Avifaunal Diversity and Water Quality Analysis of an Inland Pond, Kondagai Village, Sivaganga District, South India

Eternal Attachment of Demoiselle Crane (<i>Anthropoides virgo</i>) to the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India

“…The plentiful migratory birds of many species are flocking into the desert region from September to February month of every year. The stay of any migratory birds at a place during visiting hours depends on temperature, security, food availability, and water level [9] while the large numbers of anthropogenic activities like uses of pesticide in agriculture, deforestation, livestock grazing, hunting, fishing, development of industries and urbanization, sound pollution are some of the major threats to the bird diversity [10] along with the mining of banks and beds of wetlands and rivers for sand, gravel and stones, lowering food supply and reduced roosting habitat for birds [11]. The minimum human interference in the ecosystem in terms of developmental activity in and in vicinity of wetlands are the other important feature which provides favourable conditions to the migratory birds [12].…”