{"id":66529,"date":"2024-03-02T11:08:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sindh-records-11-new-bird-species-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T11:08:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:08:39","slug":"sindh-records-11-new-bird-species-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sindh-records-11-new-bird-species-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindh records 11 new bird species | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The water bodies of Sindh\u00a0witness a visible increase in the flocks of migratory birds each year, with the provincial wildlife department recording 11 new species this\u00a0year.<\/p>\n

According to the annual waterfowl census of 2023-2024, a total of 639,122 birds have been recorded at almost 30 spots, including Keenjhar Lake, Manchhar Lake, Hamal Lake, Haleji Lake, Rann of Kutch, Langh Lake and Nariri Lagoon.<\/p>\n

The survey team of the Sindh Wildlife Department (SWD) conducted the annual census over a two-month period from\u00a0January to February.<\/p>\n

The survey revealed 11 new species which were recorded in the province for the first time, including the Bar-headed Goose, Indian Spot-Billed Duck, Lesser Flamingo, Cotton Pygmy Goose, Oriental Darter, Asian Woolly Necked Stork, Red-naped Ibis, Black-headed Ibis, Black-necked Grebe, Indian Cormorant and Jack Snipe.<\/p>\n

Read<\/strong>: Wildlife dept team roughed up at bird bazaar<\/a><\/p>\n

The \u2018World Wildlife Day\u2019 is being celebrated on March 3 (Sunday) with the theme of \u2018Connecting people and planet’, and ‘Exploring digital innovation in wildlife conservation\u2019.<\/p>\n

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According to the survey, the 70 species spotted include, Bar headed goose, Indian spot bill duck, Lesser Whistling duck, Northern Pintail, Ferruginous duck, Common Pochard, Eurasian Wigeon, Gadwall, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Common teal, Northern Shoveler, Gargany, Marbled Duck, Common shel duck, Cotton Pygmy Goose, Oriental Darter, White strok, Black strok, Asian woolly necked strok, Red Naped Ibis, Black Headed ibis, Common crane, Eurasian Spoonbill, Dalmatian Pelican, Great White Pelican, Lesser flamingo, Great flamingo, Pied avocet, Common red shank, Common greenshank, Bar tailed godwit, Eurasian curlew, Eurasian whimbrel, Black tailed godwit, Baillon’s crake, Little crake, Little grebe, Black necked grebe, Great crested grebe, Common Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Little ringed plover, Little stint, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, Sanderling, Black bellied tern, Gull billed tern, Whiskered tern, Lesser Crested tern, Jack snip, Pintail snipe, Indian Cormorant, Great Cormorant, Glossy Ibis, Eurasian Coot, Small pratincole, Collared Pratincole, Oriental pratincole, Great egret, Grey plover and Pacific Golden Plover have been recorded in the annual survey.<\/p>\n

As per the data, the coastal belt\u2019s Badin district proved to be a better region for the birds as 168,964 birds were recorded at Nariri Lagoon and 117,790 birds were seen in the\u00a0Rann of Kutch area.<\/p>\n

SWD\u2019s provincial head Javed Ahmed Mahar said that new species confirm conservation efforts by the department, making the environment peaceful and ideal for the birds. \u201cThis survey reveals new species and we are happy that each year we witness more birds coming to Sindh,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He also said that the department was celebrating the \u2018World Wildlife Day\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are already working on the theme,\u201d he said, quoting examples of using digital platforms for better conservation of wildlife. \u201cWe use digital platforms to keep the people updated and create awareness about the wildlife and its importance,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KARACHI: The water bodies of Sindh\u00a0witness a visible increase in the flocks of migratory birds each year, with the provincial wildlife department recording 11 new species this\u00a0year. According to the annual waterfowl census of 2023-2024, a total of 639,122 birds have been recorded at almost 30 spots, including Keenjhar Lake, Manchhar Lake, Hamal Lake, Haleji […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/birds1709373095-0\/birds1709373095-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}