By : odishavisit
Chilika Lake is a salty water tidal pond, spread over the Puri, Khurda and Ganjam areas of Odisha state on the east shoreline of India, at the mouth of the Daya River, streaming into the Bay of Bengal, covering a space of more than 1,100 km2.
It is the biggest wintering ground for transient birds on the Indian sub-landmass. The lake is home to different bargained kinds of plants and animals.
The lake is an organic framework with gigantic fishery resources. It upholds more than 150,000 fisher–individuals living in 132 towns on the shore and islands.
he lagoon has in excess of 160 kinds of birds in the apex transient season. Birds from to the extent the Caspian Sea, Lake Baikal, Aral Sea and other distant pieces of Russia, Kirghiz steppes of Kazakhstan, Central and southeast Asia, Ladakh and Himalayas come here.
These birds travel significant stretches; some of them potentially travel upto 12,000 km, to arrive at Chilika Lake.
In 1981, Chilika Lake was assigned the principal Indian wetland of worldwide significance under the Ramsar Convention.