{"id":1781,"date":"2025-02-04T07:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaziranga-national-park.com\/blog\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2025-02-04T07:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:23:19","slug":"migratory-birds-rise-in-kaziranga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaziranga-national-park.com\/blog\/migratory-birds-rise-in-kaziranga\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Wetlands in Kaziranga: A Crucial Stopover for Numerous Migratory Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The findings of the latest waterbird census include that the two interconnected wetlands, Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, notably outnumbered the bird populations of numerous Indian Ramsar sites. The recent migration of an array of avian\/water species has significantly led to exceeding the bird counts to approximately 1,12,000 birds of 124 species, in Kaziranga of Assam.<\/p>\n<p>The recent two-day (January 11th and 12th) of this sixth Kaziranga Waterbird Count exercise was carried out by five observers, four coordinators, 93 enumerators and 62 volunteers, from various institutions, government and non-government organizations, contributing to making it one of the largest Citizen Science Movement in recent times.<\/p>\n<h3>Record of the Migrated Population<\/h3>\n<p><em>The Director of Assam\u2019s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR) Sonali Ghosh said that<\/em><em>, a total of 1,12,062 migratory water and wetland-dependent birds of 124 species have been recorded so far.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Authorities have it that, out of 124 species, 62 were winter migrants, globally threatened and near-threatened species are marked as 7 and 15 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Key sightings of this intriguing migration encapsulates the critically endangered Baer\u2019s Pochard and Pallas\u2019s Fish Eagle. Whereas, Knob-billed Duck, Baer\u2019s Pochard, Falcated Duck, White-tailed Eagle, and Greater white-fronted Goose have been sighted for the very first time.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The survey of the sixth Kaziranga waterbird count exercise concludes that the record has been the highest so far, upon announcing the results on Sunday. 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The recent migration of an array of avian\/water species has significantly led to exceeding the bird counts to approximately 1,12,000 birds of 124 species, in Kaziranga &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaziranga-national-park.com\/blog\/migratory-birds-rise-in-kaziranga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Wetlands in Kaziranga: A Crucial Stopover for Numerous Migratory Birds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Assam\u2019s Kaziranga Tiger Reserve Witnesses Historic Rise in Migratory Birds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kaziranga Tiger Reserve in Assam records its highest migratory bird count, highlighting its rich biodiversity and efforts in bird conservation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaziranga-national-park.com\/blog\/migratory-birds-rise-in-kaziranga\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Assam\u2019s Kaziranga Tiger Reserve Witnesses Historic Rise in Migratory Birds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kaziranga Tiger Reserve in Assam records its highest migratory bird count, highlighting its rich biodiversity and efforts in bird conservation.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.kaziranga-national-park.com\/blog\/migratory-birds-rise-in-kaziranga\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Latest Travel &amp; 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