{"id":1761,"date":"2011-11-30T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:54:42","slug":"most-abundant-winter-migrant-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/most-abundant-winter-migrant-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Most abundant winter migrant to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article, in The Hindu, titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/article2674393.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Migratory birds declining, government monitoring habitat<\/a>&#8220;, describes Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan&#8217;s reply to a query in the Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>There are various interesting tidbits in the article, including this statement, presumably taken from the ZSI Handbook that is mentioned in the previous paragraph in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The most abundant winter migrants to the Indian subcontinent are ducks and geese. Both constitute about 85 per cent of the population.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think? Which species is likely (in your estimation) to be the most abundant winter visitor to India? Do write your answers in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do <strong>you<\/strong> think is the most abundant species? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/most-abundant-winter-migrant-to-india\/\">Tell us here<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-migration","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.migrantwatch.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}