Discover Desert Adventures with Heaven In Desert

Embark on a journey of a lifetime in Jaisalmer’s Golden City with our expertly guided desert experiences.

Discover Desert Adventures with Heaven In Desert

Embark on a journey of a lifetime in Jaisalmer’s Golden City with our expertly guided desert experiences.

Birding & Wildlife Safari – Desert National Park

If you are a nature lover looking for an adventurous holiday, a birding and wildlife safari at Desert National Park is a perfect choice. Located in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, the park spans an impressive 3,000 square kilometres, showcasing the rich biodiversity of the Thar Desert.

Unique Desert Ecosystem

The park is characterized by vast sand dunes, rocky landscapes, and thorny desert vegetation. Despite its harsh and arid conditions, it supports a remarkable variety of wildlife and bird species.

Wildlife Highlights
  • Great Indian Bustard (critically endangered)
  • Desert Fox
  • Blackbuck & Chinkara
  • Desert Cat
  • Spiny-tailed Lizard
  • Numerous migratory and resident birds
Safari Experience

Visitors can explore the park through Jeep Safaris and Camel Safaris, offering excellent opportunities to spot wildlife against the stunning desert backdrop. The vast open landscapes and peaceful silence make the safari experience truly unforgettable.

Conservation Significance

Desert National Park plays a vital role in conserving the habitat of the Great Indian Bustard, one of the rarest birds in the world, making it one of India’s most important desert protected areas.

Popular Birds at Desert National Park

A paradise for birdwatchers, the park is home to many rare and unique bird species that are difficult to spot elsewhere. If you connect with Heaven in Desert before your trip, you can receive updates on recent bird sightings in different regions of the park.

Birding & Wildlife Safari Package Charges

Great Indian Bustard

Asian Houbara/Macqueen Bustard

Cream coloured courser

Tawny Eagle

Eastern imperial eagle

Booted eagle

Bonelli’s eagle

Greater spotted eagle

Indian spotted eagle

Short-toed snake eagle

Red headed vulture

White rumped vulture

Indian vulture/ long billed vulture

Egyptian vulture

Eurasian griffon vulture

Himalayan vulture

Cinereous vulture

Laggar falcon

Red necked falcon

Merlin

Eurasian sparrowhawk

Sikara

Demoiselle crane

Common crane

Long legged buzzard

White eyed buzzard

Common buzzard

Montagu’s harrier

Pallid harrier

Marsh harrier

Eurasian eagle-owl

Short-eared owl

Barn owl

Spotted owlet

Indian courser

Sociable lapwing

White tailed lapwing

Red wattled lapwing

Indian Thick-knee

Desert wheatear

Isabelline wheatear

Variable wheatear

Red-tailed wheatear

Greater hoopoe-lark

Desert lark

Bimaculated lark

Black-crowned sparrow-lark

Ashy-crowned sparrow-lark

Crested lark

Greater short-toed lark

Rufous-tailed lark

Red-backed shrike

Great grey shrike

Red-tailed shrike

Isabelline shrike

Bay-backed shrike

European nightjar

Savanna nightjar

Sykes’s nightjar

Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse

Black bellied sandgrouse

Asian desert warbler

Western Orphean warbler

Plain leaf warbler

Paddyfield warbler

Tree pipit

Water pipit

Tawny pipit

Long-billed pipit

Paddyfield pipit

European roller

Indian roller

Trumpeter finch

White browed bushchat

Siberian stonechat

House sparrow

Sindh sparrow

Spanish sparrow

Yellow-throated sparrow

Green bee eater

Blue-cheeked bee-eater

Rufous-tailed scrub robin

Indian robin

Common starling

Rosy starlight

Brahminy starling

Common cuckoo

Jacobin cuckoo

Red collared dove

Eurasian collared dove

Laughing dove

Yellow eyed pigeon

Striolated bunting

Black redstart

Bluethroat

Common babbler

Jungle babbler

Common whitethroat

Lesser whitethroat

Plain prinia

Barn swallow

Panjab Raven

Black drongo

White throated kingfisher

Common hoopoe

Grey-necked bunting

Rock bunting

White eared bulbul

Red vented bulbul

Grey hypocolius

Eurasian wryneck

Indian silverbill

Purple sunbird

Red-breasted flycatcher

Spotted flycatcher

Great Indian Bustard

Rufous-Tailed Scrub Robin

Spotted Flycatcher

Red-backed Shrike

Red-tailed Shrike

Common Whitethroat

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

Greater Hoopoe Lark

Desert Lark

Cream-coloured Courser

Indian Courser

Indian Eagle Owl

Punjab Raven

Indian Culture

White-rumped Vulture

Egyptian Vulture

Red-headed Vulture

Laggar Falcon

Tawny Eagle

Black-crowned Sparrow Lark

Orphean Warbler

Eurasian Wryneck

Wheatears

Larks

Pipits

Sandgrouse

Francolin

Desert Cat

Desert Fox

Bluebill

Indian Fox

Hedgehog

Desert Jerd

Indian Gazelle

Sochurek’s Saw-scaled Viper

Toad-headed Agama

Brilliant Ground Agama

Fringed-toed Lizard

Rock Gecko

Desert Monitor

Spiny-tailed Lizard