Kyonekapyin-Tapseik records 160 bird species, including rare ones

The Kyonekapyin-Tapseik Wildlife Conservation area, which is located in Shwe Laung sub-township, Wakema Township, Ayeyawady Region, described that it has recorded 160 bird species, including those which are listed as rare in the world, so people are invited to see and enjoy these birds, according to the Kyonekapyin-Tapseik Wildlife Conservation Group (KTCG).
Local conservation members have regularly conducted a programme to study and record the birds in the area every month. According to the records collected until August 2024, a total of 160 bird species were recorded by the KTCG team.
Bird species found can be divided into three types- indigenous birds or species that breed in Myanmar, birds arriving in the rainy season to lay eggs and hibernating bird species that can only be found in the cold season.
Among them, the world’s rare bird species are also found to be arriving, including cormorants, egret species, watercocks, moorhens, sarus cranes, kingfisher species, common ioras, crows, Cinnyris asiaticus and flowerpeckers, weaverbirds, scaly-breasted munia, sparrow species, magpie robin, red-whiskered bulbul, jerdon’s babbler and wabler species, whose arrival can be seen the whole year to build nests and lay eggs, cuckoo species which come in the rainy season to lay eggs, and black-winged stilt, green sandpiper species, kites and eagles, white-faced wagtail and yellow-breasted bunting, that migrate in the cold season, according to the KTCG.
Therefore, people are invited to visit this bird conservation area to see and record these birds in detail with the help of local tour guides. — MT/ZN