*Interim report of Vembanad Water Bird Count 2009* * * Vembanad Water Bird Count Count 2009 was conducted on 17th and 18 th of January 2009. Base camp was...
Dear all, Today morning we {Vivek Chandran & Sandeep Das}went to kole after a short interval.Habitats have changed in different parts of the kole. Sowing was...
Hi Sandeep & Vivek, Did you realise that you were reporting the first record of Eurasian Hobby from Kerala ? :-) More details please.... Also would like to...
Dear friends, Last saturday (31 January 2009) i was lucky to experience a real relieving weekend at my friend Advocate Sureshbabu Thomas' home at Kollad near...
Hi all, Yesterday(1/2/09) was a great day for us (Vivek & Sandeep)in kole regarding birding.As we were not able to go to kole for some days we planned a long...
Dear birders, As part of our B.Sc project we went to thommana paddyfield. There we saw a variety of birds. Some of them include -- 1. black necked ibis 2....
dear sharmila, There was a huge roost of cormorants, darters, egrets etc between kodakara to aaloor 1.5 km from kodakara ( i presume u know the places ) a 30...
Dear Deapesh, Many thanks for sharing the documents..Let me congratulate you for this incredible attempt..This is very useful for a lot of people like me.. ...
hi all, just wanted to update on some interesting sightings from around tvm. 1) pintail/Swinhoe's snipe - Polachira, Chathannoor 2) Oriental Dwark Kingfisher -...
Jayachandran sir, In kodakara i think it is only a roost,i have earlier enquired about it.Do u know about some nest sighting there?Anyways iam going to have a ...
Dear Birders, Today morning I did a birding in the kau campus.These are the bird sightings i got. 1. Large cuckooshrike-2 2. Black drongo-2 3. Black headed...
Dear Sharmila: Good to see your species list.... good reporting ... One clarification though, The Common Hill Myna - I guess was a typo and what you...
People in COF, Try to get a photo of this species - i dont know of any place in kerala (except possibly Chinnar) where this species is "regularly" seen; and...
Just now I spoke abt exactly the same with few people out here.. and hopefully we soon would come out with a photograph!!!, though it is not that an easy...
Hi all, Sorry for the cross posting. Below is a message from Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan, NCBS, Bangalore. Please respond to her directly. I would like to advertise...
Dear all, As some of you may recall or may be aware, four of us are working on a publication titled "Birds of Kerala - Status and Distribution " for which an...
Dear all, Spent the saturday morning at a wetland near Chathanoor, Kollam district which I realised later that it was Polachira; the site I was anyway planning...
Dear friends, For the last two days I have been observing a small group of Black-headed Ibises comprising of 8 to 10 individuals in the Gandhinagar paddy...
when ever i pass through kumarakam i have noticed,one or two barn owls perched on the top of an iron pole situated on the top of co.op bank building...
INDIAN BIRDS Vol 4 No 3 (May–June) 2008 Date of Publication: 30th January 2009 Please visit our website: www.indianbirds.in CONTENS The birds of Sambhar Lake...
On 12th January, at 1300 hrs, Satpal Singh saw six lapwings that he thought were Grey-headed Lapwings at Haripura, Udham Singh Nagar. He managed to take a...
Hi, friends, During my visit on 9/12/08, I could click many species at Kolleru. Due to paucity of time, I was not able to post many pictures. However, these...
Dear all, A short report of our 2nd visit with photographer friends Anoop (Anand) & Manu. Location: Polachira Time: 7:00 AM - 10:30AM Date: 08/02/2009 ...
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hi there, Yesterday evening (sunday, 9 Feb. 2009) i saw more than one thousand yellow wagtails in the paddy fields along the Neendur-Kallara road. It was...
Dear Ajay, During later 1970s P.V.George discovered huge roosts of Yellow Wagtails in Kuttanad by following such swarms of wagtails. A lot of ringing were done...