Future of Bird watching in India.

Future of Bird watching in India.

Bird watching in India has gained a strong growth. With the binoculars at affordable price and the peoples liking in photography has made this grow very widespread. There are number of field guides which are available in almost all languages to make people’s interest grow in birding. Even birdwatching is contributing to the economy of India. Based on assumption there is an estimate which says the income from birding was 113 crores in 2009-2010.

Now a days many birding oriented resorts and eco-camps have come up across the country. There are birding tours been conducted all over India by the experts to sensitize people about the beauty of avian fauna in India. Many researchers like Shashank Dalvi are involved in identifying new species and making Indian avian fauna still richer. With the new citizen science initiative now lot many people are actively involved in gathering the data about the birds, which is helping scientist to determine how birds are affected by habitat loss, pollution, and disease. 

They are also able to trace bird migration and document long-term changes in bird numbers continent wide. The results derived have been used to create management guidelines for birds, investigate the effects of acid rain and climate change, and advocate for the protection of declining species. Hence individual’s participation in gathering data and contributing to science can bring a big change. In future this might also boom up as a tourism industry by contributing huge income, because everyone’s pastime is birding and bird photography. It is all meant for deriving people towards wildlife conservation and awaking people about the climate change and its effects through this. We are fortunate to be blessed to live in the country with great wildlife around and conserving this is a change we have in front of us today.

REFERENCE:

BNHS Archives.

Handbook of the Birds of Indian and Pakistan by Salim ali and S.Dillon ripley.

All India Birding tours.

US Fish and Wildlife services.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology.