IMPHAL,
Dec 9, 2018
A
critically endangered migratory bird – the yellow-breasted bunting (Emberiza aureola) that feeds on grains –
was sighted for the first time after 92 years in Manipur last month, RK Birjit
Singh, the wildlife warden of Bishnupur district, said.
The same
was reported by Sobhapati Samom in an article in The
Assam Tribune. The bird was last sighted here last in 1926, as per
British ornithologist Stuart Baker’s records. The bird locally known as
Lam-Sendrang (local meaning wild sparrow) was sighted at the proposed area of
Thinungei Bird Sanctuary in Bishnupur district on November 28 last, Singh told
The Assam Tribune.
There
were reports of sighting the species at Thongjaorok river that flows into the
Loktak lake, in the first week of November last year but there was no
photographic record, said Singh, who is also the State coordinator of the
Indian Bird Conservation Network.
The size
of a common sparrow, the yellow-breasted bunting breeds in north-eastern Europe
and across northern Asia. It spends the winter in large flocks in wetlands or
tall grasslands, preferring to roost near streams that irrigate rice-fields
with tall grasses in south-east Asia, India and southern China.
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