ML391876571

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Observation details

Common shelduck visits this ground every year for few days this was the consecutive 5 th year recorded by me.3 individuals sighted last week they came with bramhiny duck and huge flocks of gray leg goose which I was not able to record they moved further down on 27th morning we got some record shots of single individual from quite far range and by 10 am it came so close to a copse where we took hide and observed for almost 25-30 min then we moved away. The behavior was quite interesting I have seen them always with mix flock every time this one was feeding on an open ground and no duck species birds are not there meanwhile 3 indian spot billed ducks are like 100 mtr far.we left the bird and moved away.By evening it was reported that the duck has been hunted down by some prey bird.A single female peregrine falcon is resident here and she is very active during the day time and we have seen a Marsh harrier as well hovering over the same ground no other predator birds was not seen.It was eaten by the neck part only and left the bird there kishan ji one of our senior team member took an eye for almost dawn watching if the bird comes again no one appeared and the next day a stray dog was feeding on the prey the carcass was weighted around 1.5 kg after the neck part has been fed its and immature bird as we can see white spots on the cheek and less coloured neck ring .later the same day single common shelduck visited with some mix flock of ducks .

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