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Migratory birds start arriving in haor, hilly areas in Netrakona


Bangladeshpost
Published : 14 Dec 2019 06:57 PM | Updated : 06 Sep 2020 09:48 PM

Md Abdul Hannan Ranjan, Netrakona 

With the beginning of winter, the migratory birds have started arriving at different water bodies of haor and hilly areas in Netrakona district. But, this year, the number of arriving migratory birds is almost very less than previous years.

Local people said that the migratory birds had been arriving from the Himalayan and Siberian region to the haor and hilly areas of the district in massive numbers even a couple of decades ago.

Besides, the number of migratory birds has declined in the recent years following adverse impacts of climate change due to rise in the global temperature, opined agriculturists.

The average temperature has been continued to rising the Himalayan, Siberian, Nepal and Mongolian regions making those places habitable to some extent for birds even during the winter now a days, they added.

On the other hand, the reduction number of water bodies and depletion of many species of sweet water fishes in the haor and hilly areas are the main cause for reducing the number arriving migratory birds in the district.

The adverse impact of climate change and drying up of different water bodies mainly beels, zeels as well as reverence created threat to bio-diversity, ecology and environment.

An elderly citizen Golam Mustafa Chowdhury (85) of Borantor, a haor surrounded village of Mohongonj upazila under the district said, a few number of Bali duck, Samukol, Bright, Rose king, Bali Lenja, Chity, Sarail, Borkol, etc. are seen in the haor areas in the district this year.