Eravikulam National Park delivered stunning Western Ghats endemics. Nilgiri tahr, flycatcher and pipit, black-and-orange flycatcher and Palani laughingthrush obliged within breathtaking montane grassland and forest.

Vietnam’s capital city gardens are a passerines haven. We bagged gray-throated martins, sooty-headed bulbuls and gray-breasted prinia on a Red River island and ‘commixtus’ Asian tit in the Botanical Gardens.