The annual two-day synchronized hen census to enumerate land birds started at Level Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary in Nagapattinam Forest Division on Saturday.
Sources within the Forest Division stated that the two-day train started on Saturday wherein the sphere stage personnel, who got particular coaching and had been supplied with binoculars and knowledge sheets, visited varied locations of the sanctuary and within the adjoining villages, together with Kodiyakkarai and Kodiyakkadu. villages of Vedaranyam Forest Division.
The sector employees of the division was accompanied by hen fanatics, volunteers from non-governmental organizations, college students, lecturers and a gaggle of members of the Bombay Pure Historical past Society (BNHS).
B. Ayub Khan, Forest Vary Officer, Vedaranyam Vary, stated that a number of the necessary hen species noticed embrace higher noticed snipe, lesser whitethroat, and jungle prinia. The thick vegetation within the sanctuary and the large-scale presence of fruit tree species present a good atmosphere for land birds.
The division has deliberate to conduct yet another session to enumerate land birds in different areas of the forest divisions on Sunday. In January final week, the division carried out the synchronized census of wetland birds in Nagapattinam forest division. The train was carried out in 18 locations, together with the Wildlife and Chicken Sanctuary of Level Calimere, which is a Ramsar website, and tanks in Thalainayar, Perunthottam, Thirumullaivasal and Vettaikaraniruppu, which falls within the districts of Nagapattinam and Mayiladuthurai.
