s wheatear, when he trained to be a bird guide (Photo by Athar Parvaiz)
They told Khan that he would make a good guide for birdwatchers. Sure

09/03/2022

The saker falcon is a large species of falcon. This species breeds from central Europe eastwards across the Palearctic to Manchuria. It is mainly migratory except in the southernmost parts of its range, wintering in Ethiopia, the Arabian peninsula, northern Pakistan and western China