Maddur

The Village of Storks, off the main highway between Bangalore and Mysore, is one of the few nesting sites in India of the spot-billed pelican. In addition, it is also home to hundreds of painted storks. The place is not a sanctuary; the storks and pelicans live freely in the trees in the middle of village, and are quite used to their human neighbors. Mysore Amateur Naturalists (MAN) have been working with the inhabitants of village to preserve the nesting site of the spotbilled pelicans, which are an endangered species. Pelicans and painted storks visit this place in January and stay until June .