At the new Zoo Cafe in Guindy Children’s Park ... While Zoo Cafe is near the parking lot, yet another cafe has launched in the heart of the park. A 20-minute walk takes us to Muyal Cafe.

Else, the identification would have been much delayed. The last sighting of a dollarbird in Chennai was in 2016 at Guindy National Park: that is a long period of “estrangement” from the city.