Hen lovers from Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar have joined fingers below a mission — Ahmedabad Metropolis Hen Atlas (ACBA) — to arrange Hen Atlas of Ahmedabad to review the various chook species together with their distribution and abundance throughout town. This would be the first mission below which a chook atlas might be ready for any metropolis of Gujarat.
The mission has been initiated by Ahmedabad College in collaboration with the Hen Conservation Society, Gujarat (BCSG). It’s a long-term, not-for-profit and volunteer-driven initiative that has been joined by round 200 volunteers.
Devvratsinh Mori, an ornithologist and coordinator for the mission from Ahmedabad College, who can be a member of Gujarat State Board for Wildlife, mentioned that they’ve been engaged on the mission for the previous one yr. After making ready the protocol for the mission, Mori mentioned, it’ll now start on floor with discipline surveys from Saturday.
“As per the protocol determined, we’re going to cowl the 400 sq. km space of Ahmedabad metropolis inside Ahmedabad Municipal Company limits. Primarily based on the variety of certified volunteers that we’ve received, it has been determined to cowl 33% of town whereas dividing town into 61 grids measuring 3×3 sq. km to facilitate the chook surveys. Every grid is subdivided into 9 sub-cells, every protecting an space of 1×1 sq km,” mentioned Mori.
Based on Mori, in complete, 22 groups of volunteers have been shaped and every group additionally has a coordinator who’s a senior professional chook fanatic. The mission has been technically supported by Hen Depend India — an off-the-cuff partnership of organisations and teams working in direction of rising information about birds, and e-Hen — a web based information depository of birds worldwide.
“The sphere visits might be achieved in winters and summers to trace seasonal actions of the birds. Accordingly, the primary set of visits will happen in December and January whereas the summer season visits might be made in Might and June. The volunteers will feed their checklists on e-Hen. And after the visits, the info might be studied after which a analysis paper might be revealed with the Hen Atlas of Ahmedabad metropolis,” Mori mentioned.
Professor Shomen Mukherjee, who teaches on the Ahmedabad College, can be related to the mission.
Mukherjee mentioned, “Ahmedabad would be the first metropolis in Gujarat to have its chook atlas. The cities of Mysuru and Coimbatore have their chook atlases. Complete Kerala state has its chook atlas. Pune metropolis has additionally began a mission to have its chook atlas. ”
Speaking in regards to the mission and its significance, BCSG secretary Bakul Trivedi mentioned, “By way of such a (formal) examine, we will perceive the variety and abundance of birds within the metropolis.”
