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Blue Bird Lake
Lake and Migratory Birds
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Blue Bird Lake
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Blue Bird Lake
Blue Bird Lake (India)
Coordinates: 29°10′46″N75°43′7″E / 29.17944°N 75.71861°E / 29.17944; 75.71861 Coordinates: 29°10′46″N75°43′7″E / 29.17944°N 75.71861°E / 29.17944; 75.71861
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Haryana
District Hisar
Founded by Forests Department, Haryana
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
Telephone code+91-(01662)-275568/275131
Website Official website

Blue Bird Lake, Hisar is a resident and endangered migratory bird wetland habitat, lake and recreation area in the town of Hisar, in the Hisar district of Haryana State, India. [1] [2]

Hisar (city) City in Haryana, India

Hisar is the administrative headquarters of Hisar district of Hisar division in the state of Haryana in northwestern India. It is located 164 km (102 mi) to the west of New Delhi, India's capital, and has been identified as a counter-magnet city for the National Capital Region to develop as an alternative center of growth to Delhi.

Hisar district District of Haryana in India

Hisar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana, India. Hisar city serves as the district headquarters. The district is also part of Hisar division, which is headed by a commissioner who is employed by the Indian Administrative Service.

Haryana State in northern India

Haryana is one of the 29 states in India, located in northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 November 1966 on linguistic as well as on cultural basis. It is ranked 22nd in terms of area with less than 1.4% of India's land area. Chandigarh is the state capital, Faridabad in National Capital Region is the most populous city of the state and Gurugram is a leading financial hub of NCR with major Fortune 500 companies located in it. Haryana has 6 administrative divisions, 22 districts, 72 sub-divisions, 93 revenue tehsils, 50 sub-tehsils, 140 community development blocks, 154 cities and towns, 6,848 villages and 6222 villages panchayats.

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Location

Blue Bird Lake is close to Hisar Airport on NH-9 in Hisar, Haryana, India. It is close to Deer Park, Hisar and Shatavar Vatika Herbal Park, Hisar, both of which are run by the Forests Department, Haryana of Government of Haryana.

Hisar Airport airport in India

Hisar Airport is a current-public domestic and proposed-international airport, MRO, and aero manufacturing industrial zone spread across 4,194 acres (1,697 ha), serving the National Capital Region Counter Magnet City (NCRCMS) of Hisar in Haryana state of India. Located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north-east of the city center, it is 165 kilometres (103 mi) from Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi and 280 kilometres (170 mi) from the capital's Chandigarh International Airport. To develop this into an international airport the provision of INR 50 crore in 2016-17, INR 50 crore in 2017-18 and INR 120 crore in 2018-19 were made by the Haryana govt.

National Highway 9 (India) national highway in India

National Highway 9 is a National Highway in India in east-west direction. It starts at Malaut in Punjab and ends at Askot in Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand. It passes through the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. After renumbering of all national highways by National Highway Authority of India in 2010, the current NH 9 was formed by merging segments of five separate national highways in 2010; these were Old NH 10, Old NH 24, Old NH 87, Old NH 74 and Old NH 125.

India Country in South Asia

India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Migratory birds

Among approximately 1,800 migratory bird species out of total 10,000 species of birds in the world, nearly 370 species migrate to India due to seasonal changes, including 175 long-distance migration species that use the Central Asian Flyway route, [3] [4] and among those some of these migratory birds species have been sighted nesting here during the winter, [5] [6] many of which are endangered species.

Bird migration movement of birds

Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds. Many species of bird migrate. Migration carries high costs in predation and mortality, including from hunting by humans, and is driven primarily by availability of food. It occurs mainly in the northern hemisphere, where birds are funneled on to specific routes by natural barriers such as the Mediterranean Sea or the Caribbean Sea.

Central Asian Flyway organization

The Central Asian Flyway (CAF), Central Asian-Indian Flyway, or Central Asian-South Asian Flyway is a flyway covering a large continental area of Eurasia between the Arctic Ocean and the Indian Ocean and the associated island chains. The CAF comprises several important migration routes of waterbirds, most of which extend from the northernmost breeding grounds in Siberia to the southernmost non-breeding wintering grounds in West Asia, India, the Maldives and the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The lake is also leased out for the commercial fisheries by Fisheries Department of Government of Haryana. [7]

Fishing industry The economic sector concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products

The fishing industry includes any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products. It is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization as including recreational, subsistence and commercial fishing, and the harvesting, processing, and marketing sectors. The commercial activity is aimed at the delivery of fish and other seafood products for human consumption or as input factors in other industrial processes. Directly or indirectly, the livelihood of over 500 million people in developing countries depends on fisheries and aquaculture.

Government of Haryana supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Haryana

The Government of Haryana, also known as the State Government of Haryana, or locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Haryana and its 22 districts. It consists of an executive, ceremonially led by the Governor of Haryana and otherwise by the Chief Minister, a judiciary, and a legislative branch.

Attractions and facilities

The lake and surrounding wetland and parks are spread across 52 acres. The lake itself is 20 acres and has small islands where migratory birds and other flora and fauna live and nest.

Wetland A land area that is permanently or seasonally saturated with water

A wetland is a distinct ecosystem that is flooded by water, either permanently or seasonally, where oxygen-free processes prevail. The primary factor that distinguishes wetlands from other land forms or water bodies is the characteristic vegetation of aquatic plants, adapted to the unique hydric soil. Wetlands play a number of functions, including water purification, water storage, processing of carbon and other nutrients, stabilization of shorelines, and support of plants and animals. Wetlands are also considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems, serving as home to a wide range of plant and animal life. Whether any individual wetland performs these functions, and the degree to which it performs them, depends on characteristics of that wetland and the lands and waters near it. Methods for rapidly assessing these functions, wetland ecological health, and general wetland condition have been developed in many regions and have contributed to wetland conservation partly by raising public awareness of the functions and the ecosystem services some wetlands provide.

There are boats available for hire, along with safety gear such as life saving flotation jackets and devices. The lake has floating pontoon platforms for visitors and boaters, and ghats for sitting and relaxing. Recreational fishing is permitted with payment of a licensing fee. Landscaped parks, sight-seeing walking trails and jogging tracks, over-water bridges, bush land, children's swings and play area, visitor's car park and toilets, and other amenities are available. There is no entry fee to use these areas. The Blue bird lake also has government-run "Blue Bird Tourist Resort" with rooms, conference halls, restaurant and bar. [8] [9]

Ghat Series of steps leading down to a body of water, particularly a holy river in South Asia

Ghat, a term used in the Indian subcontinent, depending on the context could refer either to a range of stepped-hills with valleys, such as the Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats; or the series of steps leading down to a body of water or wharf, such as a bathing or cremation place along the banks of a river or pond, the Ghats in Varanasi, Dhoby Ghaut or the Aapravasi Ghat. Roads passing through ghats are called Ghat Roads.

Recreational fishing fishing for pleasure or competition

Recreational fishing, also called sport fishing, is fishing for pleasure or competition. It can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is fishing for profit, or subsistence fishing, which is fishing for survival.

Conservation issues

Air, sound and water pollution, lack of water supply and conservation, lack of protected area status and scientific wildlife management plan for wildlife conservation, lack of area development with scientific landscaping and tree planting conducive to safe birds nesting and breeding, stray dogs and cats posing risk to nesting endangered birds, poor hygiene resulting in ongoing risk of avian flu outbreak, etc. remain major issues.

Since there is no agreement between Haryana Tourism that manages the wetland and HLRDC in control of canal that irrigates their farm in the vicinity of wetland, HLRDC stopped the supply of their share of water flowing to Blue bird lake, causing gradual reduction of water levels in the wetland which resulted in death of fishes in 2016. [7]

Over 800 domesticated ducks resident at blue bird lake were culled by the authorities in November 2016 when 9 dead ducks were found that were confirmed to have died due to H5N8 avian influenza virus. [10] [5] [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Title: The Tribune - Hisar Bluebird lake, Published 23 December 2014, Accessed: 26 March 2016
  2. ↑ Blue Bird lake, Haryana Tourism
  3. ↑ Sekercioglu, C.H. (2007). "Conservation ecology: area trumps mobility in fragment bird extinctions". Current Biology. 17 (8): 283–286. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.02.019. PMID   17437705.
  4. ↑ "Pallid harrier spotted in Asola Bhatti Sanctuary as migratory birds arrive in Delhi.", Hindustan Times, 27 Nov 2017.
  5. 1 2 "750 birds culled in Hisar to check avian flu spread.", Times of India, 4 Nov 2016.
  6. ↑ "Vets screen geese, shut Hisar’s Bluebird Lake.", The Tribune.
  7. 1 2 "Blue Bird did not give water for lake, 29 lakhs gave fishery contract.", Dainik Bhaskar, 1 Apr 2017.
  8. ↑ "Blue bird laje.", Haryana Tourism.
  9. ↑ 2008,"Encyclopaedia of Cities and Towns in India.", Volume 1, p318.
  10. ↑ "9 ducks die due to avian flu in Hisar's bird complex as Haryana govt fears breakout of epidemic.", India Today, 6 Nov 2016.
  11. ↑ "Duck deaths at Hisar: Tests confirm first avian flu case.", Times of India, 4 Nov 2016.
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