Bangladesh Birds Club will do a survey on an endangered migratory bird, waterfowl, at Hakaluki haor today.
A team of 15 experts led by prominent bird specialist Enam Ul Haque is conducting the survey under the Coastal and Wetland Bio-diversity Management Project of Directorate of Environment (DoE).
He is also the national coordinator of waterfowl census in Bangladesh.
The survey, funded by USAID’s Climate Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) project, will be done in six upazilas of Hakaluki Haor area.
Local biologists and bird lovers will also be in the survey team while a zoology team will observe the arrival of guest birds, said DoE officials yesterday.
The survey aims to find out the number of this bird’s species and reasons why the number of this bird is declining, they said.
Bashir Ahmed, Natural Resource Management officer at environment department, told The Daily Star that the survey would end tomorrow.
Earlier in 2011, about 64,000 birds of 61 species were counted during a survey.
In 1999, the DoE declared the Hakaluki Haor an ecologically critical area as its environment with aquatic trees and plants like Hijal and Koroch was being destroyed, resulting in a decrease in the number of migratory birds coming here.
-With The Daily Star input
