08 Nov,2023
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The white-winged wood duck is popularly known as Deo-Hah in the state of Assam because of its ghostly calls.
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The white-winged wood duck is popularly known as Deo-Hah in the state of Assam because of its ghostly calls.
Declared as the state bird of Assam in 2003, sadly its conservation situation has not improved in recent years.
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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed the white-winged wood duck (Asarcornis scutulata) as endangered since 1994.
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A recent study to assess the impacts of climate change and the potential distribution of the white-winged wood duck in the Indian Eastern Himalayan (IEH) region for the 2050s and 2070s revealed that the species would lose 436.61 square kilometres of highly potential habitat by 2070.
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The researchers discovered that changes in precipitation patterns during the wettest months (June to September), combined with a decrease in precipitation during the warmest quarter (October to December), would lead to further habitat loss.
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Furthermore, by 2070, the temperature rise would result in the extinction of many potential habitats in Tripura and Nagaland.
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