Soor Sarovar, also known as Keetham Lake, in Uttar Pradesh's Agra, has seen a fall in the number of birds migrating to the Ramsar site this winter.According to experts this could be due to a 'warm and late winter', and a shortfall in the .
The census revealed that there was a fall both in number of species and total number of birds at this recently identified wetland in the border area of Agra and Mathura . The decline was attributed to global climate change impact, lesser monsoon rainfall and later winter.
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