Aalo, Mar 3: The inaugural edition of the Aalo Bird Walk titled "Feathers and Footsteps," was organised by the West Siang District Administration and the Siang team of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE-Siang), in collaboration with the Forest and Tourism Department on Saturday.
The event packed an array of engaging activities, including educational talks on bird identification, the significance of bird conservation, and a fun quiz, in which 20 students from Aalo SFS college participated and performed very well.
During the walk which took place on the evening of 2nd and morning of 3rd March, a total of 57 species were seen and observed by around 45 people who participated during the walk and the orientation session.
"It was very exciting to have such an enthusiastic response to the 1st Aalo bird walk, particularly from the local youths,” said Mamu Hage, the District Commissioner of West Siang herself being an avid birder. We want to continue this effort in the future too, she added.
"The bird walk, despite cold, cloudy and misty weather, was a huge success and the biggest highlight was the sighting of at least 1000 Common Cranes in flight, probably on their way back to the breeding grounds,” noted Dr. Rajkamal Goswami, who leads the ATREE-Siang team based at Pasighat. "This is the first record of this species from West Siang and probably the second record from the entire Siang Valley and confirms the importance of Siang Valley being an important riverine corridor for major migratory birds & since we also saw about 2000 bar-headed geese only in about one hour of bird walk, which is also a very significant record for Siang Valley,” he emphasized.

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