{"id":55778,"date":"2026-01-07T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/?p=55778"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:38:17","slug":"birding-community-engagement-and-boat-racing-mark-day-2-of-6th-national-chilika-bird-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2026\/01\/07\/birding-community-engagement-and-boat-racing-mark-day-2-of-6th-national-chilika-bird-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding, Community Engagement and Boat Racing Mark Day-2 of 6th National Chilika Bird Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong> Mangalajodi and Nalabana Host Birding Experiences; Boat Race Heats Up at Barkul<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Conservation, Culture and Competition Converge at Chilika on Day-2<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bhubaneswar, 7\/1\/2026 ( Odisha Samachar\/ Rajat Mohapatra )-The second day of the 6th National Chilika Bird Festival, featured guided birdwatching programmes, community engagement activities and traditional boat racing, reinforcing Odisha\u2019s conservation-led tourism model. The festival is being jointly organised by the Department of Tourism and the Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Government of Odisha.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55779 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-1-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-1.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Birding trails were conducted at Mangalajodi and Nalabana Bird Sanctuary, with participation from experts, photographers, students and nature enthusiasts, alongside a Bird Race facilitated by the eBird team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At OTDC Barkul, the Chilika Country Boat Race drew wide attention with 74 teams competing, of which 42 teams qualified for the semi-finals and finals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Day-3 will feature further birding activities, capacity-building sessions for boatmen, expert panel discussions and cultural performances including Odissi dance and an award ceremony.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55783 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-5-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-5-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-5.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55782 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-4-300x201.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-4-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-4-110x75.jpeg 110w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-4.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55780 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-3-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BF-3.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Mangalajodi and Nalabana Host Birding Experiences; Boat Race Heats Up at Barkul Conservation, Culture and Competition Converge at Chilika on Day-2 \u00a0 Bhubaneswar, 7\/1\/2026 ( Odisha Samachar\/ Rajat Mohapatra )-The second day of the 6th National Chilika Bird Festival, featured guided birdwatching programmes, community engagement activities and traditional boat racing, reinforcing Odisha\u2019s conservation-led tourism &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55784,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55778\/revisions\/55784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}