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Every year as the winters arrive, thousands of demoiselle cranes fly over the high peaks of the Himalayas, all the way from Mongolia, to take rest in the qua...
Siberian Crane migration in India is huge. Drone video shooting helps in capturing some migratory birds. A road trip taken during the weekend - I have tried ...
India. Historically, Siberian Cranes of the Central Asian Flock overwintered in wetlands in the Etawah and Mainpuri districts of India. In the nineteenth century, after the creation of artificial wetlands in Bharatpur, Rajasthan state, in northwestern India, Siberian Cranes were observed in the Bharatpur wetlands regularly.
11 Μαΐ 2018 · Three hours north of Jodhpur, the village of Khichan, in India's Thar Desert, is an unlikely place for a wildlife spectacle. But for one bird species, the elegant demoiselle crane, the Khichan Bird Sanctuary is a paradise worth migrating across a continent for.
Among the cranes, they make the longest distance migrations. Their populations, particularly those in the western range, have declined drastically in the 20th century due to hunting along their migration routes and habitat degradation.
The Siberian crane population vanished from the Central Flyway route in Siberia, which leads to India, due to ecological turbulences along the flight path. To reinstate the traditional flyway, ornithologists around the world devised a method to bring back the young brood of the migratory species to India.
It is migratory, breeding in eastern Asia (Russia) and wintering in other parts of eastern and southeast Asia (Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Cambodia). It used to winter in central and northern India until the early 2000s, but that migratory subpopulation is now possibly extinct (BirdLife International 2018). Conservation Status:
