Rare migratory bird sighted in Jharkhand's Sahibganj bird sanctuary

Sahibganj, Dec 11 (PTI) A rare migratory bird, Pallas’s Gull, also called the Great Black-headed Gull, has been sighted in Udhwa Bird Sanctuary in Jharkhand’s Sahibganj district after nearly a decade, officials said on Thursday.

The bird was noticed on Wednesday evening, the official said.

“A juvenile Pallas’s Gull (biological name Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus) was noticed by bird watchers on Wednesday evening at the Udhwa Bird Sanctuary, which is the state’s only Ramsar site and eastern India’s only bird sanctuary," Sahibganj, Divisional Forest Officer, Prabal Garg told PTI.

“It is a rare migratory bird for the wetland and was last noticed during the bird census in 2015. Its return after almost a decade is a positive sign for the biodiversity of the bird sanctuary," the forest official clai