Kazhuveli Bird Sanctuary : Migratory Birds Started Arriving
With the onset of the winter season, hundreds of migratory birds have started arriving at Kazhuveli bird sanctuary.
- Kazhuveli Bird Sanctuary is located in the state of Tamil Nadu.
- It lies adjacent to the Bay of Bengal along the east coast.
- It is one of the major wetlands on the Coromandel Coast after Pulicat Lake.
- The lake is connected to the Bay of Bengal by the Uppukalli Creek and the Yedayanthittu estuary and is visited for nesting by migratory birds on the Central Asian flyway.
- The southern part of the wetland has been reserved land since 2001.
- It is listed as one of Tamil Nadu’s 141 prioritised wetlands, Kazhuveli is also a wetland of international significance and a potential Ramsar site
- Kazhuveli has varied habitats including sloping wetlands preferred by shore birds, darters and waders, birds on floating vegetation and open grasslands preferred by different species of birds and fauna.
- The lake has a feeding ground for long-distance migrants from the cold subarctic regions of Central Asia and Siberia including Black-tailed Godwits, Eurasian Curlew, White Stork, Ruff and Dunlin.
