Trip Report 1999 - 2000

Trip Report: CHAMBAL RIVER (Uttar Pradesh, India), March 4, 2000
Tom & Margot Southerland
www.crosswinds.net/~birdtrips/chambal00.html

.....The Chambal is one of the few places remaining in India with enough unpolluted water that it can support Ganges River Dolphins. We saw several. And we were surprised at how clear the water looked affording views of the river bottom even in water as deep as five or six feet. ........

Trip Report: CHAMBAL RIVER (Uttar Pradesh, India) New Year 1999 - 2000
Robert Wynands & Ulrike Bischler
www.ee.princeton.edu/~vivek/trips/N-India99.html

.....to see the Ater Fort ruin. This was well worth the time: a large complex of thick walls and heavily fortified gates on the outside and lovely courtyards and towers inside. All in ruins, of course, but with most of the ornaments still visible. From the top of the tower one probably has a fantastic view of the Chambal River floodplain if there is no fog.

......embarked in a small motor boat and followed the Chambal River upstream for a total of about 16km, and then turned back. The going was slow because there were so many birds, turtles, crocodiles, and even two river dolphins to watch. The fog had disappeared by now, and we had some perfect photo opportunities. In about three hours we saw a total of some 40 species of birds, among them flamingos, Indian Skimmers resting on a sand bank, an Asian Openbill, Wooly-necked Stork, Eurasian Spoonbill, Whiskered and Black-bellied Tern,.............