Forests echo with summer migratory birds’ calls

Birds travel thousands of miles to Nepal, mainly to breed. Asian koel flies 6,000 miles from Sub-Saharan Africa.

The banks of Danav River along the Bhairahawa-Taulihawa road stretch in Rupandehi district are abuzz with activity as migratory birds arrive to nest. Among them, Chestnut-headed bee-eaters, locally called Katustauke muralichara, are seen digging holes on elevated ground to build their nests.