Krasanya Gaur

Shivani Krishna, Imroze Khan

Life in the Neighbourhood Lab
3rd February 2023
Spot and Track - Report

We used the Focal observation method to study the water birds present at the Asawarpur

Lake. Following is the data in tabular format.

Basic details of the observation period:

Weather - warm, sunny, clear sky

Climate - Spring
Time: 3:57 PM
Loud and noisy surroundings, very close to human habitat

Bird 1: Purple Swamp Hen

Time Behavior Nature Remarks

sitting on the edge of the lake
and using the beak to comb its
4:53 Preening state feathers
pecking around the ground,
taking short flights from one
4:56 foraging state patch of ground to another
Sitting in the middle of the
ground, causing other birds to
5:07 preening state move away
standing in the middle of the
5:14 resting state ground
due to the loud noise of fire
cracker activity, the bird retreated
5:21 walks into bush to hide point to what was probably its nest
comes back into vision by
walking to the edge of the after firecracker sounds had
5:28 lake again point subsided
 Bird 2: Red Water Lapwing

Time Behavior Nature Remarks

4:04 standing still
4:05 walks to another point
4:09 preening
4:11 looks around
4:12 alarm calls
5:21 flies out of view
at the edge of the water body,
state legs half submerged in water
point long steps, long thin legs
using its beak to comb its
state feathers
point then continues to stand still
point short, sharp calls
due to the loud noise of fire
point cracker activity

Bird 3: Common Moorhen

Time Behavior Nature Remarks

on the edge of the ground near
4:27 standing still state the lake
4:29 flying and hopping point goes into the lake
4:30 swimming state slowly, near the ground area
sitting near the middle of the
4:37 comes back onto land point ground
hops to another part of moving away from the purple
4:40 the land point swamphen
using its beak to prune its
4:51 preening state feathers
5:02 flies out of view state does not fly high