Kerala Bird Atlas Project : Environment for UPSC Exams
Kerala Bird Atlas Project : Environment for UPSC Exams
- Kerala Bird Atlas, a citizen science project to map the distribution and abundance of birds in Kerala, began in Wayanad district in July 2016.
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The programme is being coordinated by the Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology, a conservation organisation in the district, in association with the Bird Count India and e-bird.
- This is the first time in India that birds in an entire state are being mapped. The only similar effort was in Mysore city few years back.
- Kerala has the distinction of having six bird monitoring schemes, which includes recording common birds, heronries, water birds, pelagic (sea) birds, and forest birds.
- It is envisaged as a five-year activity. By repeating the process over a period of 25 years.