[1]Bird watchers and wildlife enthusiasts are excited about the recent sightings of Collared Pranticoles and flamingos at the Pallikaranai marsh despite less water this season.
Even as Pallikaranai has been making headlines for its unchecked air and water pollution, the bio rich marsh has never failed to attract migratory birds.
Despite frequent burning of garbage and sewerage being drained into the marsh, bird watchers sighted some unusual visitors last month.
According to Mr K.V.R.K .Thirunaranan, founder of The Nature Trust, the recent sightings of flamingo and pranticole was a visual delight.
“It has been almost four years. I had noticed a lonely flamingo in 2008,” he recalled.
Though the pranticole does not come under the endangered list, the sighting of this rare migratory wading bird was a testimony to the bio richness of Pallikaranai marsh, he added.
“Veteran ornithologists attached to Madras Naturalists’ Society have told me stories about how flamingos were once regular visitors along the Adyar estuary but now very rarely they visit the back waters in Chennai.
To sight flamingos now one has to travel up to the Pulicat Lake bordering Andhra Pradesh,” said Mr N. Balaji, a bird watcher and a software professional.
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