At an altitude of 3,200 meters, in Ladakh’s rugged mountain sweep backdrop, a group of five sets handled it and listened to the ‘click-click’ captured in a recording. A call like insect was proof that the most elusive bird species that they were seeing were there.The visual proof came very soon, allowing July 15, when a cone of long-lasting Bush Warbaler will be seen in a thick in the Suru Valley of Kargil, after 46 years.The last time The Bird (Taddela Major) was also seen in Ladakh in 1979, when a group of Birds of Southampton University was on the tour of Chronicle Avian Faana (1977–80). Between 1979 and now, another vision of the Bush warbler was documented when Ornithologist James Eaton saw it in 2023 in the Nalatar Valley in Gilgitabaltistan.Of V Birds – The current campaign was planned by Harish Thangraj, Lieutenant General Bhupesh Goyal, Manjula Desai, Rigzin Nubu and Irfan Jilani.Team leader Thangraj told times of India The group has “years and years of experience that is the experience of seeing birds” and “what we are now seeing are ‘lost birds’ that were seen decades ago, but never seen since then”.This February, the group launched another campaign in search of the bird, but failed to spot it. Thangraj said, “We discovered between 2,400 meters and 2,800 meters in gerase and tular valleys.After unsuccessful attempts, the group carried on research forward and came in contact with Eaton. It was the Malaysian-based American Ornithologist, who drove him on the right path-in this case, near The Aldes, surrounded by Roomx and Gozberry bushes in the cone in Suru. Thangraj told TOI, “The bird was found in a willow.At a distance of 3,200 meters, it is also the most recorded height on which the bird has been seen. Classy fi Ed, long -term build Bush Warblikes, was usually seen in Ladakh and Gilgitallia until the 1930s, as a ‘close threat’ for the conservation of nature by the International Union. In decades, the birding campaign was rare. In 2015, Eaton wrote, Bedar Shashank Dalvi saw two warsblalers in Suru, but it was very brief for him to take a picture. Thangraj said, “The expansion of joint settlements with climate change can push birds to be higher,” Thangraj said.Pankaj Gupta, a member of the Delhi Bird Society, who was not part of the campaign, stated that the bird’s “redistribution” is “nothing less than exception”. Gupta said, “It reminds us how much is hidden in our fragmented scenarios, and how important it is to protect these last remaining pockets of the forest.”
