Bhubaneswar: Nine near-threatened bird species were sighted this winter at Chilika Lake, Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon, in Odisha, an official said Monday.
“During the annual bird census that ended Sunday, a total 7,19,262 birds were sighted by enumerators in the Lake, against last year’s 8,77,322.
“One of the important highlights of the census was that we sighted nine near-threatened bird species,” Divisional Forest Officer (wildlife) B.P Acharya told IANS.
“They are river tern, Asian dowitcher, spot-billed pelican, oriental darter, Eurasian curlew, Eurasian spoonbill, Pallas’s fish eagle, painted stork, and black-tailed godwit”, he said.
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