CHENNAI: The fever is increasing and migratory birds have started leaving the town.
K V R K Thirunaranan, who’s tracking Pallikaranai along with Perumbakkam marshlands, stated that a large part of the bigger birds have left, while bigger waders which would rather search their own feed at the mudflats are moving today.
The frequent redshank and whimbrel, seldom chased waders which travel a few thousand kilometres from Siberia and Scandinavia, have already been observed this season.
Each year, at least 2 whimbrels are observed in the Kovalam creek or at Perumbakkam marshland.
Sighting whimbrels at a marshland had dwindled in the last couple of years after their habitat was destroyed in several places.
Contrary to the frequent redshank, whimbrels aren’t seen in a hurry, ” he explained.
Thirunaranan also discovered that the ordinary redshanks were fit, with several athletic that the mating plumage — a indication that the birds could become fat through their migration into the Kovalam creek or even Perumbakkam marshland, ” he explained.
A couple of researchers in the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) that are located in the Point Calimere bird refuge in Vedaranayam had ringed the typical redshanks found there.
BNHS deputy manager (ornithology) S Balachandran explained the frequent redshank is located in North Scandinavia, North Italy, Tunisia and Turkey other west and east Siberia.
It winters in areas extending from the Mediterranean to tropical India, Indonesia and Africa and strains in Southern Siberia, Mongolia and Russia’s far east.
From the south, they’re located in marshes, margins of lakes, river banks and estuaries.
Breeding population of the bird species is located in southern Himalayas and north west Sikkim, ” he explained.
At least half a dozen shared redshanks ringed at Point Calimere refuge in TN were in different areas of the planet a couple years after, ” he added.