Kerala Bird Atlas (KBA)
Kerala Bird Atlas (KBA), the first-of-its-kind State-level bird atlas in India,
has created solid baseline data about the distribution and abundance of bird species across all major habitats.
giving an impetus to futuristic studies. It is being conducted as a citizen science-driven exercise with the participation of over 1,000 volunteers of the birdwatching community KBA has been prepared based on systematic surveys held twice over 60 days a year.
during the wet (July to September) and dry (January to March) seasons between 2015 and 2020.
KBA accounted for nearly three lakh records of 361 species, including 94 very rare species, 103 rare species, 110 common species, 44 very common species, and 10 most abundant species.
“KBA offers authentic, consistent and comparable data through random sampling from the geographical terrain split into nearly 4000 grids.
We are in the process of bringing out papers on interesting trends based on a deep scientific analysis of solid data besides making futuristic predictions.
It would be exciting to undertake a similar exercise between 2025 and 2030 giving an insight into the changes in the decade since the first KBA,”
one of the State level coordinators of KBA.
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
- Kerala Capital Thiruvananthapuram;
- Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan;
- Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
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