Birders report sighting of uncommon birds
PANAJI: Birders and amateur bird watchers are still signing praises of a good season, as a veteran birder reported seeing a Lesser Yellow-naped woodpecker 
in the Neturlim wildlife sanctuary recently.
The birders have reported seeing pied avocet,
a spot billed pelican,
brown diver duck,
called ferruginous pochard and bar tailed godwit,
among other uncommonly seen ones, especially in the wetlands in Dhado and Raia.
Some of these are first-time sighting of birds, but Heinz Lainer, reported seeing Lesser Yellow-naped Woodpeckers feeding in a berry-laden tree near Salgini in the Sahyadris on Goa-Karnataka border.
"That's my first sighting of this beautiful and increasingly rare woodpecker species in 6 years!," he wrote to his birder friends.
Lainer said that during his two day halt in the Neturlim wildlife sanctuary, he sighted many familiar birds, but noteworthy among them were Rufous Babblers
near Verlem and a few Black-throated Munias
in the paddyfields of Verlem and Salgini.
While proceeding to Neturlim, he followed a trail to various lakes, including Maina, Curtorim and all of them had a good birdlife, he noted. He reported sighting Lesser Whistling Ducks,
Comb Ducks,
Spotbill Ducks,
Garganeys
, Coot
and River Terns.
He also claimed seeing Fulvous Whistling Duck,
which had not been sighted before in the state, but there was no photographic evidence.
in the Neturlim wildlife sanctuary recently.
The birders have reported seeing pied avocet,
a spot billed pelican,
brown diver duck,
called ferruginous pochard and bar tailed godwit,
among other uncommonly seen ones, especially in the wetlands in Dhado and Raia.
Some of these are first-time sighting of birds, but Heinz Lainer, reported seeing Lesser Yellow-naped Woodpeckers feeding in a berry-laden tree near Salgini in the Sahyadris on Goa-Karnataka border.
"That's my first sighting of this beautiful and increasingly rare woodpecker species in 6 years!," he wrote to his birder friends.
Lainer said that during his two day halt in the Neturlim wildlife sanctuary, he sighted many familiar birds, but noteworthy among them were Rufous Babblers
near Verlem and a few Black-throated Munias
in the paddyfields of Verlem and Salgini.
While proceeding to Neturlim, he followed a trail to various lakes, including Maina, Curtorim and all of them had a good birdlife, he noted. He reported sighting Lesser Whistling Ducks,
Comb Ducks,
Spotbill Ducks,
Garganeys
, Coot
and River Terns.
He also claimed seeing Fulvous Whistling Duck,
which had not been sighted before in the state, but there was no photographic evidence.
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