{"id":67148,"date":"2020-06-28T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67148"},"modified":"2020-06-25T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T10:59:01","slug":"migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Migratory birds flock to Sindh wetlands as lockdown keeps hunters, catchers away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karachi: Migratory birds were recently seen to flock in greater numbers to the provincial wetlands; causing experts to link their movement to the ongoing anti-COVID-19 lockdown restrictions that have limited the mobility of local hunters and bird catchers, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/margalla-hills-national-park-reports-heightened-wildlife-activity-amid-corona-lockdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Margalla Hills National Park reports heightened wildlife activity amid corona lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-wildlife-department-sets-wild-birds-free.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh Wildlife Department<\/a>\u2019s provincial conservator Javed Ahmed Mahar highlighted that as per a survey conducted earlier this year, at least 741,042 birds have landed in the province \u2013 which is greater when compared with 248,105 birds witnessed in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maher also said that the provincial authorities have not recorded any criminal wildlife-related activity since the lockdown was imposed and that has helped settle these birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-first-wildlife-museum-swd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh\u2019s first wildlife museum inaugurated<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reportedly, 40% of the provincial wetlands are surveyed each year to map the migratory patterns and number of birds. These migrating birds \u2013 including mallards, pelicans, cranes and waders \u2013 make a temporary stop in Pakistan on their way to and from Siberia. There are over 33 wildlife sanctuaries and one national park in Sindh that houses over 300 bird species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Migratory birds were recently seen to flock in greater numbers to the provincial wetlands; causing experts to link their movement to the ongoing anti-COVID-19 lockdown restrictions that have limited the mobility of local hunters and bird catchers, according to news sources. Read: Margalla Hills National Park reports heightened wildlife activity amid corona lockdown Sindh Wildlife Department\u2019s provincial conservator Javed Ahmed Mahar highlighted that as per a survey conducted earlier this year, at least 741,042 birds have landed in the province \u2013 which is greater when compared with 248,105 birds witnessed in 2019. Maher also said that the provincial authorities have not recorded any criminal wildlife-related activity since the lockdown was imposed and that has helped settle these birds. Read: Sindh\u2019s first wildlife museum inaugurated Reportedly, 40% of the provincial wetlands are surveyed each year to map the migratory patterns and number of birds. These migrating birds \u2013 including mallards, pelicans, cranes and waders \u2013 make a temporary stop in Pakistan on their way to and from Siberia. There are over 33 wildlife sanctuaries and one national park in Sindh that houses over 300 bird species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":60851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[32817,17471,31549],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-67148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-migratory-birds-flock-to-sindh-wetlands","tag-sindh-wildlife","tag-sindh-wildlife-department-swd","cat-15181-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Migratory birds flock to Sindh wetlands amid lockdown - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Migratory birds are flocking in greater numbers to Sindh wetlands; due to lockdown restrictions that have limited the mobility of local hunters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Migratory birds flock to Sindh wetlands amid lockdown - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Migratory birds are flocking in greater numbers to Sindh wetlands; due to lockdown restrictions that have limited the mobility of local hunters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-28T05:36:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SWD.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Hazafa Hasan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Hazafa Hasan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Migratory birds flock to Sindh wetlands amid lockdown - Zameen News","description":"Migratory birds are flocking in greater numbers to Sindh wetlands; due to lockdown restrictions that have limited the mobility of local hunters","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Migratory birds flock to Sindh wetlands amid lockdown - Zameen News","og_description":"Migratory birds are flocking in greater numbers to Sindh wetlands; due to lockdown restrictions that have limited the mobility of local hunters","og_url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html","og_site_name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","article_published_time":"2020-06-28T05:36:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1170,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SWD.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Hazafa Hasan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_site":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Hazafa Hasan","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html"},"author":{"name":"Hazafa Hasan","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/02ecabbaa38c1bc1c986aa3d4e04a581"},"headline":"Migratory birds flock to Sindh wetlands as lockdown keeps hunters, catchers away","datePublished":"2020-06-28T05:36:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html"},"wordCount":191,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SWD.png","keywords":["Migratory birds flock to Sindh wetlands","Sindh Wildlife","Sindh Wildlife Department (SWD)"],"articleSection":["Environment"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html","name":"Migratory birds flock to Sindh wetlands amid lockdown - Zameen News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SWD.png","datePublished":"2020-06-28T05:36:00+00:00","description":"Migratory birds are flocking in greater numbers to Sindh wetlands; due to lockdown restrictions that have limited the mobility of local hunters","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SWD.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SWD.png","width":1170,"height":400,"caption":"Sindh Wildlife Department"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/migratory-birds-in-sindh-wetlands-lockdown-keeps-hunters-catchers-away.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Migratory birds flock to Sindh wetlands as lockdown keeps hunters, catchers away"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Zameen.com","alternateName":"Zameen","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","width":600,"height":300,"caption":"Zameen.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","https:\/\/x.com\/ZameenProperty","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zameenpk\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/02ecabbaa38c1bc1c986aa3d4e04a581","name":"Hazafa Hasan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Avatar-Icon-96x96.jpg","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Avatar-Icon-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Avatar-Icon-96x96.jpg","caption":"Hazafa Hasan"},"description":"Hazafa reveres the art of writing and has been turned into a property enthusiast by profession. Her daily survival kit includes; tea, coffee, keyboard and paperbacks.","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/author\/hazafa"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67154,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148\/revisions\/67154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67148"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=67148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}