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21st Indian Birding Fair begins at Jaipur

February 12 , 2018 2477 days 1045 0
  • The Tourism and Wildlife Society of India had organised the 21st Indian Birding Fair at the Man Sagar Lake in Jiapur, Rajasthan.
  • This year, this fair is dedicated to the White Naped Tit bird, which is quite rare in Jaipur and are at the verge of extinction.

white-naped tit (Machlolophus nuchalis)

  • White-Naped is a robust, strongly patterned, mainly black-and-white coloured bird with yellow in the flanks and sides of the breast.
  • The white-naped tit (Machlolophus nuchalis) is endemic to India where it is found in dry thorn scrub forest in two disjunct populations, in western India and southern India.
  • The bird is found in Udaipur and in some regions of Kutch as well.
  • International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the bird as vulnerable because of the scarcity of suitable habitats.

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