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Guided trail organized inside Panidihing Bird Sanctuary for Birding and Botanizing
The office of the Divisional Forest Officer (Territorial), Sivasagar division on Tuesday successfully organized a guided trail to Kandulijan Beel and Phulai Beel for birding and botanizing inside Panidihing Bird Sanctuary.
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DEMOW: The office of the Divisional Forest Officer (Territorial), Sivasagar division on Tuesday successfully organized a guided trail to Kandulijan Beel and Phulai Beel for birding and botanizing inside Panidihing Bird Sanctuary.
The objective of the event was to instill curiosity and scientific spirit amongst the students towards importance of wetland and grassland ecosystem. Around 73 students in two groups covered 1.5 km trail to the respective Beel destination. Four prominent colleges and three high schools actively participated.
Mandarin duck in Assam | Photo Credit:
Gunjan Gogoi
The beautiful Mandarin duck has shown up in Assam after a century, much to the excitement of the birding community, and it is not alone
“I couldn’t believe it,” says Madhab Gogoi excitedly over the phone from Assam, about his surprise date with the spectacular-looking bird in the early weeks of February. He was at Maguri-Motapung
beel (wetland) in Tinsukia district, Assam, birdwatching in the wetlands when he noticed a colourful bird floating on the surface of the lake. Curious, he zoomed in with his binoculars and realised that it was the Mandarin duck, a rare bird that was last seen in Assam in the 1900s.
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Rathin Barman, joint director of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) confirmed the sighting to
The Wire Science and said, “The birds were sighted by Tiken Chandra Ray at Chaurang village in the Panbari Range of the park. He found the birds seven days ago.”
He added that “some villagers had tried to kill the birds” while “some others requested them to do no harm or disturb the birds.”
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The Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), often described as the most beautiful duck in the world , was first discovered and logged by Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The Mandarin Duck. (Image courtesy: Twitter @mpk visuals)
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The duck was introduced in the Far East but can still be found in China, Japan, Korea and even parts of Russia
These ducks are believed to extremely agile fliers, able to drift and manoeuvre through trees with great proficiency. They often take up perches in trees with the female seeks out a hole or cavity in a tree trunk in which to lay eggs