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Water level nearing 98 feet at Mettur dam
The Hindu
Discharge from Karnataka dams up
Water level at Stanley Reservoir in Mettur Dam is nearing 98 feet against the full reservoir level of 120 feet on Saturday.
Due to rain in catchment areas and increase in discharge from dams in Karnataka, the inflow started to increase in the past two days.
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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.