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Ranganathittu is a popular nesting site and about 8,000 nestlings were sighted during June 2011. [12] About 50 pelicans have made Ranganathittu their permanent home. [10] During winter months, starting from mid-December, as many as 40,000 birds congregate at Ranganathittu, some migrating from Siberia, Latin America and parts of north India. [13]
Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary in the Madurantakam taluk of the Chengalpattu district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Established in 1936, it is the oldest wildlife sanctuary in India. It has been designated as a protected Ramsar site since 2022. More than 40,000 birds have been recorded in the sanctuary during the migratory ...
[34] [35] However most bird migration is in the range of 150 to 600 m (490–2,000 ft). Bird strike Aviation records from the United States show most collisions occur below 600 m (2,000 ft) and almost none above 1,800 m (5,900 ft). [36] Bird migration is not limited to birds that can fly. Most species of penguin (Spheniscidae) migrate by ...
The Indian blue robin (Larvivora brunnea) is a small bird found in the Indian Subcontinent. Formerly considered a thrush, it is now considered one of the Old World flycatchers in the family Muscicapidae. It was earlier also called the Indian blue chat. It is migratory, breeding in the forests along the Himalayas of Nepal, India, Myanmar and ...
This annual bird migration began with around a hundred cranes in the 1970s, when a local couple started feeding pigeons. Other villagers joined their efforts, and as of 2014, Khichan now hosts over 30,000 demoiselle cranes from as early as August each year to as late as March of the following year.
The Indian pitta (Pitta brachyura) is a passerine bird native to the Indian subcontinent.It inhabits scrub jungle, deciduous and dense evergreen forest.It breeds in the forests of the Himalayas, hills of central and western India, and migrates to other parts of the peninsula in winter.
The black baza (Aviceda leuphotes) is a small bird of prey found in the forests of Northeast India, the eastern Himalayas, China and Southeast Asia. Many populations are migratory, including those in the Indian region, which winter in the south of the Peninsula and Sri Lanka. Black bazas have short, stout legs and feet with strong talons, and a ...
Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Bangalore. Birdwatchers' Field Club of Bangalore. Koelz, W. (1942). "Notes on the birds of the Londa neighbourhood, Bombay Presidency". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 43: 11– 38. Whistler, H. & Kinnear, N. B. (1931–1937). "The Vernay Scientific Survey of the Eastern Ghats (Ornithological ...