Top Birding Hot Spots in Pakistan
Punjab
Updated: 02/19/2006
Information by Birdwatcher's Club of
Pakistan (BCP)
The province of Punjab has its name
from the fact that in it lie 5 major rivers. From this fact one can
easily imagine the biodiversity it supports. Punjab province houses
some of the most beautiful sites of the sub-continent. For example it
is home to a part of the Murree Hill Range, also known as the "Queen
of hills". Also its Salt Range is world famous for the beautiful hilly
terrain and biodiversity. Similarly, it houses chains of lakes like
Uchchali, Khabbaki, Kallar kahar, Nammal and Lal Sohanra. Also worth
mentioning are the Cholistan and Thal deserts.
This variety of landscape and
plantation provides an ideal habitat for a number of species of
Restricted Range in Pakistan and throughout the world. Some birds
worth mentioning are Painted Sandgrouse, Brown Rock Chat, Brown
Waterhen, Indian Courser, Sind Sparrow, Sind Woodpecker, Orange
Bullfinch and the Rufous fronted and Rufous vented Prinias.
The variety of habitat also supports a
great number of threatened and endangered species. Some worth
mentioning are White rumped vulture, Greater Spotted Eagle, Cinereous
Vulture, Indian Skimmer, Black bellied Tern, Ferruginous Pochard etc.
Apart from these birds, for naturalists
other things worth mentioning here include the rare, endangered and
endemic Punjab Urial and Indus River Dolphin.
There are a number of birding sited
that have been selected below. Information is provided about the
variety of bird species that can be seen there. Any other information
regarding them can be acquired by contacting us at
[email protected].
Please choose a birding site below:
a. Salt Range
(New)
b. Potohar Plateau
(New)
c. Dera Ghazi Khan
(New)
d. Nammal Lake
(New)
e. Pirawala forest plantation
f. Lal Soharna National Park
g. Murree Hill Range
(New)
h. Taunsa
Barrage
(New)
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