mumbai bird race
January 25, 2007
From: Mrityunjay Bose
Mumbai bird race on Feb 4
MUMBAI: This is a game which gives a person an opportunity to sit, walk, run, drive, and what not! The third edition of the Mumbai Bird Race would be hosted on February 4 and this event promises to be bigger than never before.
Conceived on the lines of the bird race in Hong Kong, the Mumbai Bird Race is spreading its wings and is now being held in other cities too. "This time we are expecting more participation," says Mumbai-based ornithologist Sunjoy Monga, who is associated with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and is associated with the HSBC Mumbai Bird Race.
In this race, the team which identifies the maximum number of birds in a day wins the race – and there is an expert team to judge it and hence there is no question of inflating the number of species that one sees during the day. Each team consists of four people, neither less nor more, and the team leader must be a good amateur ornithologist himself. It begins at dawn and ends at sunset.
In the Mumbai Bird Race 2006, the different teams identified 283 different species of birds in the city as against 277 that were spotted during Mumbai Bird Race 2005 – when it was held for this first time in India.
There are strict rules, though. There is a fun element to this exercise and this helps stimulate enormous interest in bird-watching as a popular hobby and just gives us a good idea of the nature of this region's birdlife, besides building up support for environment and nature conservation.
The locations for the event include the Sanjay Gandhi National Park , the Karnala sanctuary, Phansad sanctuary, Aarey Colony, Nagla trail beyond the Bassein creek, Ghodbunder area, Kanheri, Tungareshwar and so on.
Each team has a bird logbook with appropriately marked columns for reporting observations. The logbook contains a detailed listing of all species of birds recorded in this region over the past 20 years. In this they have to mark the entries, record the bird species that they have seen during the day-long trail. In the evening, adjudicators analyse the logbook at the
Mahim Nature Park and the results are announced. During the competition, the team members have access to vehicles.
Mumbai and neighbouring Thane and Raigad districts has nearly 300 different bird species.
(This story was first published in The Maharashtra Herald, Pune)
From: Mrityunjay Bose
Mumbai bird race on Feb 4
MUMBAI: This is a game which gives a person an opportunity to sit, walk, run, drive, and what not! The third edition of the Mumbai Bird Race would be hosted on February 4 and this event promises to be bigger than never before.
Conceived on the lines of the bird race in Hong Kong, the Mumbai Bird Race is spreading its wings and is now being held in other cities too. "This time we are expecting more participation," says Mumbai-based ornithologist Sunjoy Monga, who is associated with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and is associated with the HSBC Mumbai Bird Race.
In this race, the team which identifies the maximum number of birds in a day wins the race – and there is an expert team to judge it and hence there is no question of inflating the number of species that one sees during the day. Each team consists of four people, neither less nor more, and the team leader must be a good amateur ornithologist himself. It begins at dawn and ends at sunset.
In the Mumbai Bird Race 2006, the different teams identified 283 different species of birds in the city as against 277 that were spotted during Mumbai Bird Race 2005 – when it was held for this first time in India.
There are strict rules, though. There is a fun element to this exercise and this helps stimulate enormous interest in bird-watching as a popular hobby and just gives us a good idea of the nature of this region's birdlife, besides building up support for environment and nature conservation.
The locations for the event include the Sanjay Gandhi National Park , the Karnala sanctuary, Phansad sanctuary, Aarey Colony, Nagla trail beyond the Bassein creek, Ghodbunder area, Kanheri, Tungareshwar and so on.
Each team has a bird logbook with appropriately marked columns for reporting observations. The logbook contains a detailed listing of all species of birds recorded in this region over the past 20 years. In this they have to mark the entries, record the bird species that they have seen during the day-long trail. In the evening, adjudicators analyse the logbook at the
Mahim Nature Park and the results are announced. During the competition, the team members have access to vehicles.
Mumbai and neighbouring Thane and Raigad districts has nearly 300 different bird species.
(This story was first published in The Maharashtra Herald, Pune)
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