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Species & Habitats Awareness Programme.
The First Ever Wildlife Video Series In Marathi.
Director / Script - Akshay Mandavkar
Cinematography - Ketan Vaidya
Drone Cinematography - Suraj Bangal
Music Credit - artlist.io/
Executive Producer - Roshni Nadar Malhotra | Rushikesh Chavan | Kiran Shelar
Producer - The Habitats Trust | MAHA MTB
Burnt Island is part of Vengurla Rocks archipelago, a group of islands 11-12 km offshore in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra. It is home to the largest Indian swiftlet colony with over 5,000 birds. Other colonies exist in the southern Western Ghats and Sri Lanka.
Burnt Island is so named as it appears burnt from afar because of its blackish rock surface, sparsely covered with dried grass. When we first saw it, part of the island looked like it was snow-covered. With several species of terns that also visit seasonally to breed, this is designated an Important Bird Area. In 2019, we first visited Burnt Island and entered the sea cave to see the black edible nests built by the Indian swiftlets using their own feathers bound with saliva. Swiftlets are social birds that flock together in pairs in large colonies of thousands. As these monogamous birds (a pair is faithful until something happens to one of them) build a nest each season, the number of breeding birds can be roughly calculated from the number of nests found within the caves.
After hunting small aerial insects from morning to evening, swiftlets return to their roosts on the Burnt and Old Lighthouse Islands at dusk. The twilight sky is full of swiftlets, flocking at the entrance of this huge sea cave on Burnt Island, calling and chasing, and then entering the cave as fast as possible to escape any awaiting predator. The large number of swiftlets entering a cave together makes counting impossible.
Timecode
0:00 - Vengurla Rocks
1:13 - About Vengurla Archipelago
3:47 - Indian Swiftlet
5:51 - Indian Swiftlet Behaviour
6:40 - Importance of sea caves
7:34 - Credit Line
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