Birds Wild Wildlife

The birds are a beautiful creature which attracts our mind near homes or near the pasture land. Their sweet chirping, laughing and tweeting make us happy and delightful. The birds – big or small always recreates our mind into a very fascinating way whether they are catching insects or taking food grains from the ground they always impresses us from their acts of moving or flying here and there on the earth. ADVERTISEMENTS: Take the small pretty bird Sparrow (Passer Passer domestics), it has been vanished away from the villages of northern India. Three decades back, every house was full of noise of sparrow songs. The people were happy enough to see the bird chirping here and there in the houses. Sometime they fly into groups to the fields of wheat or paddy, picking up their share of first crop in the agricultural fields and then again flying away to distant villages and then returning back to see their counterparts happy and safe. The domestic birds have suffered the worst in the last three decades because of global warming and pollution. In the last three decades, several birds have been vanished away from the forests, pastures, valleys, wetlands and patch lands (small scattered forest in a rural area). Some bird species here disappeared or have become endangered in the last one century in the Indian Himalayas. Particularly, the Central Himalayas and Shivalik hills, the population of wild birds has disappeared continuously. Changing climate, low rainfall and continuously growing global warming, increasing pollution, receding wetlands, reduction in the area of heathlands and open barren lands have caused the extinction of beautiful birds from the Himalayan States of India. In the desert land of Rajasthan, the desert quail had disappeared in 1889. Since then, no species of this bird has been spotted in Rajasthan and adjoining areas. This was a big loss for the bird lovers and ornithologists all over the world. It was like a world of birds is gone. The naturologists and ornithologists also believe that this bird may still exist in some parts of Rajasthan deserts. Unfortunately, nobody has noticed its presence in the deserts, forests or agriculture lands by now. Some beautiful wildfowls and waterfowls of Gujarat have been disappeared in the last one century. The continuous felling of forests, scratching the grass of barren lands and encroachment of mangroves has made it uneasy for some wild birds to survive in a changed environment or emigrate to somewhere else to other places. ADVERTISEMENTS: The ornithologists in Gujarat explain into a dreary mood: “During our student days we had spotted from kingfisher and hornbill quite easily but it becomes very difficult to find out the birds like turtle dove, hupoe, bulbul and skylark. We are quite disappointed now as these creatures were our great recreation in free time.” The black prey bird in the Shivalik hills is no more visible as it was spotted commonly in the valleys three decades ago. Dhainchoo, Kaljeenth or black prey bird as it is known in the Shivalik hills is quite rare now. The bifurcated tailed bird is visible only after a big effort. The valleys popular for some pheasants and small birds are quite silent and without the songs of birds. This is the dreariest situation for a bird lover who is not capable to locate the beautiful birds of his school days when he passed through scenic valleys and spotted several birds during his taking rest in the open valleys and pastures. “When we pass through these valleys it becomes quite difficult to locate the birds like turtle dove, Skylark. Karaoon, Saraoon, Kaljeenth, Bulbul, Huppoe, Tailorbird, red finch, black finch teetar, chakore, mouse birds, Neelkanth, Peet Pakshi, Himalayan wildfowls, waterfowls, and cheer Pheasant have become quite rare. Some of the birds of the warm valleys have been migrated to the far off forests and wildlands,” said Dr. K.S. Saroj, an expert on wild birds and their habThen why the birds are not returning in these forests and valleys are quite surprising,” she exclaimed. Chakor: Chakor is a bird which comes out of the bushes in moonlit nights and moves here and there in open pastures and valleys in search of food is also not visible. A very few population in the valleys is seen in the morning and evening but in a few numbers. Three decades back, there used to be 20, 15, 10 chakor in groups and used to fly from one place to another in search of food and habitation.