Baraila Bird Sanctuary (Vaishali) and around

On October 26, we started our journey from Patna in early in the morning to visit to Baraila Lake, spread over 2,000 acres of area in the Vaishali district of Bihar. This lake was notified as Bird Sanctuary by the Bihar government in 1997. The lake is flooded with the water (as came to know that lakes recieved one of the best rain during last decades) and covered by water vegetation everywhere. Our primary purpose of visit was to learn about lake and ascertain migration pattern in October, if any. We did not come across any migratory birds rather than few territorial birds such as Pipit, Intermediate Egrets and little cormorant. We are told that migration takes place in this wetland in the mid of November. However, we sighted a pair of Indian roller, consider as auspicious in Mithila, closed to the lake. We also witnessed nesting sites of Egrets near Teghra.

Baraila Wetland 

Indian roller (Coracias benghalensis)

Little cormorant (Microcarbo niger)

Intermediate Egret (Mesophoyx intermedia)

Paddyfield Pipit(Anthus rufulus)