BIRDS N BIRDING

Kerala the land of beauty laying the shore of Arabian sea and the lap of The Western Ghats.one of the world's ten hottest  'biodiversity hotspot. blessed with more than 550 bird species.

Sanderling തിരക്കാട

                                  Sanderling (Calidris alba) തിരക്കാട  

a winter visitor from Arctic areas. a common wader in the shores of  Kerala, always seen in small flocks.  thick black bill, and leg. chasing with waves and feeding small aquatic animals, penetrate the bill into the sand, and catch the prey. also, race with prey.

Photo from Coast of Kerala 2021 winter season.

common greenshank പച്ചക്കാലി

 

Common Greenshank(Tringa nebularia) പച്ചക്കാലി 

common winter visitor from northern Europe,

long green leg and long narrow black, slightly upward pointed bill.

Black-winged Stilt പവിഴക്കാലി-

Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) -പവിഴക്കാലി-

A winter visitor, (also some breeding population recorded some part of Kerala ie, in Kollam and Kannur district).A common warder in Kerala with long pink legs and long narrow black bill.

ASHY WOOD SWALLOW

Ashy woodswallow 

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PAINTED STORK

BIRDING TOUR OF XMAS DAYS,2020

From 25th December 2020 to 4 days I am on a birding tour in Thrissur District, Kerala.

First day December 25th 

Uppungal Kadavu , near Punnayurkkulam , Thrissur Dist. India · Kerala ·

PAINTED STORK(വർണ്ണക്കൊക്ക്)

Among the water birds of Kerala, the Painted Stork is the most beautiful bird, normally small groups are seen near water bodies, but today from morning surprisingly it is unbelievable, more than five hundred Painted Storks landed on the kole ie Thrissur Kole Wetlands (Malayalam: തൃശൂർ കോൾ പാടങ്ങൾ).

 The Kole Wetlands is one of the largest, highly productive, and threatened wetlands in Kerala and it comes in the Central Asian Flyway of migratory birds.  It gives 40 per cent of Kerala’s rice requirement and acts as the natural drainage system 

 Farmers are preparing the paddy field for cultivation. Tractors are on work, the Golden light of morning spreads around, slowly breezing cool winds pouring the special fragrant of Kole wetland muds.

Egrets, Herons, Bitterns, Storks, and  Ibis are entring the sene group by group. Water hens, Moorhens  Also the Sandpipers, Plovers, and Wild Ducks. The Kites, Harriers, Buzzards, Falcons, and Eagles are soaring, hovering, and flapping around the blue sky. It is quite a normal picture of "Kole} in the months of Dhanu and Makaram, ie middle of December to  January, the cultivation starting time

Insects, worms, flies, reptiles, and small mammals are the good feast of feathered beauties. when the agricultural works starting  all the avian 

KERALA , BIRD'S PARADISE

 KERALA , BIRD'S PARADISE

KERALA BLESSED WITH MORE THAN 500 VARIETY BIRDS.YES IT IS TURE,

FOREST BIRDS, SHOREBIRDS, WATER BIRDS,

 SINGING BIRDS & RAPTORS

DUCKS AND TEALS ARE THE ATTRACTIONS OF WETLANDS,

PLOVERS AND SANDPIPERS ARE MAIN IN SHORE, 

FOREST  BIRDS WITH COLORFUL DRESS, MELODIOUS VOICE,

RAPTORS LIKE

KITE,EAGLE,BUZZARD,HAWK,HOBBY

ALSO OWL AND OWLET

COME AND ENJOY THE WONDER WORLD OF BIRDS