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FEATHERED FRIENDS ON HOMEWARD RUSH
IANS
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Monday, April 15, 2013
Shimla - They still take the traditional Silk Route.
Only, unlike ancient traders and travellers, they take
wings. The feathered guests that descend on various water
bodies across India with the onset of winter, after
crossing national and international boundaries to avoid
the extreme chills of their native habitats in Tibet,
Central Asia, Russia and Siberia, are now set to make
their annual return journey.
A migratory bird in the Kangra Valley�s Pong wetlands in
Himachal Pradesh, which was tagged with a global
positioning system (GPS) transmitter last winter, has
returned to its native China.
A few other bird species are currently in lakes in
Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan, after their winter sojourn in
Pong�s man-made wetlands, in the Himalayan foothills,
about 250 km from State capital Shimla.
A few �holidaying� birds remain though, in Pong. �A
pintail that was tagged with a satellite transmitter in
Pong was recorded last week in China. Another bird of the
same species has reached Kyrgyzstan,� Chief Wildlife
Warden AK Gulati told IANS.
He said that migratory routes of the birds stretched from
India to China, with brief stopovers at key wetlands in
the Himalayas and the trans-Himalayas. The State wildlife
department, in association with the Mumbai-based Bombay
Natural History Society (BNHS), under a central
government-aided project to track their migratory routes
through satellite, tagged 14 migratory birds of different
species for the third consecutive year in Pong.
BNHS assistant director S Balachandran, who installed the
GPS chips on the birds and monitored their movements,
said a common teal, tagged in Pong, was recently recorded
in Pakistan. Two birds � a greylag goose and a shoveller
� were recorded in Srinagar and Harike in Punjab,
respectively, this month.
�They might be on their return journey from Pong to their
native habitats,� he said. Balachandran said that a
tagged common teal and a shoveller are still roosting in
Pong. �
More at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/feathered-friends-on-homeward-rush.html
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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IANS
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Monday, April 15, 2013
Shimla - They still take the traditional Silk Route.
Only, unlike ancient traders and travellers, they take
wings. The feathered guests that descend on various water
bodies across India with the onset of winter, after
crossing national and international boundaries to avoid
the extreme chills of their native habitats in Tibet,
Central Asia, Russia and Siberia, are now set to make
their annual return journey.
A migratory bird in the Kangra Valley�s Pong wetlands in
Himachal Pradesh, which was tagged with a global
positioning system (GPS) transmitter last winter, has
returned to its native China.
A few other bird species are currently in lakes in
Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan, after their winter sojourn in
Pong�s man-made wetlands, in the Himalayan foothills,
about 250 km from State capital Shimla.
A few �holidaying� birds remain though, in Pong. �A
pintail that was tagged with a satellite transmitter in
Pong was recorded last week in China. Another bird of the
same species has reached Kyrgyzstan,� Chief Wildlife
Warden AK Gulati told IANS.
He said that migratory routes of the birds stretched from
India to China, with brief stopovers at key wetlands in
the Himalayas and the trans-Himalayas. The State wildlife
department, in association with the Mumbai-based Bombay
Natural History Society (BNHS), under a central
government-aided project to track their migratory routes
through satellite, tagged 14 migratory birds of different
species for the third consecutive year in Pong.
BNHS assistant director S Balachandran, who installed the
GPS chips on the birds and monitored their movements,
said a common teal, tagged in Pong, was recently recorded
in Pakistan. Two birds � a greylag goose and a shoveller
� were recorded in Srinagar and Harike in Punjab,
respectively, this month.
�They might be on their return journey from Pong to their
native habitats,� he said. Balachandran said that a
tagged common teal and a shoveller are still roosting in
Pong. �
More at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/feathered-friends-on-homeward-rush.html
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj
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o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used
for the educational purposes of research and open
discussion. The contents of this post may not have been
authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion
of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright
law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely
not be read, considered or answered if it does not
contain your full legal name, current e-mail and postal
addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views
expressed by others are not necessarily those of the
poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted
material the use of which may or may not have been
specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This
material is being made available in efforts to advance
the understanding of environmental, political, human
rights, economic, democratic, scientific, social, and
cultural, etc., issues. It is believed that this
constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material
as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the
material on this site is distributed without profit to
those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving
the included information for research, comment,
discussion and educational purposes by subscribing to
USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more
information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
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for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you
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