KADALUNDI- VALLIKKUNNU COMMUNITY RESERVES
Area = 1.5sq.km
Year of formation = 2007
Districts = Kozhikode , Malappuram
The Kadalundi estuary is located at the mouth of the river Kadalundi that drains into the Arabian sea on the west coast of Kerala. Apart from scattered patches of mangroves, the estuary is bordered by human habitation and coconut groves. Around 8 ha of mudflats, exposed during low tides, offers potential foraging ground for several hundreds of wintering and resident water birds , particularly waders . It also provides significant socio-economic and livelihood services for the people around (fishing , oyster farming and sand mining) . A total of 110 species of water birds including 53 migrants have been recorded . The estuary is one of the few habitat on the west coast where a small population of Lesser Sand plover ( Charadrius mongolus ) , Whimbrel ( Numenius phaeopus ) and Common Redshank ( Tringa tetanus) are observed to over - winter . A good regional population of Brown - headed gulls ( Larus brunnicephalus ) ,Black headed gulls ( Larus ridibundus ) and the critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmacus) . Considering its importance in terms of diversity of wetland birds and heavy anthropogenic pressures , the estuary has been officially declared as the Kadalundi -Vallikkunnu Community reserve...
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