Welcome to Jamnagar Birds
Jamnagar offers some wonderful birding opportunities. Birds are part of the environments of the Jamnagar invite a lot of locals as well as tourists from all parts of the world. The city is blessed with islands, beach, hills with temples, bird sanctuaries Marine National Park. It is a golden opportunity for the bird lovers to come and explore the bird watching and nature trips. Many of the rare birds in this list like Indian Skimmer, Crab Plover, Eurasian Oystercatcher, and Ruddy Turnstone are among the most critically endangered animals of the world. birds are coming from different part of the world into Jamnagar for breeding and wintering .places like the Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary, Marine National Park, Dhichda, Barda hills and Lakota Lake Jamnagar, are best tourist attraction places which attract the tourist from all over the world. The bird Sanctuary, the Marine Sanctuary, the Salt pans, the rivers & water reservoirs of Jamnagar are vibrant with bird life. Close observation of birds with absolute range of colours, sizes, sounds and activity of the birds are possible throughout the region. You wake up to the constant whistling and singing of birds. It puts you in your happy place, setting the perfect mood for a day of adventure.
Khijadiya is a distinctive manmade, coastal, freshwater wetland in semi-arid biogeographic zone in India. It came into existence due to two bunds/embankments built to apprehend salinity ingress from the sea into the mainland and to prevent freshwater draining into the sea. This created a unique complex “Saltwater-Freshwater” ecosystem with variety of habitat types and ecosystems. This dynamic and complex wetland eco-system with multiplicity of habitat types provide various ecological and economic services. It supports birds including various categories of species scheduled in Red Data List of IUCN. This wetland system provides favourable breeding, feeding, roosting, and staging grounds for a great variety and density of birds during various seasons of the year. Along with the marine and fresh water habitats, there are also marshy lands, mangroves, Prosopis areas, mudflats, salt pans, creeks, forest scrub, sandy beaches, and even farmlands bordering the area. This makes the place a paradise for more than 250 species of resident and migratory birds, including globally threatened species such as Dalmatian pelican, Asian open bill stork, Black-necked stork, Darter, Black-headed ibis, Eurasian spoonbill, and Indian skimmer, and provides birdwatchers with a delightful chance to sight rare birds in large numbers. The KBS is located adjacent to the boundaries of Marine Sanctuary. Due to its strategic location close to the Gulf of Kachchh, an Central Asian flyway, it act as a regular route for the migratory birds that comes from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to visit the sanctuary and its neighboring areas.
An Interpretation Center has been set up for tourists and nature lovers to acquire scientific information on the avifauna and varied ecosystems of the sanctuary. There are also facilities likereclamation bunds, watch towers, hides and nature trails towards Dhunvav/ Khijadiya side and reclamation bund, watch towers, hides and murram road up to watch towers towards Jambuda side of the sanctuary to facilitate tourists.
There are no State Transport buses to the site, but rickshaws are available, and private vehicles can be hired. For permission and more information contact Office of Chief Conservator of Forests Office, Tel: 0288 2679357, Nagnath Gate, Van Sankul, Ganjiwada, Jamnagar.
One can find both sea and shore birds, here like the Shikra, Bank Myna, Common Myna, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Moustached Warbler, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Clamorous Reed Warbler, Common Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Common Iora, Oriental Skylark, Common Kingfisher, Rufous-tailed Lark, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Common Teal, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Spot-billed Duck, Garganey, Gadwall, Asian Openbill, Darter, Greylag Goose, Bar-headed Goose, Tawny Pipit, Richard's Pipit, Paddyfield Pipit,, House Swift, Greater Spotted Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Indian Pond Heron, Indian Bustard, Ruddy Turnstone, Spotted Owlet, Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Ferruginous Pochard, Eurasian Eagle Owl,, Cattle Egret, Eurasian Thick-knee, White-eyed Buzzard, Long-legged Buzzard, Little Heron, Greater Short-toed Lark, Asian Short-toed Lark, Sand Lark, Sanderling, Dunlin, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Temminck Stint, Great Knot, Indian Nightjar, Grey Nightjar, Large-tailed Nightjar, Sykes Nightjar, Great Egret, Greater Coucal, Brown Rock-chat, Pied Kingfisher, Kentish Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Common Ringed Plover, Greater Sand Plover, Lesser Sand Plover, Whiskered Tern, Woolly-necked Stork, Short-toed Snake Eagle, Eurasian Marsh Harrier, Pallid Harrier, Montagus Harrier, Pied Cuckoo, Rock Pigeon, Oriental Magpie Robin, Indian Roller, European Roller, Large-billed Crow, House Crow, Rain Quail, Common Quail, Eurasian Cuckoo, Indian Cuckoo, Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher, Indian Courser, Tickell's Blue Flycatcher, Asian Palm Swift, Rufous Treepie, Yellow-crowned Woodpecker, Lesser Whistling-duck, Forest Wagtail,, Black Drongo, Crab-plover, Little Egret, Western Reef Egret, Black-shouldered Kite, Red-headed Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, Black-headed Bunting, House Bunting, Black-necked Stork, Ashy-crowned Sparrow Lark, Black-crowned Sparrow Lark, Great Thick-knee, Asian Koel, Verditer Flycatcher, Red-necked Falcon, Merlin, Laggar Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Oriental Hobby, Common Kestrel, Red-throated Flycatcher, Common Coot, Crested Lark, Sykes's Lark, Watercock, Common Snipe, Pintail Snipe, Common Moorhen, Gull-billed Tern,, Small Pratincole, Collared Pratincole, Sarus Crane, Common Crane, Demoiselle Crane, White-rumped Vulture, Long-billed Vulture, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Black-capped Kingfisher, White-throated Kingfisher, Pallas's Fish Eagle, Crested Treeswift, Bonelli's Eagle, Booted Eagle, Black-winged Stilt, Booted Warbler, Dusky Crag Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Eurasian Crag Martin, Barn Swallow, Wire-tailed Swallow, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Black-naped Monarch, Cinnamon Bittern, Little Bittern, Yellow Bittern, Eurasian Wryneck, Brown Shrike, Rufous-tailed Shrike, Southern Grey Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike, Herring Gull, Brown-headed Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Slender-billed Gull, Heuglin's Gull, Pallas's Gull, Black-headed Gull, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Grasshopper Warbler, Indian Silverbill, Black-headed Munia, Scaly-breasted Munia, Bluethroat, Jack Snipe, Coppersmith Barbet, Bimaculated Lark, Green Bee-eater, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Intermediate Egret, Bronze-winged Jacana, Black Kite, Red Kite, Singing Bushlark, Indian Bushlark, White Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Citrine Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, White-browed Wagtail, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Painted Stork, Purple-rumped Sunbird, Egyptian Vulture, Cotton Pygmy-goose, Eurasian Curlew, Whimbrel, Black-crowned Night Heron, Desert Wheatear, Isabelline Wheatear, Variable Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Eurasian Golden Oriole, Common Tailorbird, Collared Scops Owl, Osprey, Great Tit, House Sparrow, Indian Peafowl, Dalmatian Pelican, Great White Pelican, Spot-billed Pelican, Rock Bush Quail, Jungle Bush Quail, Grey Partridge, Small Minivet, Oriental Honey-buzzard, Sirkeer Malkoha, Indian Cormorant, Little Cormorant, Little Black Cormorant, Red-necked Phalarope, Ruff, Lesser Flamingo, Greater Flamingo, Black Redstart, Common Chiffchaff, Greenish Warbler, Indian Pitta, Eurasian Spoonbill, Glossy Ibis, Baya Weaver, Pacific Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Purple Swamphen, Baillon's Crake, Rufous-fronted Prinia, Grey-breasted Prinia, Plain Prinia, Ashy Prinia, Jungle Prinia, Plum-headed Parakeet, Alexandrine Parakeet, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, Painted Sandgrouse, Red-vented Bulbul, White-browed Bulbul, Pied Avocet, White-throated Fantail, Red-crested Pochard, Sand Martin, Indian Skimmer, Comb Duck, Indian Robin, Crested Serpent Eagle, Changeable Hawk Eagle, Black-bellied Tern, Little Tern, River Tern, Lesser Crested Tern, Great Crested Tern, Caspian Tern, Common Tern, Sandwich Tern, Saunders Tern, Spotted Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove, Oriental Turtle Dove, Laughing Dove, Red Collared Dove, Asian Pied Starling, Brahminy Starling, Rosy Starling, Greater Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Orphean Warbler, Little Grebe, Alpine Swift, Ruddy Shelduck, Common Shelduck, Common Woodshrike, Asian Paradise-flycatcher, Black-headed Ibis, Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Barred Buttonquail, Yellow-legged Buttonquail, Common Hoopoe, Red-wattled Lapwing, White-tailed Lapwing, Yellow-wattled Lapwing, Terek Sandpiper, Oriental White-eye
All the types of nests can be seen here, the ones on tree, on ground and floating nests on water. Here, varieties of ducks make floating nests. For instance, the black-necked storks, which are not found easily anywhere in India, are found here in abundance. According to reports available least 265 to 300 types of migratory birds visit the Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary Jamnagar. People visit sanctuary, which has now become an eco-tourist village. The birds can be seen here from September till February - March. During the winter many an International Bird Watcher and Photographers coming at Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary Jamnagar.
Lakhota Lake presents the sight of a few awe-inspiring species like the gulls, ducks, flamingos, rosy pastors, etc. Where one can find many water birds. Walking in the early mornings especially in the winter months & sitting under the beautiful domes allows you to experience nature with the birds.
Connectivity to Jamnagar
By Road: Jamnagar has a well-established road link to various cities of Gujarat like Rajkot, Porbundar, Bhuj, Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad, Baroda and Surat.
Bus: Government buses go hourly to Rajkot and every 30 minutes to Junagadh; other buses go to Dwarka, Porbandar, Bhuj and Ahmedabad and other places of Gujarat. There are various private bus companies having modern buses in good condition and which are air conditioned; plying between Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Bhuj, Mandvi, Surat, Mumbai, etc.
By Rail: Jamnagar Railway Station is well connected with Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Calcutta and other important cities of India through regular trains. The Saurashtra Mail and the Saurashtra Express are the popular trains that run between Jamnagar and Mumbai. Inter City Train between Jamnagar and Ahmedabad leaves in the early morning. There are also trains to Dwarka.
By Air: Jamnagar Airport 10 km. The Jamnagar airport has a daily Indian Airlines flight connecting with Mumbai. Rajkot (1.5 hours’ drive from Jamnagar has 2 Indian Airlines flights & 2 Jet Airways flights every day.
Climatic Condition of Jamnagar
Jamnagar has a hot semi-aride climate. There are three defined seasons. The hot season lasts from March to May and is extremely hot, humid, but dry, before giving way to the wet season with extremely erratic monsoonal rainfall that averages around 630 millimetres but has varied from less than 100 millimetres
Winter: October end to February
Summer: March to End October
