Hyderabad Bird Atlas to track crow population amid concerns over decline

Usually bird watchers and wildlife photographers tend to ignore capturing the photographs of house crows and would not record its voice since they feel the bird is seen everywhere in day to day life.

The ignorance of studying house crows distribution and behaviour such is that even the most famous Merlin Bird ID mobile app, developed by Cornell Lab of Ornithology, will not help us in identifying the crows based on its



voice. 

The app would need more than 100 focal recording of a particular bird to identify it, but the birdwatchers did not upload 100 records in the app since it was very commonly seen.

However, amid the complaints of its population decline in Hyderabad, the organisers of Hyderabad Bird Atlas (HBA) have decided to focus on its population, habitat and behaviour during the fourth phase of its survey, which would commence on July 4 across the state capital.