TNN | Updated: Feb 20, 2017,
12.00 AM IST
Chennai: Advocate M Santhanaraman
and conservationist T Murugavel stared in disbelief when they spotted a
brahminy kite (Haliastur indus) with
twigs in its beak flying near the TVS showroom on Anna Salai on Friday. Two
days later, they returned there to confirm that their eyes hadn't been playing
tricks on them. It was no illusion - the bird was there at the same spot.
Santhanaraman said the bird was flying from east to west towards Egmore. "Probably, the restoration of Chetpet lake may have attracted the bird to come back to the city," he said.
Director, Institute of Bird Studies, Rishi Valley School V Santharam noted that brahminy kites used to be a common sight in the city. "We, the members of the Madras Naturalists' Society, have seen the bird in Adyar estuary, near Theosophical Society and many other places in south Chennai in the 1980s. But, in the last 20 years, there have been very few brahminy kite sightings in the city," he said.
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