A parallel Margazhi festival: Where birds call the tunes
The Hindu
Being on the Central Asian Flyway, the Pallikaranai Marsh draw birds from Eurasia for their winter s
Being on the Central Asian Flyway, the Pallikaranai Marsh draw birds from Eurasia for their winter sojourn. The exodus from the northern climes towards Pallikaranai includes gulls, plovers and waders, and their presence is strikingly noticeable in the period (December-January) which in Chennai is known as the Margazhi Music Season.
Hence, annually, Care Earth Trust organises a whiste-stop tour of birding hotspots in and around Chennai around this time, calling it Margazhi Pallikaranai Thiruvizha. The annual exercise is in its fourth edition. A press release notes that this year, in addition to the curated wetland walks, a couple of special additions have been planned.
Before information on the special additions, her is a run of the regular field visits.
December 18: Bird-watching walk at the Nanmangalam Reserve Forest
December 24: Bird-watching walk at the Nanmangalam Reserve Forest
December 25: Bird-watching walk at the Pallikaranai Marsh (TNFD Interpretation centre, behind ELCOT)
December 31: Bird-watching walk at the Pallikaranai (TNFD Interpretation centre, behind ELCOT)
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