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Rare White-Bellied Heron Spotted in Arunachal Pradesh
01/05/2021
File photo of the white-bellied heron. Photo: By Mahesh Iyer – Own work Photo taken at Pho Chu/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
Itanagar: The white-bellied heron, a rare and elusive bird, was spotted at Walong in the Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh, officials said on Saturday.
Walong is around 557 kilometres from the state capital.
The bird was spotted and photographed by divisional forest officer (DFO) of Anjaw Santosh Kumar Reddy, range forest officer Nosing Pul and scientist Dekbin Yonggam earlier this month.
The white-bellied heron is categorised as ‘critically endangered’ in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red Data Book and is listed in Schedule IV in the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. ....

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