KALPETTA,AUGUST 30, 2017 23:30
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UPDATED: AUGUST 30, 2017
23:30 IST
‘Presence of birds show conservation
significance of the Brahmagiri grasslands’
A three-day monsoon bird survey,
organised jointly by the Forest Department, College of Forestry, Thrissur, and
the Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology (HCEWB), in the North Wayanad
Division recently recorded 92 species.
No bird surveys have been
conducted in the forest division in the past eight years. The survey found five
species of bulbuls, seven species of babblers, five species of pigeons, and
three species of raptors. It recorded Bright Headed Cisticola and broad-tailed
grassland birds in the higher grasslands of the Brahmagiri hills. “Presence of
these birds showed higher conservation significance of the Brahmagiri
grasslands,” C.K. Vishnudas and R.L Rathish of the HCEWB, which performed
scientific and technical coordination of the survey, told The Hindu.
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