The Bushmasters
(Wildlife Tour Organizers)
Are you fed up with seeing only beaches and churches in Goa? Do you or your family need to get away from the everyday maddening traffic, crowd and chaos? Come escape with us into the best wildlife areas of Goa.
Be it bird-watching, nature treks, biking trips, or ‘commando style’ camping in the forest; if it’s out there only the Bushmasters can help you find it for sure!
We understand you don’t want the regular tours, with the regular guides, the regular company and the same old sites! The best part about us is that we tailor fit all trips according to your needs.
That means if you are as lazy and slow as an eighteen hour a day upside down hanging sloth, then so be it; we’ll take you to a place where you can float in an undisturbed jungle stream where ‘bird watching’ means gazing lazily at all the birds coming to you!
But if you’re the ‘lone panther’ on the prowl always looking for adventure and vigorous exercise, then let the Bushmasters select the toughest jungle trail for burning all that excess adrenaline!
Birding Trips
The birding trips though primarily for spotting birds also provide recreation as an early morning/ evening walk in the beautiful green areas of Goa. Birds are amazing creatures, and besides just identifying or noting down names in a note book you get the pleasure of observing them as they feed, preen, sing, and warm themselves in the morning sun. Goa has an amazing variety of birds and tourists come from all over the world to see them.
Equipment; We own at present six pairs of binoculars and one field scope. We’ve also got all the books you’ll need to identify birds on the trip.
North Goa Birding trip
Start; 7 a.m.
Site 1 Soccorro Plateau (Porvorim) Observing of Land birds.
The following are some of the birds observed here; Red Whiskered Bulbuls, Chloropsis, Indian Robin, Oriental Magpie Robin, Rufus Tree Pie, Golden Oriole, Black Hooded Oriole, Munia, Warblers, Ashy Drongo, Racket Tailed Drongo, Green Barbet, Coppersmith Barbet, Plum Headed Parakeet, Rose Ringed Parakeets ,Red Vented Bulbuls, White Vented Bulbuls, Prinia, Common Tailor Bird, Asian Koels, Cuckoo, Jungle Babblers, Pea Fowls, Black Shouldered Kite, Bee Eaters, , Brahminy Kite, Shikra, Common Kestrel, Black kites, Flame backed Woodpeckers, Spotted Doves, Paradise flycatchers, Scarlet Minivets, Common Iora, Purple Sunbird, Flower peckers, Little Pied flycatcher, Chestnut Starlings, Brahminy Starling, Common Myna, etc. etc.
Site 2. Porvorim Stream
Water birds – Darters, Cormorants, Common Coots, Lesser Whistling Ducks, Cotton teals, Egrets, Purple Herons, Pond herons, Grey Herons, Pied Kingfisher, White Breasted Kingfisher, Stork Billed Kingfisher, Bronze wing Jacanas, Common Sandpipers, Plovers, Common Green Shanks, Long Tailed Shrike, Pied Bushchats, Wire Tailed Swallows, etc. etc.
Site 3. Pilerne lake (similar species as above)
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Site 4. Nerul Grassland Birds
Larks, Zitting Cisticolas, Pipits, Marsh Harriers, Rollers, Yellow Wattle Lapwings, Red Wattle Lapwings, etc, etc.
End of trip - 10.30 – 11 am.
Tour Guides.
Nitin Naik;
An experienced bird-watcher Nitin has the eye of an Eagle when it comes to spotting birds! He has visited many places of Goa in his birding excursions including all of Goa’s wildlife sanctuaries namely Molem, Bondla, Cotigao, and Chorao.
Rahul Alvares;
Herpetologist by profession Rahul’s main area of expertise is snakes. Incase of any snakes encountered we have no reason to panic therefore!
For any queries contact Rahul Alvares at
Phone; 91-832-2278740 / 91-832-6510871 / 91-9881961071