Maksam Tayeng

PASIGHAT, Feb 15:  A total of 23 bird species including the "Mew Gull" was spotted for the first time at the Daying Ering Wildlife Sanctuary during the Waterbird Census.
The census was carried out by the DEWS division in association with Eco-Development committee (EDC) of the sanctuary along with Department of Zoology, Rajiv Gandhi University and Bombay Natural History Society  at  the sanctuary’s Borguli Wildlife Range on Saturday as part of Asian Water bird Conservation.
The census team was sent of by Tasang Taga, Divisional Forest Officer in the morning at division office, Pasighat after which the team landed at Borguli wildlife range and carried out the daylong census survey. 
Dr. Biswajit Chakdar, an expert and scientist from BNHS said that the DEWS has the finest and biggest wetland in entire Arunachal Pradesh as the sanctuary is surrounded entirely by the various branches and tributaries of Siang river. “DEWS has many numbers of inter-continental migratory birds from Siberia and China also, as migratory birds after crossing the mighty Himalayan ranges toward Indian Sub-continent first touches plain areas of Siang/Brahmaputra valley in D. Ering WL Sanctuary," he said.
The wetland bird survey has been conducted every year as a part of the International water-bird census since 1967. The census takes place every year in over 100 countries to monitor the water-bird population, changes of the distribution of bird population and to identify wetlands of international importance.  

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