The sight of this CWC in the reel held gently by Udaykumar, with bare hands and with gloved hands could not but put this writer in mind of an observation ornithologist V. Santharam had made in the context of a discussion about the CWC five years ago. He had made the observation in an article in The Hindu titled, “How much of a passage migrant is the Chestnut winged cuckoo?” (dated November 22, 2020).. He recalled two instances of rescuing a Crested winged cuckoo in the Santhome of the 1980s when he was a resident of the neighbourhood. On both occasions, the CWC had flown into a house, and crows had launched into it. In one of those two instances, it had “crash-landed” next door in Santharam’s neighbour’s house. ...
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Namachivayam has drawn up a rough map, a pen sketch, with the trees located on it and named. The park is circular; it “hangs out” with two streets — Indira Nagar Fourth Cross Street and Indira Nagar Sixth Lane — which curve sufficiently to give the park its rotund shape. From the rough, partial drawing of the park with a listing of the trees by their names, one can see that if this tree list was run through the Simpson Reciprocal Index, it would return a high value, indicating a diversity of tree species. These residents want to have a nameboard (tied not nailed) around each tree, indicating its species. A QR code in a boxy space on the nameboard will provide in-depth details about the tree, when scanned. Just one nameboard sans the QR code (for a Mahilam tree) has been created on a trail basis, says Namachivayam. Hands have gone up to take up various aspects of the nameboard-assigning and tree-map work....
