The Chandigarh Forest and Wildlife Department has actually for now abandoned its concept of acquiring 70 unique birds, at a cost of Rs 70 lakh, for its park-cum-exotic bird aviary situated at Nagar Van.
The department, rather authorities said, will concentrate on increasing the existing numbers at Nagar Van by producing an environment which contributes for breeding of today unique birds.
The park-cum-exotic bird aviary at Nagar Van had actually been inaugurated by the then nation’s First Lady, Kavita Kovind, in November, 2021. The bird park stretches on around 6.5 acres of land in Nagar Van and at present homes around 780 unique birds, 280 of which remain in sets.More than 3 lots sets of birds of various types have actually been reproduced effectively in the park up until now, an authorities said.
The Chandigarh Forest and Widlife Department, through the Forest Society for Conservation (FOSCON)— a society established by UT Administratior to take care of the bird park — had actually drifted a tender in 2015 that had actually proposed a Rs 70 lakh spending to obtain around 70 unique birds.
An authorities said that the park has actually likewise been getting some unique birds as contributions from homeowners of Chandigarh, who feel that their family pets would have a much better life at Nagar Van than at their homes. Albeit their numbers are not really high, the majority of birds that are contributed are budgerigars or cockatoos. The unique family pets contributed by homeowners are very first keep in seclusion, as they are inspected by veterinary physicians, prior to being permitted to join other birds.
“We have abandoned the idea of procuring more exotic birds for the time being for now. We decided to instead shift our focus on the successful breeding of the birds which are already available with us at the park. We have also decided to upgrade the facilities and will add more incubators in the bird park. So far, we have witnessed the successful breeding of pairs of wood duck, pheasants, budgerigars, and swans in the park. These exotic birds that are bred here have adopted to the atmosphere. We have also been working to add more features in the park. The overall idea of this park is to introduce people to exotic birds, get them to see it up close and personal,” said Debendra Dalai, Chief Conservator of Forest (CCF), Chandigarh. An authorities included that the money which was to be invest in procuring of more unique birds will now be diverted for the maintenance of the bird park.
The bird park at present has 2 little aviaries and two-walk through aviaries.
The society had actually drifted the tender to obtain a lots various type of birds, a few of which would have costed around Rs 4 lakh. The list of birds, which the department wished to obtain consisted of black-necked swans, crested cranes, white swans, umbrella cockatoos, ducorps cockatoos, golden pheasant, silver pheasant.
In August, 2022, a minimum of 11 newly-born budgerigars had actually been launched in the primary enclosure of Chandigarh Bird Park already Chandigarh Home Secretary, Nitin Kumar Yadav.
