13-12-2004

Pakistan Receives Annual Houbara Migration

via jang.com.pk

The Hubara Bustard population, a migratory bird that comes to Pakistan from the freezing Central Asian States during November-December, have arrived here in flocks and their returning process would commence from February to end of March.

As many as 20,000 to 25,000 Hubara populations have migrated to Pakistan every year, he said. The distance covered by these migratory birds is measured about to 5,5O0-km as it comes very quickly taking only three to five days over a height of 4,700 meters to Pakistan from Siberia to Chitral, Nowshera, D I Khan, D G Khan, Cholistan, Tharparker and Nag Valley in Balochistan and onward to Bharatpur…