{"id":5700,"date":"2011-03-14T00:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T18:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2011-03-14T00:18:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T18:48:56","slug":"birds-of-hampi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/birds-of-hampi.html","title":{"rendered":"Birds of Hampi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hampi is well known for its heritage sites and the ruins of Vijayanagar Kingdom. But very few people go past these structures to discover the riches of Hampi. When we announced &#8216;Darter Many Worlds of Hampi&#8217; Photography Tour, one of the intents was to introduce the facets of Hampi that is relatively less known to travelers. One such face of Hampi is its precious wildlife. In the two tours that we did to Hampi, we managed to capture a variety of birds &#8211; some commonly found and some very endemic to Hampi and not easily seen in other places. Here is a compilation of images of birds that I captured in Hampi during my visits in the months of January and February. Coming up in next post is images of heritage sites of Hampi.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many Worlds of Hampi is a photography tour from Darter Photography Tours, a venture created by me and wildlife photographer Shreeram MV. We recently concluded two highly successful tours to Hampi. Our upcoming tours and workshop include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Photography Workshop in Bangalore\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/announcing-darter-workshop-on-digital-photography.html\">Photography workshop in Bangalore<\/a> on March 26th and 27th<\/li>\n<li>Mountains and Monasteries, a <a title=\"Ladakh Photography Tour\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/photography-tour-ladakh.html\">Photography Tour of Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Join our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/darterphoto\">facebook page<\/a> to stay updated on upcoming tours and workshops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5701\" title=\"Ashy Crowned Sparrow Lark\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ashy_crowned_sparrow_lark.jpg\" alt=\"Ashy Crowned Sparrow Lark\" width=\"507\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashy Crowned Sparrow Lark<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5702\" title=\"black redstart\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/black_redstart.jpg\" alt=\"black redstart\" width=\"620\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/black_redstart.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/black_redstart-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black Redstart<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5703\" title=\"common sandpiper\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/common_sandpiper.jpg\" alt=\"common sandpiper\" width=\"620\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/common_sandpiper.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/common_sandpiper-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Common Sandpiper<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5704\" title=\"indian robin\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/indian_robin.jpg\" alt=\"indian robin\" width=\"620\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/indian_robin.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/indian_robin-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indian Robin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5705\" title=\"little cormorant\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/little_cormorant.jpg\" alt=\"little cormorant\" width=\"620\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/little_cormorant.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/little_cormorant-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Little Cormorant<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5706\" title=\"painted sandgrouse\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/painted_sandgrouse_2.jpg\" alt=\"painted sandgrouse\" width=\"620\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/painted_sandgrouse_2.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/painted_sandgrouse_2-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Painted Sandgrouse &#8211; female<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5715\" title=\"painted sandgrouse\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/painted_sandgrouse_4.jpg\" alt=\"painted sandgrouse\" width=\"620\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/painted_sandgrouse_4.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/painted_sandgrouse_4-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Painted Sandgrouse &#8211; Male<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5709\" title=\"rufous tailed lark\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rufous_tailed_lark.jpg\" alt=\"rufous tailed lark\" width=\"620\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rufous_tailed_lark.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rufous_tailed_lark-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rufous Tailed Lark<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5710\" title=\"sirkeer malkoha\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sirkeer_malkoha_2.jpg\" alt=\"sirkeer malkoha\" width=\"620\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sirkeer_malkoha_2.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sirkeer_malkoha_2-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sirkeer Malkoha<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5711\" title=\"white browed bulbul\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/white_browed_bulbul.jpg\" alt=\"white browed bulbul\" width=\"620\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/white_browed_bulbul.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/white_browed_bulbul-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>White Browed Bulbul<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5713\" title=\"grey francolin\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/grey_francolin.jpg\" alt=\"grey francolin\" width=\"529\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/grey_francolin.jpg 529w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/grey_francolin-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grey Francolin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5714\" title=\"plain prinia\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plain_prinia_2.jpg\" alt=\"plain prinia\" width=\"620\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plain_prinia_2.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plain_prinia_2-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plain Prinia<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5708\" title=\"peahen\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/peahen.jpg\" alt=\"peahen\" width=\"620\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/peahen.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/peahen-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peahen<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5712\" title=\"yellow throated bulbul\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/yellow_throated_bulbul.jpg\" alt=\"yellow throated bulbul\" width=\"620\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/yellow_throated_bulbul.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/yellow_throated_bulbul-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coming up next: Heritage sites of Hampi.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prints of the image available.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imagegallery.paintedstork.com\/contact-print\/\">Request for prints<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hampi is well known for its heritage sites and the ruins of Vijayanagar Kingdom. But very few people go past these structures to discover the riches of Hampi. When we announced &#8216;Darter Many Worlds of Hampi&#8217; Photography Tour, one of the intents was to introduce the facets of Hampi that is relatively less known to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[91,281,23,112,59],"tags":[543,552,84],"class_list":["post-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-darter","category-karnataka","category-photo-essay","category-wildlife","tag-birds","tag-darter","tag-hampi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-1tW","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5719,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions\/5719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}