Navi Mumbai: Red-necked phalarope seen at Panje in Uran after 15 years

TNN | Sep 15, 2018, 09.05 PM IST

NAVI MUMBAI: Two rare wetland birds of the species Red-necked phalarope were seen at the Panje coast in Uran after a gap of nearly 15 years on Friday. Young naturalist and documentary filmmaker Aishwarya Sridhar successfully photographed the two waders at the shore, much to the delight of birdwatchers community.

"The very fact that such a rare wader like Red-necked phalarope is being seen in Panje after so many years once again strengthens the case of protecting the last surviving wetlands of Uran, since so many birds come here, including flamingos," said Aishwarya, who has been filming and documenting the Uran wetlands for nearly a decade, since she was a child.

She added that there are two such waders currently at Panje. This species breeds in Eurasia and travels all the way up to Sri Lanka and New Zealand to spend its winters.

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Rare red-necked phalaropes 'best Scottish season in years'

3 November 2015

A bird described as an "extremely rare" visitor to the UK has had one its best breeding seasons in years in Scotland.

Red-necked phalaropes migrate to the Western Isles and to Orkney and Shetland during the summer.

Thirty-six breeding males were counted on RSPB Scotland's reserve in Fetlar, Shetland, equalling the highest number that has ever been recorded there.

A pair also bred at an RSPB reserve at Balranald in North Uist for the first time in 31 years.

Argyll, the most southerly the birds breed in the UK, had its best year on record with six males present, RSPB Scotland said.

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Tiny tag reveals record-breaking bird migration

January 2014: A tracking device, which weighs less than a paperclip, has helped scientists uncover one of the world’s great bird migrations.

It revealed that red-necked phalaropes in shetland migrate thousands of miles west, across the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean; a journey never recorded for any other European breeding bird.

In 2012 the RSPB, working in collaboration with the Swiss Ornithological Institute and Dave Okill of the Shetland Ringing Group, fitted individual geolocators to ten red-necked phalaropes nesting on the island of Fetlar in Shetland, in the hope of learning where they spend the winter.

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Rare birds sighted on southern coast

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 3: 

Rare bird species such as the red-necked phalarope (pambarakkada) and a tiny wader that swims in open sea have been sighted during the first pelagic bird expedition in southern Kerala.

Red-necked phalarope was sighted in Neendakara in Kollam district for the first time on the Kerala coast, a release said here today.

Streaked shearwater (Varayan thiravetti), another rare bird, was sighted twice by birdwatchers who participated in the event, which concluded on October 1, and carried out transects from Neendakara to Kollam for two days.

The transects included both deep-sea and offshore birding, following fishing boats.

The birdwatchers also recorded several migratory seabirds including swinhoe’s storm-petrels, Wilson’s storm-petrels, flesh-footed shearwaters, Arctic skua, masked booby, bridled terns and sooty terns during the expedition.

Birdwatchers from different birdwatching societies such as Malabar Natural History Society (MNHS), Kerala Birder and Travancore Nature History Society (TNHS) participated in the event.

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