About
15 kms away from the Bhopal city, Kerwa is a beautiful place that
has everything that a nature lover needs. Natural forest along
with plantations, Kerwa river and the dam, hills, rocks etc makes
it a popular picnic destination for the citizens of Bhopal.
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Golden
Backed Woodpecker
Photo : Mohd. Khalique
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A mix of dry decidous forest with teak plantations, Kerwa is home
to birds like White bellied Drongo, Plum headed parakeet and white
browed fantail flycatcher. It also provides good opportunity to
see some special birds like Black lored yellow tit and beautiful
Black napped monarch flycatcher. We were fortunate enough to see
other birds too like Golden backed Woodpecker with its rappling
like descend from the tree and Red throated flycatcher which was
not that red.
A few Chabutaras (Sitting places) provide a good view to see lot
of birds if you wait there for some time. Place is characterised
by lot of Bird calls that mark the presence of these birds. That
makes us realize how much we miss Mr. Pratap Singh who could so
easily identify birds with their calls. The initial training givent
to us by Mr. Sanjay Thakur in Kerwa during Bird Watching too helps
a lot.
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Birders
in Kerwa - Dec 04, 2006
Photo : Mohd. Khalique
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A Birding trail was marked in this session in and around the nursery
that would help in future birding sessions. Marking was also done
for the species that are present near these spots today. There
were many unidentified birds too, the photographs of these birds
have been sent to the experts for better identification.
Checklist
for Dec 04, 2006
SNO
Common Name Max. Count
1 ASHY PRINIA (2)
2 ASIAN PIED MYNA (4)
3 BLACK DRONGO (6)
4 BLACK LORED YELLOW TIT (1)
5 BLACK NAPPED MONARCH FLYCATCHER (1)
6 BLACK REDSTART (2)
7 BOOTED WARBLER (1)
8 BRAHMINY STARLING (2)
9 CATTLE EGRET (2)
10 COMMON BABBLER (20+)
11 COMMON MYNA (6)
12 COMMON WOODSHRIKE (8)
13 GOLDEN BACKED WOODPECKER (3)
14 GREAT TIT (2)
15 GREY HEADED FLYCATCHER (2)
16 HOUSE CROW (5)
17 HOUSE SPARROW (6)
18 INDIAN TREEPIE (1)
19 IORA (1)
20 LAUGHING DOVE (1)
21 ORIENTAL MAGPIE ROBIN (2)
22 PLUM HEADED PARAKEET (8-10)
23 PURPLE SUNBIRD (2)
24 RED BREASTED FLYCATCHER (2)
25 RED VENTED BULBUL (8-10)
26 ROSE RINGED PARAKEET (4)
27 SPOTTED OWLET (1)
28 WHITE BELLIED DRONGO (6)
29 WHITE BREASTED KINGFISHER (1)
30 WHITE BROWED FANTAIL FLYCATHER (2)
Report
and Documentation By : Parag Bakshi
Photographs By : Mohd Khalique
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