On Saturday, BNHS-India has organised its annual flamingo festival in support with Mumbai Port Trust and has told people to watch the birds from up close before work on Mumbai Trans Harbour Link begins.
Mumbaikars can have a date this weekend with the city's most famous 'pink' visitors — the flamingos that flock the Sewri-Mahul wetlands, a bird watcher's paradise, during the winter.
On Saturday, BNHS-India has organised its annual flamingo festival in support with Mumbai Port Trust and has told people to watch the birds from up close before work on Mumbai Trans Harbour Link begins.
Expressing worries about this project that aims to connect Sewri with Uran, which is scheduled to commence later this year, as per government reports, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) officials claimed that it is likely that waterbirds, including flamingos, may get disturbed and fly away, when the work begins, due to noise pollution and movement of construction equipment.
"In the medium term, this could also lead to changes in their migration preferences. Thus, this year's flamingo festival offers a unique and possibly the last chance to view the birds in all their beauty spread out on the mudflats, with the backdrop of lush mangroves," stated a BNHS release.
"This hugely popular annual event, which takes the form of a 'nature fair', provides an excellent opportunity to closely observe and enjoy dozens of species of wetland birds, with over 15,000 flamingos as the main attraction," said Atul Sathe, assistant director (education and communication), BNHS-India, who informed that apart from observing flamingos, this was a good opportunity to see other species of resident and migratory waterbirds, including various species of herons, egrets, cormorants, ibises, gulls, terns, plovers, sandpipers and kingfishers, under the guidance of BNHS experts.
The event will be open for everyone and entry is free; free bus services will be arranged from Sewri railway station (east) for visitors from 12pm to 5pm.
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