Visit to Pong dam

Pong dam  lake is  300 sq km of man made wet land.It is located in Kangra District of Himachal pradesh.It also enjoy the status of Ramser Site.Every year hundred of migratory birds visit this wonderful lake.This year Team from GHNP got chance to participate in annual  bird count.It was a unique experience.A well designed protocol had been developed to collect scientific data.Whole area was divided into number of section and each section was assigned to team of five to six members.All team memeber started count at same time and recorded the number of birds sighted.At the end of day all teams put all data in one sheet and data was analysed .The same exercise was repeated next day to ge replication.Second day the location of teams was changed to avoid biasness.Our team visited deep waters upto rancer Island.We could locate tufted ducks,grebes,great cormorant,little cormorant,River terns,gulls and group of Bar headed geese.This year it is estmated that arround 36000 bar headed geese visited pong dam.

Really a place which every bird watcher must visit ......

Visit to pong dam for bird count

Pong dam lake is 300 sq  man mad lake located in Kangara district of Himachal Pradesh.It is declared as wild life sanctuary under wildlife protection act and has been recoganised as Ramser site.GHNP team participated in world count.The whole  wet land has been divided into number of section and each teamof six member started direct count of birds in their alloted section at same time in the morning and collected data which was analysed in the base station.Our team was into deep water.We could spot,tufted ducks,Gerbs,Little and great cormorants,Gerbs and arround 700 bar headed geese ove rancer iland.A iland in pong Dam lake.This time the total count of Bar headed geese had gone upto 36000

It is a place which should be in the list of MUST SEEN category of every bird watcher.....