Ever Heard Of A Floating Bird Nest? See This!
It’s not actually a bird nest but a platform for birds to make several nests. Sea Explorers Associate Pvt Ltd, a private company in the Maldives, build this platform with grant from United Nation’s GEF programme and gave it to Dhaandhoo school to maintain and monitor. The platform is anchored at Dhaandhoo island.
It’s not the sea level rise that is endangering the sea bird species yet, but their habitats are increasingly taken over by humans for industrial purposes and the birds have no land to breed. Thanks to the Sea Explorers and UN’s GEF program who came up with this ingenious solution. But the question is, can the birds read the name board and know it was made for them? We will have to wait and see, anyway the terns breed seasonally, so we will have to wait for the season to come.
Sea Explorers say the idea is not only to provide birds a nesting ground but also to rise awareness among the public that conservation is important and without it the lovely black and white terns would simply be not able to maintain its population.
Terns are a common sea bird species found across Maldives, they usually live on uninhabited islands and sandbanks. They don’t find local residential islands safe enough to live or may be it is not very enjoyable for them.
The attractive and beautiful birds were popular among locals as pet bird but it is not a protect species and it is illegal to catch them.
White terns like to have a lot of privacy and freedom, they don’t like people visit their habitat. If you go too close they would often fly to you and circle over you as if telling you to go away. It is said that if you go close to their nests they would actually come and bite your hair.
White terns are known to be very romantic. When it was not protected, people would rise babies and when they grow to maturity each bird would have its partner. If you release one from cage the bird would not leave and fly away and very often the partner bird would go out to hunt and bring catch for the other.
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