Manglajodi: A paradise for bird action by Soumya Ranjan Bhattacharyya (Instagram): I have been going back to Manglajodi wetlands for the past five years during the months of January-February for bird action photography and one thing I can tell you is that the going gets better and better each year. Situated in the northeastern edge of the Chilika lake in a place called Tangi in the Khorda district of Odhisa, India the Manglajodi wetlands is a vast area which gets inundated each year from the Chilika lake during the monsoon. The flooding marshland attracts millions of migratory and local waterbirds and passerines each year including bar tail godwits, water fowls like northern pintail, northern shoveler, ruddy shelduck, gargeny, gadwal, grey lag goose, grebes, grey-headed swamphen, moorhens, water-cock, black headed ibis, herons, egrets and passerines like blue throat etc., several raptors like brahmini kite, marsh harrier, pied harrier and peregrine falcon make it their home. The Manglajodi wetland is home to several species of terns and gulls also. Crakes and rails and all sorts of birds of wetland habitat are present here, which makes it a very important conservation site teeming with biodiversity. Not to mention, the wetland habitat is home to fishing cat, jungle cat, jackal and several other mammals. Being a small fishing village in the fringe of Chilika, poaching of water birds for meat used to be rampant however, this changed in 1997 when Mr. Nanda Kishore Bhujawal, and his NGO team Wild Orissa worked hard in bringing...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Saturday, 13 June, 2020