As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Monday 6 January 2014

Rare bird spotted after 60 years

NEW DELHI: A bird endemic to the Himalayan foothills and Western Ghats was spotted at Aravalli Biodiversity Park near Vasant Kunj recently. According to scientists at the park, Indian Pitta, a small and colourful bird which is mainly seen in closed-canopy forests, was spotted in Delhi after 60 years.

Its sighting was last reported by ornithologist Usha Ganguli in her book-A Guide to the Birds of Delhi. "The sighting is special because it was seen in the mining pits which we have converted in to moist forests. We have experimented by planting evergreen species in these ravaged pits of Aravalis. It was a wasteland earlier. The bird found the kind of atmosphere it requires here," said scientist in charge, M Shah Hussain.

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