Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

I am new to bird watching and I am glad to say I am enjoying it. In the last two months, I have come across more than 40 species of avian diversity. From the smallest of hummingbirds to the biggest, the Cormorants; the avian world is beautiful and beyond any comparisons. In recent times,  I am very fond of two birds; sparrows as a whole and a common mynah particularly the one I had recently discovered that had a deformed upper mandible and I named him “Machindra”. A couple of days back, we observed World Sparrow Day at Chisopani JHS, where I am a primary school teacher. The programme was a successful one and we saw large numbers of students participating at the event. From a bird hunter to surrendering their catapults was itself an achievement of the event. There were students who had been hunting birds in the wild for more than three years.  To hear those students saying that they were wrong in doing so and they will in near future protect those harmless birds tell us the ...