Dear All, We(Sandeep&Vivek) went to Thattekad yesterday.Also Nameer Sir was there with his students.There we got some wonderful sightings. 1.Oriental bay owl-1...
Dear all, We(Sandeep,Vivek,Praveen&Binu) went to Mulankunnathukavu barelands (Thrissur).There we saw a pair of nesting yellow wattled lapwings with two...
Dear Sandeep Where did u see the Oriental Bay Owl? Was it near the watch tower? Last month I saw a Bay Owl perching on a lower branch of a tree near watch...
Dear Sandeep, Congrats on some really kool bird finds! hows that place with regards to the butterflies and reptiles in general,did u have any good sightings of...
Dear Satyan: Its the same place and could even be the same bird.. I got some incredible photos of the Bay Owl, Best NAMEER Satyan Meppayur <satyanmpr@...>...
Dear sathyan mash and all, two months back i photographed O.bay owl near the watch tower,(thattekkad).that was my second sighting from thattekkad.(1st one was...
Dear all, My first and the only sighting of Bay Owl is also from the same location in Feb. 2002. The original posting (& the drama) can be located here. ...
Apologies for cross-posting. But, no one should miss this post on this beautiful bird by any chance. If you are introducing bird-watching to youngsters, use...
Dear Dr. Kalesh, You are right. Balloon Frog is different species. There are mainly two types of Balloon Frogs... 1) Greater Balloon Frog or Greay Balloon Frog...
Hello, Just to clarify do you mean Nyctibatrachus instead of Nasikabatrachus? Or is it a new genus for India? I just bought 'Amphibians of Peninsular India' by...
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Dear all, We are sure that the frog we saw at Thattekad is Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis(as come in the printed media-confirmed by the senior scientist...
Dear Swagat, Kiran, Some links which talks about this species. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasikabatrachidae http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jan252007/213.pdf Me...
Dear all, Two common names have been used for Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, the purple frog and the pig-nosed frog. Cheers Hari ... From: avivekchandran...
dear praveen can you please give a brief idea of the term bird "site fidelity"? jayan Praveen J <painted_stork@...> wrote: Dear all, My first and the...
Dear all, Yes, you are right. 'Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis' is a new species discovered in 2003. And 'Nyctibatrachus' is different species which I have...
Hi there, Site Fidelity means the behaviour of organisms to be seen in the same location again & again. Fidelity means faithfulness. best rgds Praveen ... ...
Of common interest best rgds Praveen ... From: vsram2003 <vsram2003@...> Date: Jun 6, 2007 12:00 PM Subject: [Tamilbirds] Regional Red Data Bird Lists ...
... From: rajesh ramnarayan <rramnarayan@...> Date: Jun 8, 2007 9:30 AM Subject: [bngbirds] Regarding redstart To: bngbirds@yahoogroups.com Dear All, ...
We(Sandeep,Vivek & Santhosh)went to Thattekkad bird sanctuary again on 9-6-07.We stayed there that night and did wonderful birdwatching the next day with the...
Dear all, Continuing the discussion on regional data birds which happened in various e-groups (triggered by V.Santharam) where several people expressed ...
Dear all, Yesterday morning i saw six indian grey hornbills in a small sacred grove (about 20 cents) back to my house(Chembukkavu,Thrissur).They were observed...
Dear all, Twelve Darters were observed starting making nests on a big peepal tree in a temple compound(Sankarankulangara ,Thrissur).Also about thirty...
Dear sir, Now that you mention, I had once witnessed an unsually large flock of Cattle Egrets (>1000) flying from SW to NE over Palakkad town, Kerala forming a...
Hi Sandeep, You might be interested to know that I had also reported some observations on this heronry last season - original message can be found here. ...
dear all rains came and so the threats to heronries. Kuttippuram heronry is again under threat. this time in the form of a waiting place for the vehicles in...
Dear sir, Last season we had observed 6-8 great cormorants on the small tree that you have mentioned.We had seen them last August.The temple authorities might...
Hi Praveen The destination to Andra Pradesh some remote villages.( According to S Subbu) May be they don't like( or they adapt their own place) the heavy SW...
Dear all, We (Sandeep & Vivek) went to Marotichal forest region(outskirts of Chimmony WLS).It was raining through out the trek.There we had some interesting...
Two years back, i shared the good news from Bangalore when Subbu, Prasanth & others discovered a population of Long-billed Vultures close to the town. ...