Dear all, We have seen Indian grey hornbill last week(22-03-2007) in our KAU Vellanikkara campus. It is for the first time we r seing hornills here. There were...
Dear Yesoda: That's interesting sighting!! There are only a handful of sightings of the Common (Indian) Grey Hornbill from KAU campus at Vellanikkara. There...
Dear all, Now that this topic is under discussion, how far does the Indian Grey Hornbill extend into Thrissur dt - i know it occurs in Choolanur Peafowl...
PKR has seen the Indian Grey Hornbills from a the Mukkuthala sacred groves at Marancherry, which is in Thrissur /Malappuram border. He has also sighted the...
Dear Nameer sir, whats the full form of these abreviations?? PKR? is it P.K. Raveendran?? then PPS?? Nameer Ommer <nameer03@...> wrote: PKR has seen the...
Dear friends We ( Raju, Rajasree, Usha, Jayan and Satish) made a visit to a wetland about 50 km from Trivandrum city, Polachira. This is a vast wetland area....
Hi rajasree, Good to see a long list of wetland birds in April .. part. Garganey and Marsh harrier. Keen to know more about the sighting of Pacific (House) ...
Dear all, We would like to share some of the interesting observations during our recent bird watching in our campus (Kerala Agricultural University,...
Hai all, Today(5 th) i seen one nest of Black winged stilt in kumarakom(Malikkayal).I think this is the 4th breeding record from kerala. 3 years back Prasanth...
Dear Rajasree, Nice reporting, we could do with more such lists, but a small request, please make it a point to list the 20 other common species also - "very...
Hi Rajsree and all Good sightings, which is the nearest hill tract there, how far it is from Polachira, the pecific swallow is an interesting observation. Also...
Dear David, Hume's Warbler is only recorded from Bodi Ghat in the Kerala-TN border Devikulam route. So this will be the first for Kerala within the state...
Dear All, Let us make a Bird Survey Calender for the coming season so that all proposed surveys could be accomodated and the birdwatchers can plan their ...
Dear Neethu & Sneha: Your sightings are of interest, particularly that of Heart-spotted Woodpecker and the White-throated Ground Thrush. The former is an...
Dear Kannan, Though I have seen and heard the song of the WT Groundthrush several times, I have never seen the type of courtship display as described by you. ...
Dear Nameer Sir, Sorry, that was a mistake from our part.We'll take care not to make such mistakes again. Thanking you Neethu 'n Sneha ... spotted Woodpecker...
... From: samayaforest <samayaforest@...> Date: 06 Apr 2007 03:45:46 -0700 Subject: [OB] Beginner in South India To: orientalbirding@yahoogroups.com ...
we ( jiyas j lebba , vinod kumar DK , kannan s) have some interesting sightings from KAU campus on 7th april `07 afternoon 5pm.. 1.BLACK BITTERN (near kau...
Hi Kumaran, The following is the observation made by C Sashikumar which I found was quite useful. There were "several" Grey Shrike reports from Kerala in the ...
Dear Praveen, Naveen and Kannanchetta Thankyou for all your responses. Sorry for the delay reply, we were not here for the last days The visit we made was on...
Dear Vishnu Thankyou for the response. I think there is a good population of Barn Owls in Thiruvananthapuram City. We have sighted them many times in the...
Hii all, Once I saw one Grey Shrike sp. at Thattekkad just close to the second (and first also?) nesting Sri Lanka Frogmouth (year 2001). I showed the bird to...
hi all... trhee important sightings, during last half of march. at College of veterinary and animal sciences, Mannuthy, Thrissur.(also called COVAS, vet....
dear Nameer sir, Neethu and Sneha... i was really surprised to hear that white throated ground thrush is a rather rare bitrd in KAU. We, ion veterinary...
FYI, This season during the fall migration, Manu P Malibhagam seems to have photographed an Amur Falcon near Goa - watch out for these birds in our coasts as...
Hi All, I have uploaded an unidentified call in the folder BirdCalls in the files section. Is it that of the jungle owlet? It was recorded at 4 AM from...
Dear Rajsree, thanks for Barn owl info, did you able to check the survival of chicks of barn owl in cities ? How local people watch this?,Are they conservative...