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Several families, particularly those travelling with school-going children, reached Sullurpeta municipality to instrumentality portion successful the ongoing Flamingo Festival 2026 and drawback a glimpse of migratory birds. The birds get astatine this breeding crushed successful November to laic eggs and statesman their instrumentality travel by the extremity of winter. The Nelapattu vertebrate sanctuary, location to migratory taxon specified arsenic spot-billed pelicans, emerged arsenic the main attraction for visitors.
Migratory birds perched atop shrubs astatine the Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary connected Sunday. | Photo Credit: ARRANGEMENT
While the authorities schoolhouse crushed successful Sullurpeta served arsenic the nervus centre by hosting the inaugural league and taste programmes, different venues including the Environmental Education Centre astatine Atakanithippa, the Nelapattu vertebrate sanctuary and the Bheemunivaripalem boating installation successful the backwaters besides witnessed dense footfall. Visitors from Tirupati, Nellore, Annamayya, Kadapa and Chittoor districts arrived successful ample numbers, with immoderate families travelling from arsenic acold arsenic Hyderabad and Bengaluru.
Hema Sri, a pupil of Zilla Parishad High School astatine Urandur successful Srikalahasti constituency, said she was thrilled to spot thousands of birds perched connected shrubs successful the swamp forest. She besides expressed alleviation implicit the availability of makeshift toilets astatine each venues.
The territory medication arranged escaped buses to ferry visitors betwixt venues. However, tourists recovered it challenging arsenic the locations were wide scattered, peculiarly the Bheemunivaripalem boating point, which lies adjacent to the Tamil Nadu border.
