{"id":32541,"date":"2018-10-29T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32541"},"modified":"2018-11-17T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T08:32:15","slug":"migratory-birds-start-arriving-at-chilika-numbers-are-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/migratory-birds-start-arriving-at-chilika-numbers-are-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Migratory birds start arriving at Chilika, numbers are down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/migratory-birds-start-arriving-at-chilika-numbers-are-down\/article25339146.ece\"><strong>Migratory birds start arriving at Chilika, numbers are down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Migratory birds arriving in Chilika lake this year winters have declined than their usual numbers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. About Chilika lake:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chilika Lake, Odisha is one of the largest wintering grounds in Asia, where close to one million birds congregate on the mudflats of the lake during winter.<\/li>\n<li>The Asia\u2019s largest brackish water lagoon, spread over 1,000 sq km, is home to 230 bird species, out of which 97 are intercontinental migrants from the Arctic and Eurasian regions.<\/li>\n<li>The lake has been a designated Ramsar site (a wetland of international importance) since 1981.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. The arrival of migratory birds is awaited with the onset of winter every year on Chilika lake. This year, however, fewer winged visitors have descended in the lake.<\/p>\n<p>4. One of the reasons behind the low turnout is the flooding after incessant rain triggered by <strong>cyclone Titli<\/strong> that hit the Odisha coast in the second week of October.<\/p>\n<p>5. The Winged visitors on Chilika lake are<strong> likely to increase <\/strong>once the mudflats below the lake are exposed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Migratory birds on Chilika lake:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Migratory birds fly thousands of miles across continents, from snow-covered Siberia, Caspian Sea, Baikal Lake to remote parts of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Ladakh, US and Canada, to the marshy lands of Nalabana inside Chilika.<\/li>\n<li>The major species that can be witnessed are White bellied sea eagles, Graylag geese, purple moorhen, flamingo jacana and herons.<\/li>\n<li>Chilka Lake Bird Sanctuary is also one of biggest breeding places of flamingos in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6. Steps to ensure birds safety:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The forest officials have taken several steps to ensure the security of birds.<\/li>\n<li>They have set up 19 camps and formed a mobile squad to oversee the security of birds.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>mobile squad<\/strong> will keep a tab on poaching and serving of bird meat in various dhabas and hotels.<\/li>\n<li>Every <strong>camp <\/strong>will be equipped with a motorised boat and will be manned by a forester or forest guard and three members of the <strong>bird protection committee<\/strong> comprising villagers adjoining the Chilika lake.<\/li>\n<li>That apart various <strong>awareness programmes<\/strong> to sensitize villagers against bird poaching are being conducted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migratory birds start arriving at Chilika, numbers are down News: Migratory birds arriving in Chilika lake this year winters have declined than their usual numbers. Important Facts: 2. About Chilika lake: Chilika Lake, Odisha is one of the largest wintering grounds in Asia, where close to one million birds congregate on the mudflats of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/migratory-birds-start-arriving-at-chilika-numbers-are-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Migratory birds start arriving at Chilika, numbers are down<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[813,292,576,217,812,814],"class_list":["post-32541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","tag-cyclone-titli","tag-ecology","tag-ecology-and-environment","tag-gs-3","tag-migratory-birds","tag-ramsar-site","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704866906},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}