Palghar Nature Outing Report

 

This outing was focused on marine as well as terrestrial diversity. We got valuable knowledge from our Local expertise Mr. Bhushan Bhoir. 

We visited a coir factory as well. It is an initiative taken by Mr. Save a local youth who started this business in Lockdown.

Few photographs of Plants...

Hyphaene dichotoma (Unique branching Palm)

Oxalis minima

Banyan

Mallotus philippensis

Seed dispersal of Calotropis gigantia (Rui)

List of Sightings 

Butterfly

Common tiger

Striped tiger

Blue tiger

Sailor

Castor

Common crow 

Red pierrot

Small Salmon Arab

Common Jezebel

Birds

House crow 

House Sparrow

Spotted dove

Yellow footed green pigeon 

Black kite

White-spotted Fantail

Rosy starling

Common myna 

Blue rock pigeon 

Intermediate egret

Little egret

Asian spoonbill

Common redshank

Red-wattled lapwing

Ashy drongo

Black drongo

Coppersmith barbet

Little cormorant

Greater coucal

Purple heron

Pipit

Grey heron

Paddyfield pipit

Little-ringed plover

Ashy prinia

Common sandpiper

Black-winged stilt

Indian roller

White-breasted waterhen

Rose-ringed parakeet

Purple-rumped sunbird

Barn swallow 

House swift

Red Whiskered Bulbul

Yellow wagtail

White wagtail

Oriental magpie robin

Indian roller 

Red vented bulbul

Red whiskered bulbul

Marine fauna

Oyster shell

Sand bubbler crab

Ghost crab

Decorator crab

Hermit crab

Sea hare

Barnacle

Sea Hare

Sea weed - Sargassum

Other Sightings

Three striped squirrel (Mammals)

Skink (Reptile)

Our Group