Andhra Pradesh officials sound alert on bird flu, collect samples from poultry farms

Andhra Pradesh officials sound alert on bird flu, collect samples from poultry farms

Chickens at a poultry farm in Vijayawada on Sunday. There has been a drop in chicken sales due to the bird flu scare in the last two days, according to traders. | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao Officials sounded an alert over the presence of Avian Influenza A(H5N1), also known as bird flu, in Nellore district. … Read more

Water bird count throws up mixed results in Ernakulam

Water bird count throws up mixed results in Ernakulam

The 2024 Asian Waterbird Census has thrown up mixed results in Ernakulam district. Blue-tailed Bee Eater While the number of water bird species spotted during the exercise marginally went up this year, the number of individuals counted plummeted to half, according to the organisers. Black-winged Stilt This year, 115 species and 3,168 individuals were counted. … Read more

Migratory bird arrivals at Punjab’s Harike wetland decline this season, latest census shows

Migratory bird arrivals at Punjab’s Harike wetland decline this season, latest census shows

Punjab’s Harike wetland. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The arrival of migratory birds this year to Harike, northern India’s largest wetland, declined 12% from 2021, according to the latest census of these water birds. The Forest and Wildlife Preservation department census counted 65,624 birds from 85 species at Harike, World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) … Read more

Migratory birds arrive in larger numbers at Mangalajodi in Odisha

Migratory birds arrive in larger numbers at Mangalajodi in Odisha

A flock of godwits in flight in Mangalajodi, northeastern edge of Chilika Lake in Odisha. | Photo Credit: KR Deepak The flutter of a group of northern pintails breaks the misty morning silence at Mangalajodi, the northeastern edge of Chilika Lake, Asia’s biggest brackish water lagoon in Odisha. Slicing through the still waters, a boatman … Read more