Kokkare Bellur village of water birds, Mandya
A Pelican chick walks up to a villager with such confidence that you can immediately tell the comfort level that both the birds and the villagers here have with each others' presence in their lives! The three school girls passing by don't bat an eyelid...
Kokkare Bellur village is situated in Mandya District, 80
kilometers from the state capital, Bangalore. Its landscape
resembles that of a typical dry land with the perennial Shimsha
flowing to its south. Cultivated and fallow fields, cactus hedges
and old and new trees of tamarind, banyan, pipal, babul, gular
or atthi, neem, mother-in-law’s tongue tree, mango, rain tree,
portia, mark the landscape.
For six months of the year, Kokkare Bellur looks like any
other village in South Karnataka. But from December to June
hundreds of spot billed pelicans and painted storks move into
and occupy the tamarind and banyan tree tops, to nest and
breed in the heart of the village. The pelicans arrive first and
settle on the crown of mature large canopied trees, while the
lighter and more agile storks come in a few weeks later and
settle on the outer branches of the same trees. Some trees
are so populated that the nests touch one another. Over the
following six months birds and humans by and large co-exist
peacefully as they have done for generations. It is as if the
entire village gets a two-tiered structure with the humans living
downstairs and the birds living upstairs.
Besides these birds, this tiny village plays host to at least 139
other bird species, including little grebe, grey heron, night heron,
white ibis, purple moorhen, whitespotted fantail flycatcher and
many others.
Source :
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