Greater Flamingo @ Ezhupunnna Wetlands

Day before yesterday, that is 9th of Sep, 2015, Dr. PJ George called me and informed me about a Greater Flamingo in Ezhupunna Wetlands. Immediately I went there with Dhanush and spotted the beauty. It was far and the sun was setting and did not try to take any photograph.

Today with Dhanush and George sir, we want to find it again. We started our birding around 8:00AM at Kadamakudy.

SL. No.	Species	Count
1	Lesser Whistling-Duck	11
2	Little Grebe	5
3	Indian Cormorant	3
4	Little Cormorant	20
5	Oriental Darter	2
6	Grey Heron	8
7	Purple Heron	2
8	Great Egret	2
9	Intermediate Egret	1
10	Little Egret	4
11	Indian Pond-Heron	5
12	Glossy Ibis	2
13	Black-headed Ibis	2
14	Osprey	1
15	Shikra	1
16	Brahminy Kite	6
17	Grey-headed Swamphen	3
18	Black-winged Stilt	40
19	Red-wattled Lapwing	2
20	plover sp.	3
21	Common Sandpiper	3
22	Marsh Sandpiper	1
23	Common Redshank	45
24	Gull-billed Tern	2
25	Whiskered Tern	3
26	River Tern	1
27	tern sp.	1
28	Asian Koel	1
29	Common Kingfisher	1
30	White-throated Kingfisher	2
31	Black Drongo	2
32	House Crow	2
33	Ashy Prinia	2
34	Plain Prinia	3
35	Common Myna	5
36	Tricolored Munia	3

More details can be found by visiting this eBird checklist.

After finish at Kadamakudy, we headed towards Ezhupunna where the Greater Flamingo was still present. The other attraction from here are the three Spot-billed Pelicans, Greater Painted-snipe, Curlew Sandpiper and the Pied Cuckoo which are yearly ticks for me.

SL. No.	Species	Count
1	Lesser Whistling-Duck	6
2	Indian Spot-billed Duck	5
3	Greater Flamingo	1
4	Painted Stork	1
5	Little Cormorant	6
6	Spot-billed Pelican	2
7	Grey Heron	5
8	Little Egret	4
9	Western Reef-Heron	2
10	Cattle Egret	1
11	Indian Pond-Heron	5
12	Glossy Ibis	1
13	Black-headed Ibis	25
14	Eurasian Spoonbill	8
15	Brahminy Kite	4
16	Black-winged Stilt	20
17	Red-wattled Lapwing	2
18	Lesser Sand-Plover	3
19	Greater Painted-Snipe	1
20	Marsh Sandpiper	2
21	Wood Sandpiper	8
22	Common Redshank	5
23	Whimbrel	1
24	Black-tailed Godwit	40
25	Broad-billed Sandpiper	5
26	Curlew Sandpiper	1
27	Sanderling	1
28	Little Stint	2
29	gull sp.	1
30	Gull-billed Tern	20
31	Whiskered Tern	5
32	Stork-billed Kingfisher	1
33	Black-rumped Flameback	1
34	Black Drongo	2
35	House Crow	1

More details can be found by visiting this eBird checklist.

We continued to Kallara. There was nothing much to report apart from the typical ones.

SL No.	Species	Count
1	Little Cormorant	4
2	Purple Heron	1
3	Cattle Egret	15
4	white egret sp.	2
5	Indian Pond-Heron	3
6	Black-headed Ibis	1
7	White-throated Kingfisher	2
8	Black Drongo	10
9	Barn Swallow	5
10	Common Myna	40
11	Jungle Myna	50
12	pipit sp.	1

More details can be found by visiting this eBird checklist.

We did a couple of stops in different areas of Kallara before we ended our trip for the day.

SL No.	Species	Count
1	Lesser Whistling-Duck	5
2	Cotton Pygmy-Goose	1
3	Wood Sandpiper	7
4	White-throated Kingfisher	2
5	Barn Swallow	30

More details can be found by visiting this eBird checklist.

This is again Kallara and our last birding spot for the day.

SL No.	Species	Count
1	Lesser Whistling-Duck	7
2	Little Cormorant	8
3	Oriental Darter	1
4	Grey Heron	2
5	Purple Heron	1
6	Intermediate Egret	1
7	Little Egret	2
8	Cattle Egret	3
9	white egret sp.	3
10	Indian Pond-Heron	3
11	Black-headed Ibis	1
12	Black-winged Stilt	30
13	Pacific Golden-Plover	4
14	Red-wattled Lapwing	8
15	Common Sandpiper	5
16	Common Greenshank	4
17	Marsh Sandpiper	2
18	Wood Sandpiper	5
19	Common Redshank	1
20	Ruff	4
21	Feral Pigeon	2
22	Asian Koel	2
23	Greater Coucal	1
24	Stork-billed Kingfisher	2
25	White-throated Kingfisher	1
26	Common Tailorbird	1