Birds at Doloni Beel in western Assam throughout a rely.
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GUWAHATI
A survey carried out in considered one of western Assam’s most essential wetlands has yielded 47 species of waterfowl.
A 40-member crew comprising conservation NGO Aaranyak, college students of Abhayapur College, and native youths carried out the survey in Bongaigaon district’s Doloni Beel on February 21.
“Doloni is one of the most important natural water reservoirs of western Assam with a good bird diversity compared to other wetlands. The wetland also provides livelihoods to the local people,” the NGO’s Bibhab Talukdar stated.
The crew recorded 47 species of wetland birds and 1,847 people in the course of the survey carried out in affiliation with the Botany and Zoology departments of Abhayapuri College and the Aie Valley Forest Division.
Some of the outstanding species recorded have been the red-crested pochard, ferruginous pochard, tufted duck, gadwall, Eurasian wigeon, fulvous whistling teal and the lesser adjutant stork.
“The participants were acquainted with the method of counting birds before they got down to carrying out the survey at different locations in the Doloni Beel in groups of five,” Aaranyak’s senior scientist Udayan (*47*) stated.
An analogous train was carried out by the Guwahati Wildlife Division of the Assam Forest Department at Deepar Beel, Assam’s solely Ramsar web site on the outskirts of Guwahati. Altogether 26,747 birds belonging to 96 species have been recorded throughout that rely.
