Indian Bird Conservation Network (IBCN) have spotted 9,000 weaver birds in Odisha

The Indian Bird Conservation Network (IBCN) have spotted 9,000 weaver birds in Odisha during a two-day baya weaver count this month which had been undertaken on June 5 and 12 as part of IBCN's pan-India count under Bombay Natural History Society's Common Bird Monitoring Program. The intention was to ascertain the number of Baya weaver birds in the country.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 19 June 2016.

Weaver bird sightings have been recorded and reported from select sites in Khurda, Cuttack, Nayagarh, Ganjam, Mayurbhanj, Kendrapara, Keonjhar and Puri districts. Odisha is home to three weaver birds species - Baya weaver (common Baya or Indian weaver), streaked weaver and black-breasted weaver (black-throated weaver).
The sparrow-sized weaver birds are known for their nest-weaving skills and is the only species that builds suspended pendulous nests in colonies, usually above water.
Weaver nests were also spotted on palm, banyan and other trees at many other places during the count in the eight districts.
However, there is a decline in the number of weaver birds and this is attributed to growing human population and development has worried ornithologists. They said most weaver birds, which were once a common species across India, are undergoing a slow but steady population decline with the increasing loss and modification of grasslands into human-dominated landscape such as farms, factories, canals, roads and rapid increase in human population.


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