Second UP International Bird Festival sees 36000 participants - hopeful for a Guinness Record

The second UP International Bird Festival sees 36000 participants and UP is hopeful of bagging a Guinness Record. It has already got to its credit one Guinness Record for this year for planting maximum trees in one go across the state.
It now wants another one for its bird watching activity that was carried out simultaneously at 452 locations in which over 36,000 persons participated.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 2 December 2016.

It seems a total of more than 1.9 lakh birds were spotted in the span of one day. As per forest officials, no such attempt was ever made in the past where such a large number of people participated in such a coordinated event. Hence, it would apply to the Guinness Book of World Records for this event.
It may be recalled that the UP government has recently been awarded Guinness record of planting 5 crore saplings in 24 hours in July 2016.
This is the second edition of the UP Bird Festival and it is being organized between December 2 and 4 at Chambal safari Lodge in Bah located some 80-Km from Agra. There are around 45 international foreign bird watchers from 26 countries apart from 100 Indian experts who are participating in the event.


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