Rare ‘Tytler’s leaf Warbler’ bird identified for very first time in Bihar

An uncommon bird – Tytler’s leaf Warbler – was identified for the very first time in Bihar, a state forest authorities said on Sunday.

A medium-sized leaf-warbler with a relatively long and slim expense and popular supercilium was just recently identified at Sundervan in the bird ringing station in Bhagalpur district, state Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests & Chief Wildlife Warden PK Gupta said.

Tytler’s leaf Warbler is a “threatened bird types” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) list.

“During the bird tracking activities at Sundervan in Bhagalpur, we just recently identified a warbler of the Phylloscopidae family.

“It is the very first genuine record of the incident of this types in the lower elevation at an elevation of 52 metres above the mean sea level (MSL) and likewise in the Gangetic plains in Bihar. Therefore, we are really thrilled after the discovery of the unusual bird types,” Gupta informed PTI.

As far as available records, Tytler’s leaf Warbler follows an altitudinal migration, he said.

“It types in the western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand at the high elevation. In winter season, it moves to southern India, especially in the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris,” he said.

Earlier, the types was sometimes spotted in the Saurashtra and Morbi area of Gujarat, Panna and Melghat tiger reserves and Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary (Karnataka), the forest authorities said.

“Collection of the types from Etawah (on April 7, 1879) and Gorakhpur (February 18, 1910) is the easternmost existing record of the types reported throughout return migration,” the chief wildlife warden said, including, after that, ‘no sighting of Tytler’s leaf Warbler has actually been tape-recorded’ from this location.

Gorakhpur, according to the forest terms, is thought about in eastern India.

Bihar has actually ended up being the 4th state in the nation to have a bird ringing (tagging) station where rings are put on the legs of winged types to study their migration pattern, death, territoriality and other behaviour with the help of encrypted codes embedded in the connected tracking gadget, Gupta said.

“Bird ringing is a useful research study instrument utilized to gather details on the survival, efficiency and motion of migratory birds, assisting us to watch on their populations,” the authorities included.