SRINAGAR: A riot of colour and cackle has returned to the wetland reserves of Jammu & Kashmir with the first arrivals of thousands of migratory birds from far off lands this year. Migratory birds from Siberia, China, the Philippines, Eastern Europe and other areas arrive here every year to spend winter months in the Kashmir Valley to ward off the extreme cold of their summer homes. "We start receiving the first flights of the avian visitors in the first week of October. The arrivals continue till February," Imtiyaz Lone, the Wetland Warden of Kashmir, told IANS. "For hundreds of years, these birds have been keeping their annual tryst with the valley. "Following the season's change from...
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