Monday, 3 December 2018

Thattekad, Munnar & Chinnar - Kerala Camp Report

Dear Nature Lovers

OikoEssence along with its participants had a lovely time in Kerala. Days were full of observing Biodiversity, learning local culture and off-course devouring local food.

Kerala has almost recovered from the flood effects and the routine has started normally.
During this camp we visited Thattekad, Chinnar wildlife Sanctury , eravikulum National ParkEand Munnar. The performances we saw of Kathakali and Kalaripayyattu (Considered as oldest Marshal Art) were amazing.

The forest is charming that supports a vast variety Flora and Fauna. We visited tropical evergreen, deciduous and Shola forest types.  We also got to see the remaining mass flowering of neel-kurunji.

Following is the list of sighted fauna –

Butterflies:

1.       Chocolate pansy
2.       Oakleaf
3.       Commander
4.       Common sailor
5.       Common crow
6.       Monkey puzzle
7.       Paris peacock
8.       Dark palm dart
9.       Common jazebell
10.   Blue mormon
11.   Common small flat
12.   Common spotted flat
13.   Chestnut bob
14.   Common bluebottle
15.   Common grass yellow
16.   Emigrant
17.   Common mormon
18.   Blue Oakleaf
19.   Psyche
20.   Malabar tree nymph
21.   Blue tiger
22.   Stripped tiger
23.   Plain tiger
24.   Yellow orange tip
25.   Common gull
26.   Rustic
27.   Black prince?
28.   Common pierrot
29.   White fourring
30.   Dark velvet bob
31.   Rice swift
32.   Common fivering
33.   Banded blue pierrot
34.   Common bushbrown
35.   Nigger
36.   Pale grass blue
37.   Metalic cerulian

Arachnids:

  1. Giant woodspider
  2. Debris spider
  3. Signature spider

Amphibians:

  1. Malabar gliding frog
  2. Common Indian Toad
Reptiles:
  1. Orange tailed Skink
  2. Draco
Birds:

1.       Loten's sunbird
2.       Nilgiri woodpecker
3.       Nilgiri flowerpecker
4.       Malabar woodshrike
5.       Racket tailed drongo
6.       Brown capped pygmy woodpecker
7.       Hill myna
8.       Orange minivet
9.       Small minivet
10.   Crimson sunbird
11.   Greater Flameback
12.   Emerald dove
13.   Purple rumped sunbird
14.   Grey fronted green pigeon
15.   Dollar bird
16.   Blyth's starlings
17.   Malabar parakeet
18.   Asian fairy bird
19.   Chestnut headed bee-eater
20.   Purple rumped sunbird
21.   Verditer flycatcher
22.   Flame throated Bulbul
23.   Yellow browed bulbul
24.   Great tit
25.   Banded gray cuckoo
26.   Swiftlets
27.   Ceylon frogmouth
28.   Paradise flycatcher
29.   Large green barbet
30.   Little Cormorant
31.   Whistling teal
32.   Jungle babbler
33.   Oriental magpie robin
34.   Pond heron
35.   Grey Jungle fowl
36.   Common iora
37.   Red rumped swallow
38.   Green bee-eater
39.   Grey treepie
40.   White throated Kingfisher
41.   Ashy wood swallow
42.   Greater caucal
43.   Common myna
44.   Cattle egret
45.   Common Kingfisher
46.   Coppersmith barbet
47.   Ashy drongo
48.   Indian pitta
49.   Great eared nightjar
50.   Jerdon's nightjar
51.   Red whiskered bulbul
52.   Red vented bulbul
53.   Grey wagtail
54.   Indian robin
55.   Brown headed barbet
56.   Black baza
57.   House crow
58.   Large billed crow
59.   White bellied treepie
60.   Red spurfowl
61.   Pied bushchat
62.   Little spider-hunter
63.   Oriental white eye
64.   White bellied drongo
65.   Grey hornbill
66.   House sparrow

Mammals:
  1. Gaur
  2. Nilgiri langur
  3. Barking deer
  4. Nilgiri tahr
  5. Rhesus macaque
  6. Bonnet macaque
Others:

  1. Red legged Millipede

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Now Enjoy the Photographs:

Photos by Mr. Bhaskar P.
























Photos by Rupali G.















Photos by Shreya B.











Photos by Gauri G.








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