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Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Text Size:A-A+New Delhi: It’s a visual treat for Mumbai these days with thousands of migratory flamingoes painting the city pink.Despite a delay in their annual migration to wetlands in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) this year, the birds have come visiting with record high numbers.Maharashtra: A large number of migratory Flamingo birds seen at the creek in Navi Mumbai.— ANI (@ANI)The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) said there has been a in flamingo migration since 2019, when 1.2 lakh birds had come visiting. This year, over 1.5 lakh birds were spotted in the first week of April itself.The society attributed this increase to lower human activity in areas such as Sewri, Thane Creek and the Talawe wetlands, comprising the NRI Complex, Seawoods and TS Chanakya in Navi Mumbai.These areas would normally see a lot of construction work and human activity but the nationwide lockdown has created ideal conditions for the flamingoes to forage in the wetlands around these places.Deepak Apte, director of BNHS, the lockdown has given flamingoes a moment of peace and quiet to roost without disturbance. “Wetland destruction and developmental activities across several areas of the eastern seafront is another reason why larger bird numbers are getting squeezed into smaller pockets like in Navi Mumbai,” he explained.The spike in the number of migratory flamingoes last year, from the usual 30,000-40,000 to 1.2 lakh, to an increase in sewage output and industrial runoff, which caused an increase of blue-green algae that these birds feed on.Also read:Actors like Dia Mirza, Raveena Tandon and Twinkle Khanna shared photos of the migratory birds on social media.Our ! VISIBLE and peaceful. No social distancing here, just doing her duty. Building balance and creating harmony. Thank you for sharing this pictures from today.— Dia Mirza (@deespeak)A sea of pink!— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena)Stunning!— Twinkle Khanna (@mrsfunnybones)Out of the six flamingo species found in the world, the greater flamingo (taller, with a black-tipped pink bill) and the near-threatened lesser flamingo (shorter, with a dark crimson bill) are in India.A has found that the number of lesser flamingoes are on the rise in India while the number of greater flamingoes are declining.Flamingoes are considered iconic in Mumbai. Since the , flocks of 30,000-40,000 of the bird have been settling along the Thane Creek between September and April.These birds from the north-west part of India, from Kutch in Gujarat and Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan. A smaller number of the birds are believed to fly in from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Israel.The Mumbai Metropolitan Region is said to be the the second-largest flamingo habitat along the west coast after Kutch, according to BNHS, which began its first formal survey of flamingos in the Thane Creek in 2018 as part of a of wading birds.Also read:&nbsp;&nbsp;Support Our JournalismIndia needs fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism, packed with on-ground reporting. ThePrint – with exceptional reporters, columnists and editors – is doing just that.Sustaining this needs support from wonderful readers like you.Whether you live in India or overseas, you can take a paid subscription by clicking .Substance of Print, Reach of DigitalContact us:Copyright © 2022 Printline Media Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.&nbsp;

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Text Size:A-A+New Delhi: It’s a visual treat for Mumbai these days with thousands of migratory flamingoes painting the city pink.Despite a delay in their annual migration to wetlands in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) this year, the birds have come visiting with record high numbers.Maharashtra: A large number of migratory Flamingo birds seen at the creek in Navi Mumbai.— ANI (@ANI)The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) said there has been a in flamingo migration since 2019,...

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