Parvati Arga Bird Sanctuary Bar-headed goose "(Anser indicus)", Little grebe "(Tachybaptus ruficollis)", Eurasian wigeon "(Mareca penelope)", Mallard "(Anas platyrhynchos)", Red-crested pochard "(Netta rufina)", Tufted duck "(Aythya fuligula)," Knob-billed duck "(Sarkidiornis melanotos)", Ruddy shelduck "(Tadorna ferruginea)", Cotton pygmy-goose "(Nettapus coromandelianus)," Little cormorant "(Microcarbo niger)", Great cormorant "(Phalacrocorax carbo)," Common moorhen "(Gallinula chloropus)," Cattle egret "(Bubulcus ibis)", Intermediate egret "(Ardea intermedia)", Asian openbill "(Anastomus oscitans)", and Grey-headed swamphen "(Porphyrio poliocephalus)". Parvati Arga was declared a bird sanctuary on 23 May 1990. Prior to that it was under the fisheries department. Parvati Arga Bird Sanctuary Parvati Arga Bird Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary in Gonda district of
The Golden Bird The Golden Bird "The Golden Bird" is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, number 57, about the pursuit of a golden bird by a gardener's three sons. A French version, collected by Paul Sébillot in "Littérature orale de la Haute-Bretagne", is called "Le Merle d'or" (The Golden Blackbird). Andrew Lang included that variant in "The Green Fairy Book" (1892). It is Aarne-Thompson folktale type 550, "The Golden Bird", a Supernatural Helper. Other tales of this type include "The Bird 'Grip'", "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener", "Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf", "How Ian Direach got the