Treat for eyes as winter guests start arriving

With winter setting in, several migratory bird species have started flocking to the wetlands.

- Kushagra Dixit

New Delhi: While certain species of wader birds, like sandpipers, which prefer shallower waters, start arriving by late September, major migratory ducks, like Northern shoveler, Gadwall, Greylag geese, Pallas’s gulls, brown-headed and black-headed gulls, coots, etc have now begun settling in different wetlands of Delhi-NCR, including Yamuna Biodiversity Park and Sultanpur National Park.

Faiyaz A Khudsar, scientist-in-charge of DDAs biodiversity parks. said, “Their numbers and species density will increase by mid-November. He pointed out that the migratory birds arriving here were from central Asia and Siberia and were “energy budgeting”.