Dear all, Yesterday 12.10.14 we went to Rajarhat wetland in North 24-Parganas, Kolkata outskirts, West Bengal. We stayed there from 6 a.m. to 5.05 p.m. and found at least 85 species of birds such as : Lesser Whistling Duck 8 Cotton Pygmy-goose 1 Little Grebe 15 Asian Openbill 50 Cinnamon Bittern 2 Black-crowned Night Heron 2 Indian Pond Heron 20 Cattle Egret 50 Great Egret 2 Little Cormorant 10 Indian Cormorant 1 Black Kite 8 Black-winged Kite 1 Indian Spotted Eagle 1 Long-legged Buzzard, winter visitor 1 Bronze-winged Jacana 2 Pheasant-tailed Jacana 2 White-breasted Waterhen 1 Watercock (call) 2 Common Moorhen 5 Grey-headed Lapwing, winter visitor 1 Red-wattled Lapwing 15 Greater Painted Snipe 2 Unidentified Snipe, winter visitor 8 Common Sandpiper, winter visitor 1 Unidentified Sandpiper, winter visitor 15 Common Redshank, winter visitor 8 Common Greenshank, winter visitor 4 Spotted Dove 50 Eurasian Collared Dove 15 Yellow-footed Green Pigeon 4 Common Pigeon 30 Rose-ringed Parakeet 5 Jacobin Cuckoo, monsoon visitor 2 Eurasian Cuckoo, monsoon visitor 1 Common Hawk Cuckoo 4 Asian Koel 2 Greater Coucal 1 Little Swift 4 Asian Palm Swift 30 Common Hoopoe, winter visitor 4 Indian Roller 2 Common Kingfisher 2 White-throated Kingfisher 6 Green Bee-eater 5 Blue-throated Barbet 2 Lineated Barbet 1 Eurasian Wryneck 2 Lesser Goldenback 3 Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker 2 Ashy Woodswallow 2 Brown Shrike, winter visitor 12 Long-tailed Shrike 8 Black Drongo 20 Black-hooded Oriole 1 Rufous Treepie 1 House Crow 100 Eastern Jungle Crow 12 Barn Swallow, winter visiter 15 Red-rumped Swallow, winter visitor 1 Bengal Bushlark 30 Oriental Skylark 40 Ashy-crowned Sparrow Lark 10 Red-vented Bulbul 25 Plain Prinia 12 Zitting Cisticola 5 Common Tailorbird 2 Clamorous Reed Warbler, winter visitor 1 Common Myna 30 Jungle Myna 10 Asian Pied Starling 40 Chestnut-tailed Starling 4 Oriental Magpie Robin 1 Siberian Stonechat, winter visitor 2 House Sparrow 100 Baya Weaver and Black-breasted Weaver 100 Indian Silverbill 5 Tricolored Munia 15 Red Avadavat 10 Scaly-breasted Munia 35 White Wagtail, winter visitor 50 Eastern Yellow Wagtail, winter visitor 5 Paddyfield Pipit 100 Total number of bird-species seen : at least 85 (eighty five). Weather : Mainly cloudy. Some times clear sky. We experienced two brief spells of drizzle. Remarks : Bird activity was excellent. Trip was very successful. Participants : Me 2. Animesh Manna 3. Abhijit Das (Raja) 4. Abhishek Das (Riju) 5. Sulata Das 6. Kanad Baidya 7. Sumantra Pramanick 8. Shantanu Bhattacharya 9. Santanu Manna 10. Krishnendu Mondal 11. Sutapa Karmakar 12. Soumi Goswami 13. Tuhin Manna 14. Sourav Dhawa 15. Bibidishananda Basu 16. Ani Ahan 17. Sommouli Sarkar 18. Chandramouli Ganguly 19. Anupam Mukherjee 20. Biswanath Mondal 21. Joydip Mukherjee 22. Tapan Nandi 23. Mainak Debnath 24. Sukanta Basu Roy 25. Anjan Ghosh 26. Sayankan Nag 27. Partha Das 28. Samantak Sahu 29. Arpan Ghosh. How to reach : Go to bus stop Eco Park gate no.3 by any Rajarhat bound bus from any part of the city. Birding site is the area just opposite this gate no.3. Sorry for long list of birds & participants. Thanks for patient reading. Cheers ! S.Patra Sunday Watch 13.10.14
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:40:01 +0000
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