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261 new cases, 5 deaths recorded in U.T.
The Hindu
The active cases in the Union Territory dropped below the 3,000 mark as 261 new cases were reported against 363 recoveries on Friday.The Union Territory also recorded five COVID-19 deaths to take the
The active cases in the Union Territory dropped below the 3,000 mark as 261 new cases were reported against 363 recoveries on Friday. The Union Territory also recorded five COVID-19 deaths to take the cumulative toll to 1,739. Puducherry registered four deaths and Karaikal one.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.