Photos Munambam Pelagic Survey 28Apr 2013

Munambam Pelagic Survey Photos 28 Apr 2013

Pelagic Bird Survey, Munambam 28th Apr 2013

Dear All,

Cochin Natural History Society, under the leadership of Dr.Dileep K G, conducted a Pelagic Bird Survey on Sunday 28^th April from the Munambam Harbour (western coast- north of Kochi, near Cherai, Kerala).We started at 7am from Munambam. The sea was calm and breezy. It was sunny and hot mostly with occasional rain clouds. We travelled approx. 55 kms.  towards west and crossed the point where sea floor drops to 200m depth. We returned by 4.30pm.

The birds we saw were:

1.Flesh footed Shearwater- 25+

2.Arctic Skua.

3.Brown Noddy.

4.Swinhoe`s Storm Petrel.

5.Wilson`s Storm Petrel.

6.Bridled Tern.

7.Greater Crested Tern.

8.Lesser Crested Tern.

9.Common Tern.

10.Whiskered Tern.

The members of the team:Dr.Dileep K G,Praveen J, Dipu.K, E S Praveen, Vishnupriyan, Prasanth Narayanan,Sandeep Das ,Tomz Augustine,Vishnu Sivadas, Dr.Jinesh,Rafy Kallettunkara, ,Venkat Raj,Ajesh,Anwin,Dileep Kumar,Mathews B A,Madhavan Kutty,Sobha Menon,Neetha Geoprge,Tedy N Alias,,Jamsheed,Jayakumar Chellappan,Pradeep Aymanam,Abhilash Chandran and Gopinathan Nair.
We are thankful to Sri.Vasanth who did all to materialize this pelagic trip  and enthusiasticcaly accompanied us in the trip as well as our previous pelagic trip from Munambam.

Click Here for the Google Earth Trip File

Photographs will follow......

Dr.Dileep K G

Vishnupriyan

CNHS

Second Pelagic Birding Trip from the Munanmbam Coast



Pelagic Survey Invitation

 Dear friends,
CNHS is organising one more Pelagic Bird Survey on 28th April from Munambam coast, north of Kochi.
Will be back with report tomorrow,
Vishnu

CNHS Member bags Photography Award

Our member Sri.Vishnu Sivadas has bagged Second Prize in Birds category and Consolation Prize in Mammals category in the All India Photography competition organized by Environment Conservation Group of Cimbatore.The competition was judjed by legendary nature photographer T N A Perumal and M Balan, Bittu Sehgal etc.
Congratulations to him.


Vishnu

Kerala Birdrace 2012 Photos

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