Nature · Binsar
Forest Birding Walk in the Binsar Sanctuary
An early walk on the Binsar ridge with a naturalist, looking for laughingthrushes and the Himalayan woodpecker.
4.74
What you'll do
- 1
Enter at the Sanctuary gate
We are at the gate for opening. The first hour on the ridge road is the best birding of the day and almost nobody is there yet.
- 2
Work the oak and rhododendron
Slow going by design — we stop wherever there is a mixed flock and stay until it moves on.
- 3
Zero Point and the Nanda Devi view
On a clear morning the Nanda Devi range is visible from Zero Point. Tea from the flask, and the checklist to go through.
4.74 · 97 reviews
Shalini Rao
Hyderabad
5.0
Kamla spent half an hour on a single laughingthrush and I learned more in that half hour than in a year of birding on my own.
Peter Nagy
Budapest
5.0
Sixty-one species in three and a half hours. The scope is a proper one, not a toy.
Aditi Sharma
Dehradun
4.0
Cold and damp at 6am even in April. Take more layers than you think you need.
Where we'll meet
Binsar sanctuary gate
Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary, Almora District, Uttarakhand 263628
The main gate on the Almora road. The forest department opens it at 06:00 and we go in with the first group.
Meet your host
Kamla Bisht
Naturalist and bird recorder
Hosting since 201894% response rateSpeaks English, Hindi, Kumaoni
Kamla has run the sanctuary's bird count for six years and keeps the ridge's species list, which currently stands at 214. She carries a scope and will happily spend twenty minutes on one bird rather than ticking a list.
Things to know
- Guests aged 8 and over
- Quiet footwear — this is a walking pace, not a hike
About 5 km on forest roads at an easy pace, but with a lot of standing still.
- Layers
- Binoculars if you have them
- A notebook
- Naturalist
- Entry permits
- Spotting scope
- Checklist
- Tea
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Forest roads are unmetalled and uneven
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start. If the sanctuary is closed for weather we refund in full.
₹1,200/ per guest
October 2026
Start time
You won't be charged yet
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before
Date to be chosen · 06:00
Up to 8 guests
