With over 650 species around Corbett alone, this tour offers a good cross-section of Indian birds. At Corbett, India's oldest national park, you can see the rich overlap of bird species of the Himalayas and the plains. The best birding is from high banks, machans and forest observation towers. The rich Ramganga Valley has a staggering fifty birds of prey including the greatly endangered White-tailed & Pallas's Fish Eagle. While you explore most of the park in open jeeps and elephant-back rides, hikes around the vast buffer forests yield the Brown Dipper, Wall-creeper, Ibisbill, several varieties of forktails and hornbills, the endangered Tawny Fish Owl and the Collared Falconet, one of the smallest birds of prey in the world.

At the pleasant hill-station of Nainital, apart from birding in the coniferous, temperate forests you may visit Gurney House where Jim Corbett was born. On your hike, you see birds like Himalayan Woodpecker in oak forests, Firethroated-Serin and Altai Accentor on grassy slopes and other species like Mountain Scops Owl, Himalayan Griffon, the majestic Lammergier, Northern Goshawk, Mrs. Gould's Sunbird and Scaly-breasted Wren Babbler. On a clear day, you could even catch a glimpse of the Nanda Devi peak (25,800 ft).

Bharatpur, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has one of the largest congregations of migratory and resident bird species in the world. It is an unrivaled breeding site for storks, herons, cormorants and is the wintering ground for several migrant ducks. Geese, Crakes, Snipes, Shanks, Sandpipers and Plovers also exist in sheer volumes. You can extend your itinerary with excursions to adjoining wetlands, reservoirs and a cruise on the Chambal to see the densest population of the Indian Skimmer anywhere in Asia.