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Water level
The Hindu
Thewaterlevelon Tuesday in Periyar dam stood at 132.70 feet (maximum permissiblelevelis 142 ft) with an inflow of 207 cusecs and a discharge of 600 cusecs. In Vaigai dam, thelevelstood at 69.08 feet (
Thewaterlevelon Tuesday in Periyar dam stood at 132.70 feet (maximum permissiblelevelis 142 ft) with an inflow of 207 cusecs and a discharge of 600 cusecs. In Vaigai dam, thelevelstood at 69.08 feet (71 ft) with an inflow of 317 cusecs and a discharge of 219 cusecs. The combined storage in Periyar credit was 8,515 mcft. There was no rainfall recorded in the region in the 24 hours ending at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
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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.