Nalabana Bird Sanctuary. Rudra. ❤️❤️

Nalabana Bird 

Part of :- GS paper lll - Environment Conservation, Environment Pollution and degradation and Environmental impact assessment.

Recently, a record number of migratory birds have arrived at the Nalabana bird sanctuary in Odisha.

The dismantling of illegal prawn gherries inside the lake is being cited as the main reason behind the avian gathering. Gherries are areas encroached for illegal prawn cultivation inside the wetland area.

Key Points :-

The large Nalabana Island (Forest of Reeds) covering about 16 sq km was declared a bird sanctuary in 1987.

The island disappears during the monsoon due to inundation, only to emerge again post-monsoon.

Migratory birds usually start arriving at Chilika in November as it is a comparatively hospitable alternate habitat compared to the extreme freezing conditions in their natural habitats in Siberia, China, Japan and other countries in the northern hemisphere.

Few important migratory birds seen here are: Bar-headed geese, greater flamingos, herons, black-tailed godwits and rare Great Knot. The Great Knot was seen after five years.

Chilika Lake is Asia's largest and world's second-largest lagoon after the New Caledonian barrier reef in New Caledonia.

It is distributed in far northeast Russia, coastal Australia, southeast Asia, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and eastern Arabian Peninsula.

It is listed as Endangered under the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.