DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, CCT, ORGANIZED AN INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO BIRD PARK, CHANDIGARH

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, CCT, ORGANIZED AN INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO BIRD PARK, CHANDIGARH

Saturday, 24th Feb 2023: An exposure tour for the students of Department Of Biotechnology, CCT, Landran was organized to Bird park at Chandigarh. 40 Students of B.Sc. Biotechnology Semester 2 accompanied by two faculty members Dr. Sonica Sondhi and Ms. Shelly Kataria visited the bird park. The main aim of the visit was to familiarize the students about great diversity of flora and fauna. The Department of Forest & Wildlife, UT Chandigarh has developed Chandigarh Bird Park at Nagar Van behind Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh for creating awareness among general public towards bird conservation especially the young minds on nature education and conservation. The Park have been created for the exotic birds which are commonly bred in India. The bird park is surrounded by thousands of plants of varying canopies, which gives an ideal habitat, food and shelter for these birds so that they can freely fly and breed. This structure is the tallest structure of the country in Aviary domain. The Chandigarh Bird Park has different exotic bird species including Aquatic, Terrestrial and Tamed. Main attractions of this Park were African Love Birds, Budgerigars, White Swan, Black Swan, Wood duck, Golden Pheasant, Yellow Golden Pheasant, Green Wing Macaw, Dun Conures, African Grey Parrot, Finches and Melanistic Pheasant. Overall, this industrial trip filled the students with great zeal and enthusiasm towards environment conservation.