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Cauvery Theerthodbhava at Talacauvery on Oct. 17
The Hindu
•Meeting chaired by Minister in-charge of Kodagu to decide on whether to allow devotees to witness the divine occurrence as the public was barred from visiting the place in view of COVID-19 scare •Hea
•Meeting chaired by Minister in-charge of Kodagu to decide on whether to allow devotees to witness the divine occurrence as the public was barred from visiting the place in view of COVID-19 scare
•Health Dept to hold a special camp of conducting RT-PCR test on October 13 and 14 if it was made mandatory for visitors to the event
Shankar Bennur
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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.