Brown-headed gulls flock-in as annual visitors
   Date :19-Dec-2023

Brown-headed gulls 
 
 
 
 
 
By Ashish Rajput
 
Flocks of brown-headed gulls migrated from the Himalayan range is centre of attraction for visitors at Gwarighat. Brown headed gulls commonly known as water birds reached the city to scavenge at shallow water of the river Narmada. These attractive birds migrated from around 1200 kilometres from cold high altitude lakes from Himalayan range in Nepal and Uttarakhand. Like most of the gulls, brown-beaded gulls having black tips to primary wing feathers and glittering white feathers are highly gregarious towards winters.
 
According to a senior officer of Zoological Survey of India, Jabalpur informed that these are brown-headed gulls with black beak which have been migrated from water bodies in Himalayan range in search of food during winter season. This specie is survived midst 10 to 15 degree Celsius. Brown-headed gulls are generally migrated from north-eastern part of the country in central India especially during winters from October to March in search of food. Flocks of migrated birds can be easily seen flying over the river Narmada from Tighra Ghat, Jilaharighat, Siddha Ghat, Gwarighat and Khari Ghat while hunting pests into the shallow water.
 
Thousands of devotees who regularly reached for worship of the holy river Narmada and Gurudwara Gwarighat are fascinating with witnessing the flocks of migratory birds but rare of them have information about the specie. Flocking of migratory birds is also a centre of attraction for photographers and nature lovers to take information about unfamiliar birds in the city.