Jagadishpur lake receives fewer migratory birds

Human encroachment of the lake area is a major factor behind the decline in the number, ornithologists say.

The onset of the winter season usually sees the arrival of migratory birds in Jagadishpur Lake, a Ramsar wetland site in Kapilvastu, in large numbers. However, the number of migratory birds making their way toward the lake from the mountainous regions, some from as far as Siberia, has decreased in the last two years, according to ornithologists.