Dear all, Yesterday (Sunday : 3.8.14) we found surprising at least 78 bird species at Baidyabati Khal in Hooghly, West Bengal in between 6.25 a.m. and 6.35 p.m. such as : Lesser Whistling Duck 6 Cotton Pigmy-goose 12 Asian Openbill 30 Black-headed Ibis 19 Cinnamon Bittern 2 Black Bittern 3 Striated Heron 1 Black-crowned Night Heron 25 Indian Pond Heron 35 Purple Heron 15 Cattle Egret 40 Little Egret 8 Intermediate Egret 8 Great Egret 6 Little Cormorant 35 Indian Cormorant 15 Common Kestrel 1, winter visitor Black Kite 5 Shikra 1 White-breasted Waterhen 8 Watercock 3 Common Moorhen 2 Bronze-winged Jacana 8 Pheasant-tailed Jacana 4 Red-wattled Lapwing 15 Wood Sandpiper 100, winter visitor Green Sandpiper 25, winter visitor Common Sandpiper 10, winter visitor Spotted Dove 35 Eurasian Collared Dove 20 Rock Pigeon 15 Yellow-footed Green Pigeon 35 Rose-ringed Parakeet 12 Jacobin Cuckoo 1 Common Hawk Cuckoo 3 Asian Koel 4 Greater Coucal 5 Spotted Owlet 1 Little Swift 2 Asian House Swift 25 Stork-billed Kingfisher 8 White-throated Kingfisher 10 Common Kingfisher 2 Blue-throated Barbet 2 Coppersmith Barbet 8 Lesser Goldenback 3 Ashy Woodswallow 12 Common Iora 3 Long-tailed Shrike (tricolor subspecies) 3 Black Drongo 40 Black-hooded Oriole 3 Rufous Treepie 12 House Crow 150 Eastern Jungle Crow 15 Bengal Bushlark 3 Red-vented Bulbul 35 Plain Prinia 40 Yellow-bellied Prinia 3 Zitting Cisticola 15 Common Tailorbird 12 Jungle Babbler 5 Common Myna 100 Jungle Myna 100 Asian Pied Starling 200 Chestnut-tailed Starling 10 Oriental Magpie Robin 5 Pale-billed Flowerpecker 2 Purple Sunbird 6 House Sparrow 2 Baya Weaver 50 Black-breasted Weaver 2 Streaked Weaver 1 Scaly-breasted Munia 50 White-rumped Munia 2 Red Avadavat 4 Tricolored Munia 12 Indian Silverbill 15 Paddyfield Pipit 1. Total number of species seen : 78 (seventy eight). Weather : Mainly cloudy sky. Sometimes we got clear sun particularly after rain. We experienced a few spells of medium to heavy rain with gusty wind. Remarks : Bird movement was not so satisfactory. Trip was more or less successful. Participants : Me 2. Firoz Hussain (Jorhat, Assam based well known birder) 3. Sumanta Pramanick 4. Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay 5. Santanu Pal 6. Sudipta Santra 7. Santanu Chatterjee 8. Biswanath Mondal 9. Susmita Dutta 10. Arabinda Doloi 11. Swapna Biswas 12. Swarnali Mukherjee 13. Kasturi Saha 14. Swapan Dutta 15. Soumya Sengupta 16. Bibidishananda Basu 17. Manoranjan Adhikari 18. Joydeep Mukherjee. How to reach : Very simple. Howrah to Baidyabati station by any main line local train (40 minutes). Then to Baidyabati Khal is only 15-minute walk parallel to railway track towards Bhadreswar station. Actually watching starts right from the station. We covered total around 7 Kilometers from the station to the village Gourangapur. Sorry for long list and thanks for patient reading. Cheers ! S.Patra Sunday Watch 4.8.14
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