Datiware
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Datiware is a village in the state of Maharashtra (Palghar taluk, Thane district) in India on the northern bank of Datiware creek at the mouth of the river Vaitarna. This area is especially famous for being its birds and is a popular destination for birdwatchers in winter.
The area has a variety of habitats including rural agricultural fields, estuary and sea-shore.
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[edit] Birdlife
The following is a list of birds recorded.[1] About 150 or more species may be seen during winter. [2]
- Barn Swallow
- Black-bellied Finchlark
- Black-Bellied Plover
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black drongo
- Blyth's Pipit
- Brahminy Myna
- Brown Headed Gull
- Caspian Terns
- Common Babbler
- Common House Crow
- Common House Swift
- Common Myna
- Common Redshank
- Common Sandpiper
- Cormorant, Gray Heron
- Crow Pheasant
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Golden Plover
- Great Egret
- Greater Flamingos
- Greater Sandplover
- Green sandpiper
- Greenshank
- Gull-Billed Tern
- Herring Gull (Yellow Footed)?
- Hoopoe
- Indian Roller
- Indian Skimmer
- Indian Skylark
- Kestrel
- Lesser Sandplover
- Lesser White Throat
- Little Egret
- Little Stint
- Little Tern
- Magpie Robin
- Marsh Harrier
- Osprey
- Oystercatcher
- Palm Swift
- Pied Crested Cuckoo
- Pond Heron
- Red-breasted Flycatcher
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Red Wattled Lapwing
- Reed warbler
- Rock Pigeon
- Rose-Ringed Parakeet
- Rufous-backed Shrike
- Short-toed Lark
- Small Green Bee-eater
- Spoonbill
- Spotted Dove
- Spotted Munia
- Spotted Redshank
- Stonechat
- Tailor Bird
- Temmnick's Stint
- Terek Sandpiper
- Turnstone
[edit] Places to visit
- A Small Lotus Pond - 1 km before Datiware village. Birds to see: Various water birds, Pigeons, Doves, Flycatchers.
- Backyards in Village - Bird to see: Asian Paradise Flycatcher, Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers.
- Road towards Sea from Village - Birds to see: Grey Partidge, Larks, Pipits, Babblers, Koels, Drongos, Shrikes, Indian Rollers.
- Sea Shore - Bird to see: Oystercatchers, Stints, Curlews, Plovers, Sandpipers, Godwits, Shanks, Gulls, Terns.
[edit] Location
Datiware is 100kms from Dahisar Checkpost. On the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, take a left turn at Varai Phata (45kms from Dahisar). From Varai phata reach Saphale station. Take a right turn from Saphale station and follow the sign boards to Datiware.
It can also be reached by sea from Arnala village where a small launch may be available to reach Datiware.
By rail one has to travel to Saphale station on the Western railway line. From here you can get state transport buses or private vehicles to datiware
[edit] Fish and fishery
The area also has numerous mudskippers and other species of fish. They are locally called nivthi and the species found here is Boleophthalmus dussumieri.
Kolim fishery[3] is a seasonal type of fishing followed in the coastal villages of thane district. Women and children use simple nets in the near shore areas to catch a tiny mysid shrimp, Mesopodosis orientalis, which is a rather uncommom crustacean. The kolim season in datiware is from March to May.
[edit] Cited references
[edit] Other references
- Kharbhari, J.P., 1982. Marine Fisheries Information Services India.. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute: 18-23.
- Talwar, P.K. and A.G. Jhingran, 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volume 2.. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
- Women first: Report of women in fisheries programme of the ICFS in india. Volume I. 1997 (Dossier - Women in Fisheries, Series no. 2)[2]
[edit] External links
- Fishbase - Golbal information system for fishes
- Kolim fishery of Maharashtra - a Women's fishery (pg.17)
- Regular fishery of Mysids, Mesopodosis orientalis in mumbai waters ( Pg.15)
- Location map of Datiware
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