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Parambikulam Tiger Reserve- - eBird Checklist - Jan 2011

Where we stayed eBird Checklist - 15 Jan 2011 - Parambikulam Tiger Reserve- HQ-Anappadi - 60 species ( 1 other taxa) A Nature Trip to Parambikulam & Top Slip was organized by MNS on 14,15,16, January 2011.  Departure was on Thursday, 13th night by T. No. 2671 Nilagiri Express to Coimbatore (CBE).  Stay was in the Forest Dept. Dormitory at Parambikulam.  Return was on Sunday, 16th night from Coimbatore by T. No. 2672 Nilagiri Express to Chennai (MAS). I chuckled re-reading the Parambikulam Poem .   Copy pasting my lifer sightings -  Ten bird species I had never seen before - Pompadour green pigeon - what a lovely, musical call! Now called Gray-fronted green Pigeon! Sri Lanka Frogmouth - I was so looking forward to this, and when I think about them now, it still amazes me. If the guide had not actually told me where to look, I just would not have seen them! Brown capped pygymy woodpecker - there were actually a couple in the trees just outside the dorm, so one...

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