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Activities
- Birding
With
its small lake and extensive fields, Rann Riders offers good
birding at the resort itself. Grey and pond herons, egrets,
pied and white-breasted kingfishers, spotbill, nakta (comb
duck), saras cranes and other birds can be seen at the
waterfront. The bushes are also rich in birds and shikra hawks
have been seen perched on the trees at the resort. The resort
is also a roosting spot for rosy pastor (rose-coloured
starling). The trees also provide suitable nesting areas for
ibises, egrets and pond herons to breed.
Little Rann of Kutch - The Little Rann of
Kutch is a birding paradise and has been declared a Ramsar
Site. During the safaris in the Rann expect to see large
flocks of larks, and other dryland birds like sandgrouse,
coursers, plovers, chats, warblers, babblers, shrikes. Among
the many winter visitors are the houbara bustard and spotted
sandgrouse.
Birding sites near Dasada
Rann Riders is the base to visit the bird-rich Nawa
Talao lake, a number of seasonal wetlands near Dasada, the
village lake of Dasada, the wetland near Patdi fort, In the
monsoon months of July, August and September, lesser florican
visits the grasslands of Surendranagar District to breed and
the vegetation around the wetlands becomes the breeding area
for painted storks, several species of resident ducks and
other waterfowl. .
Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary : Rann Riders is 44
km from Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary, a 105 sq km sanctuary
comprising a large lake and its surrounds. Nalsarovar is
renowned as one of the finest birding places in Western India.
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