page_title: Birding in Chennai
section_title: Potheri Lake
hierarchical_section_title: Birding in Chennai / Potheri Lake
caption_attribution_description: English: Potheri Lake before monsoon
context_page_description: Housing more than 200 resident and wintering bird species, Chennai has long been a haven for bird watchers. It is the one of the few urban areas in India with diverse range of birds including greater flamingo, black baza, osprey, Indian eagle-owl, Coppersmith barbet, Spot billed pelican and pied avocet can be seen. The following are some known birding hotspots in and around Chennai.
context_section_description: Potheri Lake is a rain fed freshwater lake situated near Potheri a small village on the outskirts of Chennai. It is situated right beside the SRMIST. The habitat in this place is a rain fed freshwater lake system, grasslands on the East and Southeast of the lake and scrub forests on the southern end. Till now 147 species have been recorded at this lake.
  The uncommon species recorded at this place include Lesser Whitethroat, Paddyfield warbler, Red-necked Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Montagu's Harrier, Pacific Golden-Plover, Greater Painted-Snipe, Pin-tailed snipe, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Cinnamon Bittern, White-rumped munia, Red Avadavat,  Common woodshrike, Tawny-bellied Babbler, Blyth's Pipit, Richard's Pipit, Eurasian Wigeon, Jungle Bush-Quail, Streaked Weaver, Indian Paradise Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Brown-breasted Flycatcher.
  It is situated near to the GST Road and is also near to the Potheri Halt railway station. The location for it is here.
caption: Potheri lake wetland habitat.
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