AHMEDABAD: Panchi nadiyan pavan ke jhonke, koi sarhad na inhe roke…
These traces from the favorite tune in JP Dutta’s war movie’Border’ ring true to winged creatures.
In instances of Covid-19, whenever there are aviation restrictions to many countries because of Covid-19 pandemic, most birds ringed by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) are flying around nations.
Most recently, a Terek Sandpiper which was ringed at the Gulf of Kutch at February 2017 has been re-sighted in Jandola, Pakistan at May 2021.
Considering that 2017, BNHS has labeled over 700 creatures in Gujarat at a collaborative endeavor with the state forest division.
The tagging plan has been stopped in March 2020 because of this coronavirus however, re-sighting of birds even in the peak of the next wave of the stunt at April and May have bird fans excited.
“An isolated re-sighting doesn’t tell us much since the tags aren’t like radio kayaks that let us monitor the travel of their bird.
However, it’s still exciting as to just how seldom it occurs.
Taken together, re-sightings give significant insights in the political borders which birds can cross, and possible hurdles they confront their long migratory paths,” explained Bivash Panday, manager, BNHS.
As an example, the terrific knot, a beach bird labeled in Kamchatka in Russia was seen on April 7, 2021 in Balachadi close Jamnagar.
Yashodhan Bhatia, an enthusiastic birder by Jamnagar who spotted and recorded the bird at Gujarat, ” said the labeled bird code-named’6 rebounds’ was sighted by him along with some other birdwatchers on October 6, 2019 and again 3 weeks later on January 2020 in Balachadi.
“The terrific knot is usually found in Balachadi and bar-tailed godwits and crab plovers.
The simple fact that they migrate out of Russia, flying 7,700kilometers throughout the continent has been verified with all the’6-Z’ sighting,” said Bhatia.
He stated the bird utilizes the East Asian-Australasian flyway along with the Central Asia flyway.
Other birds labeled by BNHS from India and that have been apprehended in different nations from the present migratory year are a curlew sandpiper (a medium-sized wader bird indigenous to Russia’s Arctic tundra), that has been labeled in Navi Mumbai within a couple of decades back and had been spotted over 4,500kilometers away, at China’s Tianjin country lately.
“The bird was first seen from the Tangu Saltpans on May 7, marking the very first global re-sighting of a bird labeled about the Mumbai coast,” BNHS officials said.
A northern shoveler labeled at Odisha’s Chilika lake at February 2018 had been re-sighted by birders in Uzbekistan in April this year.
In the same way, that a broad-billed sandpiper labeled in Tamil Nadu at October 2019 has been seen at Hong Kong at exactly the identical month.
An identical re-sighting of a Indian skimmer labeled in Chambal, Madhya Pradesh, at June 2019 occurred in Bangladesh that January.
“Gujarat is blessed with all coastal wetlands which draw tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds.
It’s necessary to record such big migratory shorebird populations in the national and international levels.
There are many possible websites that though unprotected qualify as Ramsar sites, dependent on standards of people of those birds.
The bird calling programme from BNHS throughout the nation, will unquestionably help unravel several puzzles of those birds,” Dishant Parashariya, scientist, BNHS.
In May this past year, an Amur falcon, satellite labeled by the Wildlife Institute of India, came at Gir after flying African American lions while crossing Africa.
The country appears to be emerging as a gateway to migratory birds covering the greatest distances.
Amur falcons have been known to have one of the longest migration paths in birdsup to 22,000kilometers.