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The archetypal State-wide raptor appraisal is scheduled connected January 31 and February 1, 2026.
The Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats, and coastal wetlands of Tamil Nadu are captious raptor habitats. Increasing threats specified arsenic situation loss, poisoning, electrocution, and amerciable commercialized necessitate localised conservation efforts. To conserve raptor species, their population, biology, and ecology request to beryllium studied and understood, wood officials said.
Through the Tamil Nadu Raptor Research Foundation initiative, Advanced Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC) aims to measure the raptor colonisation done a State-wide synchronised raptor survey. The appraisal is planned to see some diurnal and nocturnal raptors.
February 1 being a afloat satellite time increases the chances of documenting nocturnal birds specified arsenic owls and nightjars. Over 50 wood divisions of Tamil Nadu volition beryllium participating successful the archetypal State-wide assessment. The survey squad volition execute a conveyance and ft survey during the diurnal hours and opt for a constituent number method utilizing a conveyance for the nocturnal assessment.
Tamil Nadu is simply a important situation for raptors, hosting implicit 65 raptor taxon of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes, and Strigiformes | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
AIWC has performed in-person and virtual raptor appraisal trainings for the tract officers of the Tamil Nadu Forest Department. The full country is gridded into 4,068 blocks and aimed to measure one-tenth of the Tamil Nadu landscape, which amounts to 411 blocks. Each artifact is simply a 32-sq. km grid.
The archetypal time of the survey volition see a pre-survey grooming astatine the divisional level by the nodal serviceman and nocturnal assessment. On the 2nd day, the diurnal raptor appraisal volition instrumentality place.
Tamil Nadu is simply a important situation for raptors, hosting implicit 65 raptor taxon of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes, and Strigiformes. Raptors are keystone taxon and supply assorted ecosystem services and are considered bio-indicators of biology health. Decline of raptors globally hinders the ecosystem functions of birds of prey, including pollination, effect dispersal, scavenging, and predation.
The appraisal is aimed to screen each types of ecosystems, including forests, hillocks, cultivation files, wetlands, coastal areas, dump yards, and different important hotspots of raptors. The result of the appraisal is to recognize the raptor distribution, place threats, and further raptor hotspots for devising aboriginal conservation strategies, AIWC officials said.
