CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The first Bird-ringing station of the country, set up with support of a state government, is to be built in the state of Bihar. This is the fourth such facility in the country. The station, whose main centre is to be built at Bhagalpur, is dedicated for observation, monitoring and research on migratory birds.

Detailed explanation-2: -At which place in Bihar, North India’s first bird ringing station has been recently opened ? Notes: Bhagalpur in Bihar is going to get North India’s first and India’s fourth bird ringing station. Other three bird ringing stations are at Tamilnadu (Chennai), Rajasthan (Jaipur), Orissa (Bhuvneshwar).

Detailed explanation-3: -PATNA: Bihar is set to become north India’s first “bird ringing station” for observation, monitoring and research on migratory birds, fourth state in the country after Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Orissa. The fourth would be in Bihar’s Bhgalapur, which is one of three known breeding places apart from Cambodia and Assam.

Detailed explanation-4: -At these stations, rings are placed on legs of birds. The rings come with chips which help in tracking the origin of the birds and the route taken by these during migration.

Detailed explanation-5: -Flamingoes have also arrived as spot-billed pelicans, curlew sandpipers, black-winged stilts, lesser sand plovers, common redshanks, little stints, gull-billed terns, brown-headed hulls, and Great knots.