Last updated: October 2026 · Method: built from published site information and recurring traveller reports; figures approximate, verify on site.
📄 Image slot — dozens of vultures settled around a desert scrubland site at dawn.
On Bikaner’s eastern edge sits a vulture conservation reserve of genuine international importance, a conservation reserve where the region’s dwindling vultures feed, and where winter mornings fill the skies with them.
What it is and how it works
- The premise: a managed carcass-feeding site, the pragmatic answer to the vulture crash that followed the veterinary-drug crisis, giving the birds a safe, reliable food supply.
- The spectacle: December-February mornings bring together hundreds of vultures (several species)plus eagles; a birder’s pilgrimage that general tourists rarely hear of.
- Access rules: this is a working reserve with strict viewing distances and forest-department control, go with a local birder or guide, follow the marked lines exactly, and photograph from the permitted positions only.
Who it suits: birders and wildlife photographers with patience; the squeamish should read what the reserve is before deciding, the wider birding guide is the gentler alternative.