By IANS,
Mumbai : In order to create awareness about winged visitors and the danger posed to wetlands by encroachments and dumping of debris, the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) will hold a Flamingo Festival April 16.
To be held at Sewri jetty in south-central Mumbai, the fifth edition of the festival will be inaugurated by the BNHS vice president Pheroza Godrej. The event is sponsored by the Soonabai Pirojsha Godrej Foundation.
“Generally, flamingos arrive in November. But this time they have arrived only in January. Around 15,000 flamingos have already arrived at the Sewri-Mahul mudflats,” said a BNHS spokesperson.
The mudflats have become homes for migratory birds such as flamingos, western reef herons, egrets, plovers, common greenshanks, brown-headed gulls, terns, sandpipers, black-headed ibis, redshanks, white-throated kingfisher, pariah kite and purple heron.
Ornithologists will be present at the festival and will provide interesting insight and information on flamingos. The festival will be held on the mudflats from 2 p.m. till sunset.