Birding in Ladakh - Aug 2022

Went on a fantastic birding trip to Ladakh between 20-27 August 2022, covering Leh and surrounding areas, Chang La pass, Wari La pass, Hanle Village and Tso Kar lake areas over the span of about 5 days.

The landscape and the nature is a different league and is beautiful beyond compare. The birds and mammals of Ladakh have adapted to the extreme and unforgiving altitude and it was an honour to see such wonderful fauna in their natural habitats.

Thanks to @aviantrips for organising this !!

Birds Identified

1) Eurasian Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus
2) Brown Accentor - Prunella fulvescens
3) Saker Falcon - Falco cherrug
4) Great Rosefinch - Carpodacus rubicilla
5) Bar-headed Goose - Anser indicus
6) Ruddy Shelduck - Tadorna ferruginea
7) Northern Shoveler - Spatula clypeata
8) Northern Pintail - Anas acuta
9) Lesser Sand-Plover - Charadrius mongolus
10) Ground Tit - Pseudopodoces humilis
11) Common House-Martin - Delichon urbicum
12) Blanford's Snowfinch - Montifringilla blanfordi
13) Mongolian Finch - Bucanetes mongolicus
14) European Roller - Coracias garrulus
15) Red-crested Pochard - Netta rufina
16) Eurasian Eagle-Owl - Bubo bubo
17) Garganey - Spatula querquedula
18) Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus
19) Tibetan Lark - Melanocorypha maxima
20) Eurasian Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus
21) Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos
22) Green Sandpiper - Tringa ochropus
23) Eurasian Wryneck - Jynx torquilla
24) Eurasian Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus
25) Bluethroat - Luscinia svecica
26) Desert Wheatear - Oenanthe deserti
27) Western Yellow Wagtail - Motacilla flava
28) Citrine Wagtail - Motacilla citreola
29) Common Merganser - Mergus merganser
30) Black-necked Crane - Grus nigricollis
31) Pallas's Gull - Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
32) Upland Buzzard - Buteo hemilasius
33) Common Raven - Corvus corax
34) Rock Pigeon - Columba livia
35) Common Swift - Apus apus
36) Himalayan Griffon - Gyps himalayensis
37) Golden Eagle - Aquila chrysaetos
38) Yellow-billed Chough - Pyrrhocorax graculus
39) Tickell's Leaf Warbler - Phylloscopus affinis
40) White-browed Tit-Warbler - Leptopoecile sophiae
41) White-throated Dipper - Cinclus cinclus
42) Black-winged Snowfinch - Montifringilla adamsi
43) White Wagtail - Motacilla alba
44) Common Rosefinch - Carpodacus erythrinus
45) Black-headed Mountain Finch - Leucosticte brandti
46) Twite - Linaria flavirostris
47) Tibetan Snowcock - Tetraogallus tibetanus
48) Chukar - Alectoris chukar
49) Hill Pigeon - Columba rupestris
50) Common Cuckoo - Cuculus canorus
51) Little Owl - Athene noctua
52) Eurasian Hoopoe - Upupa epops
53) Red-billed Chough - Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
54) Horned Lark - Eremophila alpestris
55) White-capped Redstart - Phoenicurus leucocephalus
56) White-winged Redstart - Phoenicurus erythrogastrus
57) Black Redstart - Phoenicurus ochruros
58) Robin Accentor - Prunella rubeculoides
59) Oriental Turtle-Dove - Streptopelia orientalis
60) Eurasian Magpie - Pica pica
61) Mountain Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus sindianus
62) House Sparrow - Passer domesticus