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
What Bird is That? all-time best seller in Australian natural history and is still in print today. While sales and stature of Cayley’s original collection continued to grow, the prolific artist and ornothologist Cayley was working on a much more ambitious project – his so-called “big bird book”. From about 1918, he was creating illustrations of subspecies, plumage stages and eggs (now lost) of all known Australian birds. The project was incomplete at the time of his death in 1950, although the illustrations were all but finished. The ornithologist Terence Lindsey revived Cayley’s plans in the 1980s, creating the last and most significant revision