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| Greater Flamingos © Min An / Pexels |
Like other native organisms, birds are important members of ecosystems that matter to the planet and to as well as of us. India is a hospitable hub for migratory birds, where every year different species of migratory birds migrate here by covering thousands of kilometres from other regions of the world to find the habitats for feeding, breeding and raise them. India has always supported biodiversity. A Khichan village in Rajasthan, where a Chugga house has been built by locals here to protect of migrating demoiselle cranes (a species of birds). Around the world, many birds are helpful in breeding seed dispersal of pollinators or plants.
Here is a list of the most beautiful migratory birds that visit India every year. However, This list is definitely not an exhaustive, Scroll through for migratory birds.
Amur Falcon
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| Amul Falcon in South Africa © Frans Van Heerden / Pexels |
The Amur Falcon is a small Raptor that belongs to the Falcon family. It breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China and migrates to southern Africa, the Arabian Sea and extensively north east India. During the winter season, it's feeding and breeding around the Doyang Lake in Nagaland, India. The Amur Falcon species was previously unprotected, these migratory birds were massacred in Nagaland during their migration, but India launched a successful campaign to conserve them, which is now a protected species.
Bar-Headed Goose
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| Bar-Headed Goose near Lakes © PollyDot / Pixabay |
Bar-headed goose is a goose, it is one of the highest flying birds in the world. The bar-headed goose flies extreme heights of the Himalayan Mountains when it migrates across the Himalayas. It breeds in thousands of colonies in Central Asia, near the mountain lakes and in South Asia from Assam to Tamil Nadu, the southern regions of India. Migrates to India during the winter season, they spend time in the southern region. Keoladeo National Park or Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is the most famous sanctuary in India for seeing bar-headed goose. It lays three to eight eggs at a time in nests built on the ground.
Black-winged Stilt
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The black-winged stilt is a long-legged wader who is widely a member of the stilt family. Black-winged stilts are large black and white. Both sexes are similar, but the males often have a black back with a greenish glow, while the female's back has a brownish hue with a black residue. And plumage does not change during the year. Black-winged Stilts repeatedly give high high-pitched barking calls. It is a regular migratory bird in India, and commonly found around the wetland.
Blue-tailed bee-eater
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| Blue-tailed bee-eater sitting on Sprig © Vicki Hamilton / Pixabay |
The blue-tailed bee-eater is a small-sized bird, a nearby passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. This species is most often seen near large waterbodies with richly coloured in farmland. And the population is strongly migratory, as well as widely distributed in Southeast Asia, and seasonally viewed in peninsular India. In small areas colonially travel to land for breeding purposes, building nests by tunneling under the ground near the waterbody or in loamy sand banks. However, these are often seen more in open areas near the water. Their favourite food is Indian dragonfly, Indian bees and honey bees.
Bluethroat
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The Bluethroat is a brightly coloured small passerine bird resembling a sparrow, which is now considered to be a member of an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae family. This species breeding in wet birch wood in Europe and the very cold climate of Alaska. But during winters, it migrates to the Indian subcontinent and North Africa. The blue feathers under their throats are shiny, which glows. An interesting fact: the more Pretty this bird looks, its also more shy one. These migratory birds can be seen at the Keoladeo National Park of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, India.
Demoiselle Crane
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| Demoiselle crane near tree © Baumert / Pixabay |
Demoiselle Crane, also known as Koonj in India. It is the smallest species found in the central Eurosiberia crane family, its breed ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and north-east China. Birds from Mongolia and China migrate to the Indian subcontinent during the harsh winter season. These migratory birds feeding, breeding and inhabit the desert areas of Rajasthan and in various environmental conditions.
Great White Pelican
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| Great white pelican on the mound of the river © Andrei Prodan / Pixabay |
The Great White Pelican is a bird with a long beak and a large neck bag, also known as the Eastern White Pelicans, and the White Pelican is a member of the Pelican family. It breeds in shallow lakes and lagoons in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. The white pelicans migrate to India during the winter in large numbers, and habitat mainly in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Assam of India, including the north-west.
Greater Flamingo
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| Greater flamingo in the green field © Jean van der Meulen / Pixabay |
The Greater Flamingo, one of the most widespread and largest species in the flamingo family, is found in the Indian subcontinent. The Greater Flamingo is the state bird found in Gujarat in India, while the most beautiful migratory bird, the Lesser Flamingo, can be seen in Bombay and migrate within the country. This migratory bird is found in the winter season in Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary, Flamingo Cit, Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary and Thol Bird Sanctuary of Gujarat. Their average height is 110 -150 cm (5 ft) and the largest male flamingos has recorded a height of 187 cm (6 ft). Most of them are pinkish-white, but their coverts are red.
Rosy Starling
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| Bishnu Sarangi on the Sprig © Jean van der Meulen / Pixabay |
Rosie Starling is a medium-sized passerine bird, which is in the in the starling family. Sturnidae, also known as a vision in pastor of black and light rose-coloured. Rosie starling has a blackhead and tail, and showcase a pink beak and legs during their breeding time. It migrates to India during the winter season and helpful in eliminating the locusts that are panic in the fields.
Siberian Cranes
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| Siberian Cranes at Keoladeo Ghana Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India © Bernard Dupont / Flickr |
The Siberian crane, also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is an endangered bird of the crane family. Snow cranes are snowy white, except black feathers and beak orange. Cranes are omnivorous and two breeding populations in the Arctic tundra of Siberia and western and eastern Russia. They nests western Siberia throughout the year, but migrate thousands of km every winter in India to protect themselves from cold and lack of food in areas of Siberia. And Russia's eastern population migrates to China in the cold, while the Western population in Bharatpur (Bharatpur National Park), India.
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