Lambasingi

Lambasingi
Lambasingi
Village
	Valley near Lambasinghi
	Nickname: Kashmir of Andhra Pradesh
	Lambasingi Andhra Pradesh
	Coordinates: 17°49′08″N 82°29′35″E
Country	India
State	Andhra Pradesh
District	Alluri Sitharama Raju
Mandal	Chintapalli
Elevation	1,000 m (3,000 ft)
Languages
• Official	Telugu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	531116
Website	http://lambasingi.org.in/

Lambasingi (or Lammasingi) is a small village in the Eastern Ghats of Chintapalli Mandal of Alluri Sitharama Raju district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With an altitude that of 1000 m (3280 ft) above sea level, the area is cooler than the surrounding plains and is covered in moist deciduous forest cover. There are several coffee, pine, and eucalyptus plantations around the area and some small attempts to grow apple and strawberry.

The region was formerly densely covered in forests and known in the past to have supported tigers.[1] The large wildlife in the region includes gaur.[2] The region is known for its diversity of bird life which were studied by numerous ornithologists including Trevor Price, Dillon Ripley, Bruce Beehler and K. S. R. Krishna Raju.[3][4][5][6][7]

References

Horne, W.O. (1928). Work and Sport in the Old I.C.S. William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. pp. 191-192.
Raju, KSR Krishna; Krishnamurthy, AVRG; Reddi, C Subba; Reddy, NAV Prasad; Lokaranjan, R; Shankar, KJNG (1987). "Status of wildlife and habitat conservation in Andhra Pradesh". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 84 (3): 605–619.
Beehler, Bruce M. (2008). Lost Worlds. Yale University Press. pp. 69-75.
Beehler, Bruce; Raju, KSRK; Ali, Shahid (1987). "Avian use of man-disturbed forest in the Eastern Ghats, India". Ibis. 129: 197–211.
Price, Trevor (1977). "October at Lammasinghi". Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 17 (4): 7-8.
Ripley, S Dillon; Beehler, Bruce M; Raju, KSR Krishna (1988). "Birds of the Visakhapatnam Ghats, Andhra Pradesh". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 85 (1): 90–107.
Ripley, S Dillon; Beehler, Bruce M; Raju, KSR Krishna (1987). "Birds of the Visakhapatnam Ghats, Andhra Pradesh". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 84 (3): 540–559.

External links

http://lambasingi.org/

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[1] Horne, W.O. (1928). Work and Sport in the Old I.C.S. William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. pp. 191-192.

[2] Raju, KSR Krishna; Krishnamurthy, AVRG; Reddi, C Subba; Reddy, NAV Prasad; Lokaranjan, R; Shankar, KJNG (1987). "Status of wildlife and habitat conservation in Andhra Pradesh". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 84 (3): 605–619.

[3] Beehler, Bruce M. (2008). Lost Worlds. Yale University Press. pp. 69-75.

[4] Beehler, Bruce; Raju, KSRK; Ali, Shahid (1987). "Avian use of man-disturbed forest in the Eastern Ghats, India". Ibis. 129: 197–211.

[5] Price, Trevor (1977). "October at Lammasinghi". Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 17 (4): 7-8.

[6] Ripley, S Dillon; Beehler, Bruce M; Raju, KSR Krishna (1988). "Birds of the Visakhapatnam Ghats, Andhra Pradesh". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 85 (1): 90–107.

[7] Ripley, S Dillon; Beehler, Bruce M; Raju, KSR Krishna (1987). "Birds of the Visakhapatnam Ghats, Andhra Pradesh". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 84 (3): 540–559.