Painted sandgrouse male

Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Hampi, Karnataka

Pic 1 and Pic 2 are female Painted Sandgrouse.
After we are done with Daroji sloth bear sanctuary, we came out of the main sanctuary gate and our driver brother took us to the nearby ground for this beautiful sandgrouse. Obviously our excitement was at its pick because it’s painted sandgrouse. Moreover the driver was so confident that he will easily show us this beautiful bird. That made me more excited. It’s like time ticking for me. Well in a big barren ground he started searching for this bird. You won’t believe it took only 2 minutes for him to find out. He pointed the bird to us. We saw a pair of sandgrouse were foraging on the ground.

Pic 3 and Pic 4 were beautiful Male.
Like Bhigwan you shouldn’t come out of the car otherwise it may fly away specially when the couple don’t have chicks with them. So we started taking pictures from the car window. After we are done with few good shots driver told us to get down and take more good shots. So I have come out of the car, lied in the ground to get some eye level shots keeping a certain distance. So we got these results.

On the last picture can you identify the birds due to the camouflage? One thing I noticed in case of few birds including sandgrouse, if you won’t come out of the car, you can approach those from extreme close. The beautiful birds took all the attention in our evening birding. Thank you god.