ORIENTAL PRATINCOLES AT KORATTUR LAKE

On 13th October 2019 myself, Swarna and Subramaniam made the observation of about more than 300 Oriental Pratincoles (Glareola maldivarum) on the Korattur Lake's western edge; earlier on the 7th of October 2019, I had seen them when I did the bird count with SRM School Nature Club members, Hemanth and Nowfal. Before these, I have not seen these birds in our locality.

There is an on-going research about OPs with satellite tagging them; one of the sat tagged bird Leg Flag SEP (PTT 83593) , which was seen breeding near Bengaluru at a place called Almatti Dam backwaters in Bagalkot district (ebird obs by Subbu Subramanya -- https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S56341712), was last updated in September 2019 to be located near Chennai (https://wingthreads.com/oriental-pratincole-update-17/); the research update site tells that the current location of the birds is not known. I hope that the birds that have visited our Korattur Lake are the ones that migrated alongwith the sat tagged SEP
ebird checklist for 13/10/19 observation: <https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60581069>