{"id":9241,"date":"2025-02-03T03:24:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=9241"},"modified":"2025-02-03T03:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:24:54","slug":"moeyungyi-sanctuary-hosts-more-than-29000-wintering-birds-from-132-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=9241","title":{"rendered":"Moeyungyi Sanctuary hosts more than 29,000 wintering birds from 132 species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">29 January 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Daw Thin Thin Yu, the sanctuary&#8217;s warden, over 29,000 birds from 132 species arrived at the Moeyungyi Wetland Wildlife Sanctuary in Bago Region between October 2024 and January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nine different migration routes take birds from the North Pole to their wintering grounds in southern regions. Between late October and March, wintering birds from the Asia-Australian, Middle Asian, and West Asia-East Africa flyways arrive in Myanmar. Some years, they don&#8217;t return to breeding grounds until April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many wintering birds at The 25,600-acre Moeyungyi Lake this year, including common grebes, blue wagtails, common coots, red-wattled lapwings, grey herons, wild ducks, Pacific golden plovers, purple swamphens, red jays, river terns, whistling ducks, and common curlews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#Moeyungyi #Sanctuary #wintering_birds #Myanmar #mtnews<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/photo_2025-01-29_21-15-51.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/photo_2025-01-29_21-15-51.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/photo_2025-01-29_21-15-51-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/photo_2025-01-29_21-15-51-768x637.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 January 2025 According to Daw Thin Thin Yu, the sanctuary&#8217;s warden, over 29,000 birds from 132 species<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-and-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9244,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions\/9244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}