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Pallikaranai Marsh - Spot-billed Pelicans

October 27 , 2026 16 hrs 0 min 83 0

Pallikaranai Marsh in Chennai has become a year-round habitat for Spot-billed Pelicans, according to long-term monitoring by the Nature Trust.
The Spot-billed Pelican (Pelecanus philippensis) is classified as Near Threatened (NT) on the IUCN Red List.
In Tamil Nadu, the State of India’s Birds lists the Spot-billed Pelican as a wetland species with a rapidly declining current annual trend.
The Spot-billed Pelican is also called the Grey Pelican and belongs to the family Pelecanidae and order Pelecaniformes.
It mainly inhabits freshwater lakes, reservoirs, rivers, coastal wetlands and estuaries.