• Visit www.birdcount.in to track the migration route of birds with an animated migration map
  • The most well-known example for long distance migration is the Arctic tern. the latest is a female bar-tailed godwit that set a landbird flight record - 12,200 km from Alaska to New Zealand, in eight days and 12 hours!
  • Birds like cuckoos (one named Onon has been making news in the last couple of years), eagles and smaller song birds like swallows and warblers are being tracked
  • The Indian pitta makes a North India to South India trip, every winter