✅ Why in News: in the Asian Waterbird Census has found lower waterbird species diversity at East Delhi’s Sanjay Lake when compared to the count from the past three years.
✅ It is an integral part of the global waterbird monitoring programme, the International Waterbird Census (IWC), coordinated by Wetlands International.
✅ AWC is held in the month of January every year.
✅ The major regions covered under AWC are Southeast Asia, Australasia, East Asian – Australasian Flyway, region between Afghanistan and Japan.
✅ It was initiated in 1987 in the Indian subcontinent.
✅ In India AWC is jointly coordinated by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and Wetlands International.
✅During the census, the volunteers visit the wetlands and count the waterbirds.
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