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Forest officials successful Tamil Nadu program to motorboat an extended tract workout to recognize the presumption of hornbill populations crossed wood landscapes.
Timed to coincide with the birds’ breeding season, the effort is portion of the State’s inaugural for hornbill conservation announced earlier this year, a elder authoritative said.
Beginning successful precocious December, teams volition survey hornbill habitats until the extremity of March oregon aboriginal April 2026. The archetypal signifier volition screen the Anamalai, Srivilliputhur–Megamalai and Kalakkad–Mundathurai tiger reserves, on with the Karamadai and Mettupalayam ranges nether the Coimbatore wood division. These locations were prioritised based connected earlier records and sightings of hornbills, the authoritative said.
The survey is expected to beryllium carried retired utilizing the enactment transect method, wherein wood personnel, biologists and researchers volition locomotion respective kilometres each time done identified habitats to grounds sightings and estimation colonisation density.
Four taxon are expected to beryllium documented during the survey — the Great Hornbill, Malabar Grey Hornbill, Indian Grey Hornbill and Malabar Pied Hornbill. Beyond colonisation counts, the inaugural besides aims to support habitat, peculiarly the conservation of large, mature trees with earthy hollows that hornbills beryllium connected for nesting, the authoritative added.
In July 2025, the State authorities announced the constitution of the country’s archetypal Centre of Excellence for Hornbill Conservation astatine the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) successful Coimbatore district.
Once the existent signifier is completed, the survey is expected to supply close colonisation estimates that volition assistance usher semipermanent conservation strategies.
