Dhanauri Wetlands
Thasrana Wetlands is located at Greater Noida 45 kilometres from Sec-18,Noida- Uttar Pradesh and 60 km from Delhi And 20 Kilometres Haryana in India. It is a beautiful place which hosts thousands of migratory birds including Saraus Cranes.
List of Birds
- Sarus crane
- Painted Stork
- Pheasant-Tailed Jacana
- Bronze-Winged Jacana
- Baya Weaver
- Green Bee Eater
- Marsh Harrier
- Ashy Prinia
- Grey heron
- Purple heron
- Cattle egret
- Large egret
- Little grebe
- Cormorant
- Smaller egret
- Little egret
- Night heron
- Wolly Necked Stork
- White ibis
- Spoonbill
- Greylag goose
- Bar-headed goose
- Lesser whistling teal
Black Bittern Cinnamon Bittern Yellow Bittern Great Bittern Bristled Grassbird Pallid Harrier Bonelli's Eagle Greater Spotted Eagle Indian Spotted Eagle Booted Eagle Peregrine Falcon Common Kestrel Paddyfield Pipit Tawny Pipit Crested Lark Bengal Bushlark Indian Busklark Oriental Skylark Jack snipe Common snipe Northern Lapwing White-tailed Lapwing Common shelduck Ferruginous duck Cotton Pygmy Goose Common Starling Asian pied Starling Bank Myna Common Myna Zitting Cisticola Bristled Grassbird Ashy prinia Plain Prina Graceful Prina
Location
The villages that surround the wetlands, are Dhanauri on the West, Amipur Bangar on the East side, and Thasrana on the East side.
Coordinates: 28°20′20.127″N 77°37′9.873″E / 28.33892417°N 77.61940917°E
External links
- Dhanauri may be listed as wetland to protect sarus
- Bird watchers discover new wetland in Greater Noida