Somehow had missed out on posting this one. Jugal our naturalist and bird guide had mentioned this bird "Hoopoe Lark" was a specialty of Great Rann of Kutch. We went out looking for this in Great rann of Kutch. This bird partly resembles the common Hoopoe and hence it gets its name. The peculiarity with this bird is every time it would allow us to get closer and once we settle down the bird would start running. The bird every time it runs on wet soil the foot marks were immediately baked by kutch heat highlighted by the exposed salt.

Hoopoe Lark footprints


After two hours of running behind we almost gave up and got on to the vehicle thinking of going back. Magically the bird suddenly approached us close and climbed on to a nearby shrub giving us eye level shot from the vehicle itself. After running behind the bird by foot it was ironical the way we finally managed to make images of this bird.

Hoopoe Lark - Potrait