Every year, the Wildlife Department of Punjab conducts a waterbirds census exercise in six major wetlands which include Nangal Wildlife Sanctuary, Ropar Conservation Reserve, Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, Kanjli Wetland, Keshopur-Miani Community Reserve and Ranjit Sagar Conservation Reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the census could not be done this year on account of dense fog conditions. Instead, a <\/span>\u201cSpecies Richness\u201d Survey <\/b>was conducted by the Department of Forests and Wildlife Preservation with support from the WWF-India.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> Every winter, the birds make their way to India through the<\/span> Central Asian Flyway, <\/b><\/a>which covers a large continental area of Europe\u2013Asia between the Arctic and the Indian Oceans.<\/span><\/p>\n 91 species of waterbirds <\/b>were recorded from the six protected wetlands.<\/span><\/p>\n The waterbird count was highest in the Harike Wildlife Sanctuary <\/b>followed by the Keshopur\u2013Miani Community Reserve, Ropar Conservation Reserve and Nangal Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/span><\/p>\n Wetlands like <\/span>Keshopur\u2013Miani and Shallpattan are the only wetlands in Punjab to host the migratory population<\/b> of common crane and the resident population of the Sarus crane.<\/span><\/p>\n The Ropar and Nangal wetlands host the three migratory water species <\/b>of the family Podicipedidae i.e., black-necked Grebe, Horned Grebe and Greater Crested Grebe along with the resident Little Grebe.<\/span><\/p>\n Eurasian Coot was one of the most common water birds <\/b>spotted in almost all protected wetlands of Punjab during the survey.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>Migratory waterbirds: Encouraging trend of species diversity recorded<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in The Hindu <\/b>on 11th Mar 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Every year, the Wildlife Department of Punjab conducts a waterbirds census exercise in six major wetlands which include Nangal Wildlife Sanctuary, Ropar Conservation Reserve, Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, Kanjli Wetland, Keshopur-Miani Community Reserve and Ranjit Sagar Conservation Reserve. However, the census could not be done this year on account of dense fog… Continue reading \u201cSpecies Richness\u201d Survey: Migratory waterbirds: Encouraging trend of species diversity recorded<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-173900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704866826},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are the key findings from the Species Richness Survey?<\/b><\/h5>\n