Hi Subhash,

there is no record of the siberian crane any where in south India at any point of time... even the sightings in central India and Kutch were quite some time ago. As you would be knowing Bharatpur is the place where they were regularly seen, but since 2001-02 there have been no sightings any where in India..It seems more or less certain that the lineage of birds which followed the migratory route to India perhaps does not exist any more as the global populations of this bird has fallen drastically. Also the countries over which they used to migrate to India have lost huge portions of their wetlands and continue to be politically disturbed. For people like us watching this inimitably graceful bird in the wild will probably remain a dream...

Rgds
Roopak