Pariej
Much has been
said about Gujarat as a birdwatchers paradise. Surprisingly, Pariej is hardly
ever mentioned despite the fact that there exists a bird sanctuary there!
Nonetheless, I have never seen a place so rich with avian fauna in a totally
inhabited and farmed area.
We reached
Pariej from Vadodara (Baroda). Pariej is a large wetland in the middle of
extensive fields in every conceivable direction. The watch tower at the wetland
which comes on the left seems too inadequate to sight much since the birds are
quite far inside...
Nevertheless, driving along the main road for barely a few
hundred yards ahead brings one to a small temple on the right hand side with a
watch tower close to it. This place has immense potential! We saw comb ducks,
wigeon, gadwalls, common teals, sandpipers, shanks, pratincoles, greylag geese,
swamphen, moorhen, plovers, lapwings, munias, weavers, reed warblers, terns,
harriers, red necked falcon, kingfishers, kestrels, shrikes, wagtails, bulbuls... the list is endless.
Some of the sightings captured on camera are attached below.
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| Pied Kingfisher |
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| The Kestrel (f) |
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| Rufous tailed shrike |
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| Black shouldered Kite |
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| White wagtail |
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| Common Greenshank |
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| Blyth's reed warbler |
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| Gadwal pair |
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| Clamorous reed warbler |
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| Eurasian wigeon pair |
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| Comb ducks |
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| Black headed munia |
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| White cheeked bulbul |
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| Little Grebe Juvenile |
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| Long tailed shrike |
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| Common Moorhen |
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| Baya weaver |
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| Blyth's reed warbler |
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| Common Pochard |
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| Red necked falcon |
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