With the onset of winter, over three lakh migratory birds from central Asia and southern Europe have arrived at more than 400 water bodies in the Kashmir Valley. Thousands of Mallards, Common Mergansers, Northern Pintails, Common Pochards, Red-crested Pochards, Ruddy Shelducks, Northern Shovelers, Common Teals, Eurasian Wigeons, Tufted Ducks, Gadwalls, Brahminy Ducks, Garganeys, and Greylag Geese have come to Kashmir in the first batch of migration this season. Wildlife warden of Jammu & Kashmir wildlife protection department, Abdul Rauf Zargar, told TOI that the birds mainly throng the wetlands of…
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