Hokersar is really the heaven of migratory birds because tens of thousands of water fowls chose to visit this wetland or we can say that this wetland is always first priority of these guest birds which come from different parts of the world to visit valley during winters. Hokersar wetland which is some 10 Kilometers away from Srinagar, houses near about six lac migratory birds and the census report which was published some days back shows that about of 567884birds comprising 33 species, 81% migratory birds visit this wetland. This is the hard labour of the concern warden and his team that the guest birds mostly gadwalls, northern pintail, comman teal, Eurasion coot, geese and northern shoveler are enjoying their sojourn visit smoothly. in this heaven. Pertinently, the Asian water bird census was conducted in Jammu and Kashmir recently by Indian Bird conversation Network in collaboration with Bombay natural History society and it was for the first time in the history of Jammu and Kashmir that this type of census was done .As per the experts conducting this census helps to know the status of the wetlands and resident as well as the migratory waterfowls. Kashmir Life Photographer Bilal Bahadur spent a day in this important water body and try to capture the flights of these water birds through his lens
Migratory birds crowd a marsh at the Hokersar wetlands kashmir
Gusts-taking-siesta- in Hokersar wetland
Gusts-taking-siesta- in Hokersar wetland
Migratory Birds Flying-high-in Hokersar wetland
Migratory Birds Flying-high-in Hokersar wetland
Migratory Birds Flying-high-in Hokersar wetland
Migratory Birds Flying-high-in Hokersar wetland
Migratory Birds Flying-high-in Hokersar wetland
Migratory Birds Flying-high-in Hokersar wetland
Migratory Birds Flying-high-in Hokersar wetland
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