The longest in-country migration route of lesser floricans, the endangered birds of the bustard group, has been tracked for the first time from Rajasthan to Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district.
- The telemetry exercise was undertaken in the Shokaliya landscape of Ajmer district to trace the journey of lesser floricans from their breeding grounds to their places of origin, presumably in down South.
- The scientific experiment has succeeded in locating a bird which travelled a distance of 1,000 km after breeding during the monsoon.
- Lesser florican (Sypheotides indicus) is a small and slender bird species belonging to the bustard group.
- It is found in tall grasslands. The endangered bird is observed in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and some other regions during the monsoon season, when it breeds and later disappears with its chicks to unknown places.
- The bird is listed as “critically endangered”(CR) on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species and its population has been identified as “decreasing”.
(Source: The Hindu)
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