PUBLISHED: 23:40, 27 August
2016 | UPDATED: 23:40, 27 August 2016
A desert bird, ‘Stoliczka’s
Bushchat’ or the ‘Whitebrowed Bushchat,’ has been spotted in the capital. The
bird sighting is the first in Delhi’s ornithological history.
Resembling a sparrow, it is scarce
and locally endemic to Rajasthan, Gujarat and the Sindh province of
Pakistan.
However, the IUCN (International
Union for Conservation of Nature)-listed ‘vulnerable’ species has recently been
seen in the Yamuna Khadar area near Wazirabad Barrage.
Resembling a sparrow, it is
scarce and locally endemic to Rajasthan, Gujarat and the Sindh province of
Pakistan.
An avid birder, KB Singh, says:
“The spotting has given us reasons to conserve the river habitat better and rid
it of pollution.”
Mostly recorded in the ‘Desert
National Park’ and Churu district of Rajasthan, it occurs alone or in pairs,
perching on the tops of exposed bushes and dropping to the ground to
feed.
A summary by ornithologist Asad
R. Rahmani in 1993 listed only 31 known localities in western India.
It inhabits desert plains where
ground-cover is 25-50 per cent according to Birdlife International’s (2000)
‘Threatened Birds of the World.’
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