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Winged guests: Vigil stepped up in Chilika [1]

BERHAMPUR: With the onset of winter, feathered guests from Siberia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and central Europe have started arriving in the picturesque Nalabana Bird Sanctuary in the Chilika lake. The twittering of the avian species started last week and since then over 20,000 birds have descended on the Nalabana island so far, according to the wildlife sources.

Publication Date: 
11/11/2008
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar) [2]
Tags:
Birds [3], Migratory Species [4], Chilka (Nalaban) SA [5]
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/chilka-nalaban-sa