Goa has an active bird/birding network online which can be joined via this WhatsApp link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/K52YaCnmSkFAZovIdQ1wkv
See this video on a related topic too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT4RIBlW_zw Rgds, FN On Wednesday 31 July 2024 at 22:19:20 UTC+5:30 albert.ro wrote: > > > Once upon a time, the vulture was an abundant and ubiquitous bird in India. > > The scavenging birds hovered over sprawling landfills, looking for cattle > carcasses. Sometimes they would alarm pilots by getting sucked into jet > engines during airport take-offs. > > But more than two decades ago, India’s vultures began dying because of a > drug used to treat sick cows. > > Goa, India’s smallest state, sandwiched between the Arabian Sea in the > west and the Western Ghats in the east, is home to about 35% of India’s > avifauna. This diversity is appreciably high considering that Goa has just > three major landscapes and an area of only 3,702 sq. km. The three > landscapes of the state can be classified as coastal plain (coast), mid > highlands (Malabar plains), and the Western Ghats (Baidya and Bhagat 2018). > > > Goa has 473 species of birds of which 11 are endemic to the Western Ghats, > 19 fall under various categories of the IUCN Red List of Threatened > Species,and 48 are listed in Schedule I Part(III)of The Indian WildLife > (Protection) Act,1972. > > > https://zenodo.org/records/11124590/preview/00_SoIB%202023.pdf > > Alberto. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/cf1abee0-fb73-484e-8df4-909fdbf46ef8n%40googlegroups.com.
