Question

Five migratory birds coutries through which they travel

Answer 1

Answer:

Birds know no borders

Migration is a huge feat of endurance requiring great strength and stamina. However, today birds face additional threats caused by human activity. Hungry, exhausted birds may arrive at a stopover site, only to find that it has been destroyed by farming or urbanisation. Every year, millions of birds are illegally killed by hunters, or collide with man-made structures such as powerlines. And climate change is causing habitats to shift or disappear.

Flyways

When travelling between their breeding and wintering grounds, birds don’t choose their paths at random. They follow set routes that include suitable habitats where they can stop to rest and refuel along the way. Many different species group together to travel along similar routes, which have been loosely split into eight main flyways – think of them as bird super-highways across the sky. BirdLife links together conservation organisations in countries along the length of the flyways, combining resources and coordinating action to protect birds on every step of their route. Our Flyways Programme focuses on protecting birds across three major global flyways.

African-Eurasian Flyway: connects the breeding grounds of Europe and northern Asia with the wintering grounds in Africa, including vital stop-over sites in the Middle East and Mediterranean

East Asian-Australasian Flyway: connects north-east Asian breeding grounds with wintering grounds in south-east Asia and Australia, including vital stop-over sites in China and the Korean Peninsula

Americas Flyway: connects North American breeding grounds with wintering grounds in the Caribbean and Central and South America

For more information about the Flyways consult the BirdLife DataZone: The Flyway Concept

Key Aims

The key aims of this programme are:

To save threatened migratory species from extinction by addressing main threats and conserve key sites and habitats which will be beneficial to a wider set of migratory species.

To address landscape-scale barriers to migration, especially illegal and unsustainable killing of birds and the proliferation of poorly-planned energy and power transmission infrastructure.

To conserve networks of critical stop-over sites through action on the ground by our Local Conservation Groups.

To strengthen local and national capacity in the stop-over sites by strengthening the collaboration between BirdLife Partners.

To understand and address the wider land-use issues facing migratory birds through targeted research and policy work

Explanation:

Answer 2

MIGRATORY BIRDS

1. BLUETHROAT

They migrate from Alaska to Central Europe and Asia.

2.THE RED KNOT

It travels from far north in the Arctic to the southern tip of South America.

3. OSPREY

In winter, the osprey, which breeds in North America, moves toward Central and South America and also towards Africa.

4.GREATER FLAMINGO

lives in Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary in Rajasthan and Chilika Lake in Odisha .

5.BAR HEADED GEESE

Geese is the highest flying migratory bird, with regularly flying over an altitude of 6 miles above sea level. The bird species mostly were seen in Russia, northern India and western China during the breeding season and move to northern India and northern Burma during the winter season.