Every year during autumn and winter, small birds like the willow warbler migrate long distances from their nesting grounds to warmer lands to escape the cold and find food, making brave voyages. Scientists track bird migrations by capturing birds and placing numbered metal or plastic bands on their legs that provide information to those who find the banded birds. Many species that visit India's lakes, such as ducks and wagtails, migrate from central Asia and Siberia.
Every year during autumn and winter, small birds like the willow warbler migrate long distances from their nesting grounds to warmer lands to escape the cold and find food, making brave voyages. Scientists track bird migrations by capturing birds and placing numbered metal or plastic bands on their legs that provide information to those who find the banded birds. Many species that visit India's lakes, such as ducks and wagtails, migrate from central Asia and Siberia.
Every year during autumn and winter, small birds like the willow warbler migrate long distances from their nesting grounds to warmer lands to escape the cold and find food, making brave voyages. Scientists track bird migrations by capturing birds and placing numbered metal or plastic bands on their legs that provide information to those who find the banded birds. Many species that visit India's lakes, such as ducks and wagtails, migrate from central Asia and Siberia.
THEIR WINGS Every year during autumn and early winter birds travel from their nestlings places to warmer lands. The willow warbler is the smallest of all the birds. The young migrating birds are the brave little voyagers. They make the return journey during spring and early summer. Ringing is done by capturing a bird and placing on its leg a light band of metal of plastic. The band bears a number, date, an identification mark and the address to which the finder is requested to return the ring. The wild duck, the Rosy Pastor and the wagtail come to our lakes from central Asia and Siberia. Birds migrate in winter to escape the cold and to find food. The Himalayas are 2,400 kms far away from Nilgris. P. KAMATCHI KARUR