{"id":81733,"date":"2021-02-10T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=81733"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:49:09","slug":"pong-dam-lake-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pong-dam-lake-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary&#8221;- Migratory water birds arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Over a lakh migratory water birds arrived at the Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh in Winter 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pong Dam Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pong Dam Sanctuary<\/strong> is also known as Pong Dam Reservoir or Pong Dam Lake. It is located in Himachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>The dam was created in 1975 and was declared as a wildlife sanctuary in 1983. The lake was declared as a <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wetlands\/\"><strong>Ramsar Site<\/strong><\/a> in 2002.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>: The sanctuary area is covered with tropical and subtropical forests. It shelters a great number of Indian Wildlife animals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers: <\/strong>The lake is fed by the Beas River. Its numerous perennial tributaries are Gaj, Neogal, Binwa, Uhl, Bangana, and Baner.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna: <\/strong>The sanctuary is a host to around 220 species of birds belonging to 54 families. Migratory birds from all over Hindukush Himalayas and also as far as Siberia come here during winter.\n<ul>\n<li>The flagship species of the lake are Bar Headed Geese. Other species having a high population at the sanctuary include Eurasian Coot, Northern Pintail, Common Teal, Great Cormorant, GreyLag Goose, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Concerns: <\/strong>The total population of birds as well as the number of species counted this year is marginally less as compared to last year, probably due to the impact of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/status-of-avian-influenzaai-in-india\/\">avian influenza<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/over-1-lakh-migratory-water-birds-visited-himachal-pradeshs-pong-dam-lake-sanctuary-this-winter-7180140\/\"><strong>Indian Express<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Over a lakh migratory water birds arrived at the Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh in Winter 2020-21. Pong Dam Wildlife Sanctuary: Pong Dam Sanctuary is also known as Pong Dam Reservoir or Pong Dam Lake. It is located in Himachal Pradesh. The dam was created in 1975 and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pong-dam-lake-wildlife-sanctuary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary&#8221;- Migratory water birds arrived<\/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":[1566,1351,1310,4182,9],"tags":[1317],"class_list":["post-81733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-environment","category-public","tag-env_1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700434772},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81733","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=81733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}