#mumbaimangroves — Public Fediverse posts
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📽️ I - 30 MAR 2023 (14:35 hrs.) near Mulund (East), Mumbai, at Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary.
📸 II - 30 MAR (14:32 hrs.) near Mulund (East), Mumbai, at a mangrove marsh.
📸 III - 📸 9 OCT 2022 (16:21 hrs.) near Powai lake, inside IIT BOMBAY CAMPUS, India, Mumbai.
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Fun fact - the nests, which are constructed from chewed up bark, and leaves, mixed with mud, are waterproof.
That's right. Bugs invented paper, cardboard and waterproofing way before us.
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Found in forests, woodland, and scrub jungles, but also in the parks and gardens of urban Mumbai, their large pagoda style nests are not only hard to miss, but also earn them the 'pagoda' moniker.
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