Summary:
The Chilika Lake in Odisha, which can be expected to have a high bird count, thanks to the undisturbed ecosystem, has a lower bird count than Hyderabad. more-inHyderabad has one of the highest bird species density in Telangana with 320 species, despite being a booming metropolis with shrinking green cover, according to a bird count survey. The real-time bird count that can be used for birding has a caveat: “This is from birdlists uploaded to eBird-India by birdwatchers and so reflects a combination of diversity and birding activity.”An element of bias in the bird count comes from the fact that the data is crowd-sourced. In contrast, Vikarabad, Nalgonda and Khammam, which have fewer human habitations and higher forest cover, have a lower bird count. Not surprisingly, the Western ghats and the Himalaya ranges have the highest bird species density in the country..