Winter visitors
- POSTED ON: 2 Dec, 2023
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- POSTED BY: R. Krithika | Text by Payal Bhojwani Molur
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Winter in India brings with it some exciting guests to our land. Yes, we are talking about birds. Did you know that birds use a sort of a highway to migrate, which is guided by monsoon winds and the flow of jet streams? Imagine a bird super-highway from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean! That’s the Central Asian Flyway (CAF), one of the nine migration flyways in the world. It is also one of the richest in terms of diversity, hosting over 180 species from breeding grounds in Siberia to warmer realms in West Asia, India, and the Maldives.
So let’s take a look at some of our flamboyant high-flying winged visitors. Click on the name of the bird to read about it.
With inputs from Byju H.