Assam's state bird, the white winged wood duck, locally called as Deo Hanh or divine bird could be pushed to extinction due to climate change impact and other worsening anthropogenic pressures in the Indian Eastern Himalayan (IEH) region, a study conducted by a team of researchers have warned.
Alarm bells ring for the white-winged wood duck (WWWD). Declared the state bird of Assam in 2003, the on-ground conservation situation of the bird has not improved in recent years. On the contrary, the bird could well go extinct. The white-winged wood duck (Asarcornis scutulata) has been classified as endangered by the International Union for the […]