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Kokkarebellur Bird Sanctuary, usually shortened by the colloquial usage to Kokrebellur is a village in Maddur taluk of Mandya district of Karnataka, India. The village is named after the painted stork ( Mycteria leucocephala ), which is called "kokkare" in the native Kannada language .
Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary (also known as Pakshi Kashi of Karnataka), [2] is a bird sanctuary in the Mandya District of Karnataka in India. It is the largest bird sanctuary in the state, [ 3 ] 40 acres (16 ha) in area, [ 4 ] and comprises six islets on the banks of the Kaveri river. [ 5 ]
The sanctuary has its origins in thetank of bonal, a water conservation tank built by the 17th century ruler of Shorapur, Pam Naik, later during the British Raj, Meadows Taylor, the British administrator at Shorapur, extended it to 1,600 acres with 12 feet average depth, as he mentions in his autobiography, The Story of My Life.
In fact the word kokkare means stork in the Kannada language. Apart from pelicans and storks, 250 species of birds have been sighted here. [13] [14] Magadi Bird Sanctuary: Magadi Bird Sanctuary created at the Magadi tank, in Magadi village of Shirahatti Taluk, Gadag district. It is one of the biodiversity hotspots in North Karnataka.
The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script. Kannada is attested epigraphically for about one and a half millennia and literary Old Kannada flourished during the 9th-century Rashtrakuta Empire. [13] [14] Kannada has an unbroken literary history of around 1200 years. [15]
Sayings about parrots colour the modern English language. The verb "parrot" in the dictionary means "to repeat by rote". Also clichés such as the British expression "sick as a parrot" are given; although this refers to extreme disappointment rather than illness, it may originate from the disease of psittacosis, which can be passed to humans.
Ferdinand Kittel (1832–1903), Christian missionary and Kannada writer. The nascent beginnings of modern Kannada literature can be traced to the early 19th century under the stewardship of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III, the ruler of the princely state of Mysore, and court poets who attempted to steer away from the ancient champu form of prose and popularize prose renderings of Sanskrit ...
Kākāpō are the heaviest living species of parrot and on average weigh about 400 g (14 oz) more than the largest flying parrot, the hyacinth macaw. [ 28 ] The kākāpō cannot fly, having relatively short wings for its size and lacking the keel on the sternum (breastbone), where the flight muscles of other birds attach. [ 5 ]