Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Saturday, May 18, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, May 18, 2002 |
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Wildlife A unique experience for bird-watchers Our Bureau
BANGALORE, May 17 ABOUT 95 km from Bangalore, a unique sight awaits bird-watchers. About 5,000 painted storks have arrived at Veerapura, north of Bangalore (off NH 7 - Bangalore-Bellary Highway) near Gudibanda, in batches and have started building nests. The birds have built around 800 nests on some 21 trees. Neither is Veerapura an alien nesting place for these birds nor is the arrival of birds a strange experience for the residents. The storks used to breed here regularly for about 30 years until 1982. Then they abandoned the place probably due to cutting down of trees, poaching of eggs by humans and animals, according to villagers here. After five years, they resumed nesting activities and the number of visitors has since then steadily increased. Now the villagers are vigilant and are taking measures to protect the storks from danger. The breeding colony at Veerpaura is perhaps the largest known congregation of painted storks in Asia. In Karnataka, painted storks nest in two colonies— Kokre Bellur near Maddur and Kaggaladu, near Sira. This year there has been a decline in the number of storks visiting these two nesting colonies. Painted storks are found only in South Asia and South-East Asia and are distributed in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal among others.
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