24 December 2007

White Tailed Eagle in Sultanpur !!!

We heard the Delhi bird group were going to Sultanpur, so we were happy to go again. We reached there at the given time, but unfortunately we could not see any one from the Delhi bird group, except for one member. We headed straight to the water hole. A couple of egrets seemed to have welcome dance or something going, it was a fascinating sight.


This one we assumed was a Juvenile Imperial Eagle. It was really naughty, it was having a great time circling around low, swooping down on to the ducks, but we did not see it catching any. To make sure of the ID, we posted it to Bird Forum...... and la behold.... we were told it was a White Tailed Eagle. We posted for ID again to Delhi Bird Net.... again it was confirmed that it is a White Tailed Eagle & it was told to us, it is a winter visitor & it has been sighted after 1970

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