WINGED WONDERS

The story of migrating birds is the story of a promise to return, flying thousands of miles beset with dangers.

- ANANDA BANERJEE

Since the second half of September, flocks of waders, ducks, songbirds, cranes and raptors have started arriving in the Indian subcontinent to escape the cold and snow of the northern latitudes.

In the second half of October, the annual congregation of Amur Falcons over the Doyang landscape in Nagaland will be a sight to behold—a pit stop before the onward journey to South Africa. If you can't make the trip to Doyang, visit the village of Khichan in Rajasthan, the wintering home of Demoiselle cranes. Gujarat is another birding wonderland in the winter months—from Nal Sarovar in Ahmedabad and the Rann of Kutch (Great and Little Rann), to the Jamnagar coastline along the Marine National Park.