Kanyakumari Saltpans

Birds of Kanyakumari Saltpans - Kanyakumari saltpans substituting degraded natural mudflats plays an important role in aiding long-distance migratory species and resident birds to feed, roost, and even to breed at the southern tip of Peninsular India. This book is the outcome of more than three decades of research and it contains 107 wetland and wetland dependent species of 22 families recorded only from the saltpans of Kanyakumari. Both global and regional distribution, status, description and population has been described and illustrated through maps and impeccable photographs. Part field guide, part research, part history and altogether fascinating!