Chilikalake set to welcome winged guests

The Times of India , Thursday, September 29, 2016
Correspondent : HrusikeshMohanty
Berhampur: The winter is coming and the winged guests are yet arrive on the swamps of Chilkalake. But it is show time for the wildlife wing of India's biggest brackish lake as they prepare to provide protection to the migratory birds when they start to flock in the blue lagoon.

"We will set up 18 temporary camps in the lake from the first week of October and intensify patrolling around the lake to prevent poaching of migratory birds," said divisional forest officer, Chilka, BikashRanjan Das.

Das said the wildlife department will engage 60 people for next six months and hire at least 10 boats to be used for patrolling on the lake apart from the existing eight boats already in operation. The camps will be run till March when the migratory birds set off homeward. He added that the arrival of migratory birds is likely to be delayed as compare to the previous year due to continuous rain for last few days.

"We have spotted very few migratory birds at Nalabana (the bird sanctuary in the lake)," he said.

Last winter around 8.86 lakh birds of 161 different species had visited the lagoon. The lake attracts winged guests from far off Caspian Sea, Lake Baikal, remote parts of Russia, central and South East Asia, Ladakh and Himalayas every winter.

 
SOURCE : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Chilika-lake-set-to-welcome-winged-guests/articleshow/54576667.cms
 


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