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Bird watchers won’t be dissatisfied this yr because the Pulicat lagoon and its environment in Nellore district brim with water to beckon the winged guests in a giant approach.
With the foremost reservoirs, which embrace Somasila and Kandaleru, getting bountiful inflows as a result of floods in a number of spells within the Krishna, the arrival of the migratory birds, which embrace the flamingos, to the picturesque lagoon has begun.
“The flora and fauna at the lake, the country’s largest brackish water ecosystem after Chilika Lake in Odisha, is conducive for the arrival of the winged visitors from far away land in large numbers to their winter home this year, coinciding with the northwest monsoon period,” Sullurpeta Divisional Forest Officer (Wildlife) D. Ravindranth Reddy advised Puucho News.
Thousands of native birds thrive at the 759 sq-km Pulicat lagoon, because of good water stream in Arani, Kalangi and Swarnamukhi rivers.
“The arrival of migratory birds can be expected to peak in the next two to three months,” he stated.
Pulicat Lake is the winter residence for a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial birds reminiscent of painted storks, massive and little egrets, gray pelicans, gray herons and water birds reminiscent of northern pintails, black-winged stilts, northern shovellers, widespread teal, seagulls, terns, sandpipers, and the widespread coots.
Egrets, terns, geese, and waders have additionally make a sojourn to the lake in good numbers. Invertebrates reminiscent of prawns, plankton, coelenterates, annelids molluscs and echinoderms thrive as additionally monitor lizards, calotes, cobra, Russell’s viper, and krait, and faculties of fish reminiscent of sable fish, sargin fish, white, black and silver pomfret.
Open-billed storks, little cormorants, spoon payments, Indian moorhens, coots, evening herons, lessor whistling geese have already are available in good numbers to the Nelapattu hen sanctuary, about 10 km from Sullurpeta.
About 189 hen species, together with 50 migratory species, make it to the hen sanctuary, which can be residence to Barringtonia acutangula tree species that may survive even in flooded situation.
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