“I’ve only seen it in the forest,” says Gulati. It had not been reported in the city in 2019 or before the lockdown in 2020. “People saw some species which are typically rare.”įor instance, the black-rumped flameback, a woodpecker, was frequently spotted in Bengaluru during the lockdown. It’s not just that people saw more crows, pigeons or mynas, which are common in India, says Gulati. It was in the second and third week after the lockdown that people started seeing a lot more species - not in the first week, says Gulati, attributing the spike to birds flocking to cities than to more people tuning into nature. The effect was evident in 20 densely populated cities, including Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Puducherry.įrom the dataset of more than a million bird sightings, Gulati eliminated data from new users who had signed up on eBird during the lockdown for accurate pre- and post-lockdown comparisons. The 16% spike in species diversity was observed during stationary trips, meaning people saw more birds in their urban neighbourhoods during the lockdown. Gulati explains that this was because people were no longer travelling to birding hotspots. Regardless of the type of birding session, the total number of species observed reduced during the lockdown. The number of eBird users who were birding from the same spot rose the day after lockdown began. This was reflected in the data he analysed. “We’d heard that there was a balcony birding phenomenon,” says Sumeet Gulati, professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. A trip can be stationary, during which a user watches and identifies birds from the same spot, or travelling, in which a user goes from point A to B in search of birds.ĭuring the lockdown, people took to watching birds from their homes. To determine whether this was due to wildlife returning to urban habitats in the absence of human activity, or a result of people paying more attention to nature, scientists turned to birds.ĭata from the citizen science platform, eBird, where observers log sightings, showed a 16% rise in the number of species spotted per birding ‘trip’ during March to April 2020, compared with the same period in 2019.
#Black rumped flameback series#
In this particular series will cover different types of Birds, animals and fruits also from around the globe.Wild animals were frequently reported in cities across India within weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown from March 25, 2020.
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It is developed by assembling different parts of the bird in different layers for giving it a three dimensional effect It's a Miniature Paper cut artwork finely hand cut on 200 GSM paper and hand painted with watercolors, *To take them home click the link below to our Etsy shop, It is the only golden-backed woodpecker with a black throat and black rump.
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It has a characteristic rattling-whinnying call and an undulating flight. It is one of the few woodpeckers that are seen in urban areas. The black-rumped flameback (Dinopium benghalense), also known as the lesser golden-backed woodpecker or lesser goldenback, is a woodpecker found widely distributed in the Indian subcontinent. The black-rumped flameback pecking on a tree ? with his little one peeping out of his home.