Asian Waterbird Census (AWC)

🔆Asian Waterbird Census (AWC)

 

✅ 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.