Rendezvous with birds of & around Chandigarh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 24

The India Bird Races, supported by HSBC, organised Chandigarh BirdRace on Sunday. These bird races are dawn-to-dusk events where teams of bird-watching enthusiasts, from beginners to experts, from seven-year-olds to 81-years young, spent the day birding in and around the Chandigarh region.

The teams in Chandigarh covered the areas from Timber Trail to Morni Hills, Chhatbir, Mirzapur dam, Siswan dam, Nepli and Kansal forests and Sukhna Lake.

After a whole day of bird-watching, there was an interactive session where the participants shared their experiences. In Chandigarh, the chief coordinators for this year’s BirdRace was Rima Dhillon.