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Boating suspended at Thekkadi
The Hindu
GUDALURBoating in Thekkady had been temporarily suspended from Monday onwards due to rising water level and widespread rain in the catchment areas of Mullaperiyar dam and Thekkadi, officials said on S
GUDALUR
Boating in Thekkady had been temporarily suspended from Monday onwards due to rising water level and widespread rain in the catchment areas of Mullaperiyar dam and Thekkadi, officials said on Sunday.
Kerala Tourism Department were organising boating for 90 minutes from 7.30 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 11.15 a.m., 1.45 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. through Janaraja, Jalaraja, Jalayatra, Jalajyoti, Vanalakshmi and Jalatharangini boats.
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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.