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Bird watchers, researchers and environmentalists from crossed Tamil Nadu, aft taking portion successful a ‘first of its kind’ Conclave connected ‘Declining Migratory Bird Populations successful Tamil Nadu’ successful Tiruppur connected Sunday chose not to gully inference from the evident formation patterns of the winged visitors.
The lawsuit organised by Nature Society of Tiruppur connected the theme: Understanding the decline, strengthening conservation, and protecting habitats, witnessed experts discussing imaginable reasons including situation destruction, encroachment of h2o bodies, and clime change.
The Conclave was necessitated by observations by vertebrate researchers successful Coimbatore, Madurai, and coastal districts astir the continuous diminution successful the populations implicit the past 3 years.
In the Open Forum that followed a league connected ‘migration signifier investigation and tract reports’, Appavu Pavendhan, Species Leader, Coimbatore Nature Society, presented statistical information based connected bi-annual observations astatine 1,000 points crossed the State, which indicated that the populations of of migratory and inland birds was higher successful 2024 compared to 2025.
Presiding over, P. Pramod, Senior Principal Scientist, Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, explained that variations successful the paths of migratory paths instrumentality spot each 10 years connected an average.
While discussing astir clime alteration arsenic a reason, participants did not discount the anticipation of the wintertime migration of the birds from highly acold locations successful Europe getting impacted owed to the planetary warming. War concern successful definite parts of the globe and the disturbances successful h2o bodies astatine stopover spots en way were besides discussed arsenic a causative factors.
There was unanimity successful the presumption of experts that the migratory birds take to enactment backmost astatine their wintertime locations astatine times erstwhile the clime is not utmost and is conducive for survival. There were besides instances of migratory birds staying backmost and reproducing, Dr. Pramod said, citing the lawsuit of flamingoes from Iran surviving permanently successful coastal Rameswaram.
Ravindran Kamatchi, president, Nature Society of Tiruppur, said a determination was taken astatine the conclave to marque the lawsuit an yearly affair.
