Nagaland
Nagaland named in world’s top ten list for bird-watching
Dimapur, March 18 (EMN): Nagaland has been featured in the National Geographic’s top ten list of ‘the world’s best destinations for bird-watching’. The magazine published its list in the second week of March.
In its website version, the magazine has offered a slide-show inviting its readers to ‘slow down for epic spectacles of nature in these world wonders for birding’. The roosting sites for Amur falcons in the forest that surrounds the Doyang reservoir in Wokha district has been declared as one of such ‘world wonder for birding’ by the famous publication.
“Several years ago, when conservationists visited the remote province of Nagaland on the border of India and Myanmar, they discovered more than a million Amur falcons gathering in dense roosts near Doyang Reservoir—apparently a launching point for the falcons’ nonstop, 13,000-mile migratory flight to southern Africa. At its peak in October, this stopover may hold the world’s largest concentration of raptors,” it remarked. Once the source of worldwide notoriety when widespread hunting of the Amur falcons was reported, Nagaland over the years has come to represent a model for grassroots conservation of the migratory birds.
Other locations named in the magazine’s top ten list include the Kruger National Park in South Africa, the Hula Valley in Israel, Mindo in Ecuador, the Kakum National Park in Ghana, the New Guinea Highlands, the Broome in Western Australia, Pantanal in Brazil, Cape May in New Jersey (USA), and the South Georgia Island (a place in the southern Atlantic ocean which is a part of British Overseas Territory).