17 June 2012
As part of CBC efforts, the density and kind of birds at Forest Academy campus in Coimbatore is undertaken. As usual it is an early Sunday morning with my 2 kids. The forest campus is about 4 sq km and is one of the oldest surviving green cover in Coimbatore. This is situated in RS Puram.
This effort is taken as part of their forthcoming centenary celebrations. A team of 16 of us were there and spent about 3 quality hours in identifying the species.
The list of species identified are
1. House Crow
2. Jungle Crow
3. Common Myna
4. Black Kite
5. Shikra
6. Peacock
7. Grey Francolin
8. Common Hoopoe
9. Rocket Tailed Drongo
10. Ashy Drongo
11. Yellow wattled Lapwing
12. Red wattled Lapwing
13. Feral Pigeon
14. Blue Rock pigeon
15. Spotted owlet
16. Common Hawk cookoo
17. Yellow billed babbler
18. PR Sun bird
19. Tailor bird
20. Indian Pond heron
21. Rufous tree pie
22. Rose ringed parakeet
And many more
It was interesting to see lapwings of both - red wattled and yellow wattled were together, Also, interesting was to see a chick of YW Lapwing. We also had opportunity to see racket tailed drongo for the first time. Kites were in plenty of Black Kites type.
Blue Rock Pigeons
Yellow & Red Wattled Lapwings
Yellow wattled Lapwings
Grey Francolin
Shikra
Rocket Tailed Drongo
Black Kite
Stray dogs were really plenty and we suspect them responsible for reduction of ground dwelling and breeding birds such as these Lapwings, Grey Francolin and Peafowls.
The Hindu, Coimbatore edition covered this event on 18th June 2012.
As part of CBC efforts, the density and kind of birds at Forest Academy campus in Coimbatore is undertaken. As usual it is an early Sunday morning with my 2 kids. The forest campus is about 4 sq km and is one of the oldest surviving green cover in Coimbatore. This is situated in RS Puram.
This effort is taken as part of their forthcoming centenary celebrations. A team of 16 of us were there and spent about 3 quality hours in identifying the species.
The list of species identified are
1. House Crow
2. Jungle Crow
3. Common Myna
4. Black Kite
5. Shikra
6. Peacock
7. Grey Francolin
8. Common Hoopoe
9. Rocket Tailed Drongo
10. Ashy Drongo
11. Yellow wattled Lapwing
12. Red wattled Lapwing
13. Feral Pigeon
14. Blue Rock pigeon
15. Spotted owlet
16. Common Hawk cookoo
17. Yellow billed babbler
18. PR Sun bird
19. Tailor bird
20. Indian Pond heron
21. Rufous tree pie
22. Rose ringed parakeet
And many more
It was interesting to see lapwings of both - red wattled and yellow wattled were together, Also, interesting was to see a chick of YW Lapwing. We also had opportunity to see racket tailed drongo for the first time. Kites were in plenty of Black Kites type.
Blue Rock Pigeons
Yellow & Red Wattled Lapwings
Yellow wattled Lapwings
Grey Francolin
Shikra
Rocket Tailed Drongo
Black Kite
Stray dogs were really plenty and we suspect them responsible for reduction of ground dwelling and breeding birds such as these Lapwings, Grey Francolin and Peafowls.
The Hindu, Coimbatore edition covered this event on 18th June 2012.
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