Dear Avisek A wonderful report. I felt I was with you on this trip. Thanks for the list of species observed. Continue the good work With best wishes Alfred
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Avisek Chatterjee < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > A FIELD REPORT > > Date of Trip: 29th August 2010. (Sunday) > Duration of Trip: 7:00 am to 6:45 pm > Location: Shyamkhola, a birding hotspot located at 24 > Parganas (South) near Narendrapur, West Bengal. > Temperature: (As in Alipur) Max 33.6degree °C and Min 27.1degree °C. > Weather: Heavy Morning Shower in the morning then clear > sky for whole day interrupted by light rain. No wind; slightly sultry. > Humidity: (As in Alipur) Max 96% and Min 68%. > Habitat: Rural Area with farmland and wetland having > grass, bamboo, shrubs and herbs along with evergreen and deciduous > trees. > > BRIEF REPORT: > It was raining heavily from the very morning and we were afraid that > the trip might get cancelled or delayed. Fortunately, by the time we > reached Kalitala bus stop at 7 am, rain stopped. We started walking > towards Shyamkhola which was 2 km. away form Kalitola. That time the > sky was clear and sunny. It took us 3-4 hours (!) to reach Mr. Asit > Banerjee’s (one veteran nature-lover) House near Shyamkhola More. > The road to Shyamkhola was full of herbs and shrubs. The after-rain > sunny climate gave us an excellent opportunity to see many spiders, > insects, butterflies and dragonflies. We sighted two baby water > monitors on road side. Also the arrival of Soumyajit Chowdhury and > Rahi Soren helped us in identifying plants, spiders, bettles, bugs and > of course butterflies. At last we reached Asit Banerjee’s house. > Asit Banerjee’s house is really worthy to mention as it is a CKBS-II > to us. He and his family members love their surrounding wildlife and > environment so much that he has created a mini-sanctuary of his own > there. After taking rest and refreshment, we again went out towards > the wet-land of Shyamkhola but due to heavy rain we had to take a > halt. > We found that the Shyamkhola-wet land was fully under water and not > accessible to get there. So, we diverted our route towards Rathtala. > With very less sightings in the second half we reached the Rathtala > Bus-stop to end our trip at 6:45pm. Throughout the day bird movement > was much less though we sighted a moderate number of various > butterflies and dragonflies. > > TEAM MEMBERS: > Subhankar Patra, Sujit Das, Swapna Bhawal, Avisek Chatterjee, > Soumyajit Chowdhury, Rahi Soren, Prasenjit Dawn, Saroj Kumar Tula, > Manojit Chatterjee, Ushnish Das, Aritra Mishra, Srikanta Dhali, Rahul, > Subhendu and Santhirekha K. (from Bird Watching Society of Andhra > Pradesh(BSAP)). > > BIRDS OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP: > 1. Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker. > 2. Black-rumped Flameback. > 3. Blue-throated Barbet. > 4. Coppersmith Barbet. > 5. Lineated Barbet > 6. Common Kingfisher. > 7. White-throated Kingfisher. > 8. Stork-billed Kingfisher. > 9. Common-Hawk Cuckoo. > 10. Asian Koel. > 11. Greater Coucal. > 12. Rose-ringed Parakeet. > 13. House Swift. > 14. Asian Palm Swift. > 15. Spotted Owlet. > 16. Rock Pigeon. > 17. Spotted Dove. > 18. Yellow-footed Green Pigeon. > 19. White-breasted Waterhen. > 20. Bronze-winged Jacana. > 21. Black Kite. > 22. Little Cormorant. > 23. Cattle Egret. > 24. Indian Pond Heron. > 25. Asian Openbill. > 26. Rufous Treepie. > 27. House Crow. > 28. Large-billed Crow. > 29. Black-hooded Oriole. > 30. White-throated Fantail. > 31. Black Drongo. > 32. Bronzed Drongo. > 33. Common Iora. > 34. Orange-headed Thrush. > 35. Oriental Magpie Robin. > 36. Chestnut-tailed Starling. > 37. Asian Pied Starling. > 38. Jungle Myna. > 39. Common Myna. > 40. Red-whiskered Bulbul > 41. Red-vented Bulbul. > 42. Zitting Cisticola. > 43. Plain Prinia. > 44. Common Tailorbird. > 45. Jungle Babbler. > 46. Pale-billed Flowerpecker. > 47. Purple Sunbird. > 48. Purple-rumped Sunbird. > 49. House Sparrow. > 50. Scaly-breasted Munia. > > BUTTERFLIES OBSERVED IN THE FIELD TRIP: > 1. Crimson Rose > 2. Common Rose > 3. Common Jay > 4. Tailed Jay. > 5. Common Mime > 6. Common Mormon > 7. Lime > 8. Common Wanderer. > 9. Common Jezebel > 10. Psyche. > 11. Stripped Albatross > 12. Common Gull > 13. Common Emigrant > 14. Mottled Emigrant > 15. Common Grass Yellow > 16. Three-spot Grass Yellow. > 17. Tawny Coster. > 18. Common Castor > 19. Great Eggfly. > 20. Grey Pansy. > 21. Peacock Pansy. > 22. Common Bushbrown. > 23. Darkband Bushbrown. > 24. Common Four-ring. > 25. Common Palmfly. > 26. Blue Tiger. > 27. Plain Tiger. > 28. Common Crow. > 29. Brown King Crow. > 30. Common Pierrot. > 31. Quaker. > 32. Gram Blue. > 33. Lime Blue. > 34. Ciliate Blue. > 35. Tiny Grass Blue. > 36. Dark Grass Blue. > 37. Pale Grass Blue. > 38. Common Cerulean. > 39. Yamfly. > 40. Common Silverline. > 41. Monkey Puzzle. > 42. Bush Hopper. > 43. Chestnut Bob. > 44. Grass Deamon. > 45. Indian Palm Bob. > 46. Common Redeye. > 47. Straight Swift. > 48. Paintbrush Swift. > 49. (Unidentified) Swift. > > DRAGONFLIES OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP: > 1. Trumpet Tail > 2. Scarlet Marsh Hawk > 3. Ditch Jewel > 4. Ruddy Marsh Skimmer > 5. Ground Skimmer. > 6. Asiatic Blood Tail. > 7. Fulvous Forest Skimmer. > 8. Pied Paddy Skimmer > 9. Green Marsh Hawk. > 10. Wandering Glider. > 11. Rufous Marsh Glider. > 12. Common Picturewing. > 13. Crimson Marsh Glider. > 14. Greater Crimson Glider. > 15. Long-legged Marsh Glider. > > DAMSELFLIES OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP: > 1. Coromandel Marsh Dart. > 2. Orange-tailed Marsh Dart. > 3. Senegal Golden Dartlet. > 4. Pigmy Dartlet. > 5. Black Marsh Dart. > > OTHER THAN THESE WE OBSERVED THE FOLLOWING: > 1. Garden Lizard. > 2. Five-stripped Palm Squirrel. > 3. Bronze Grass Skink. > 4. Grey Mongoose. > 5. Common Green Vine Snake (Laudaga). > 6. Rat Snake (Darash). > 7. Water Monitor (Varanus salvator). > 8. Skipper Frog. > 9. Indian Bull Frog. > 10. Common Toad. > 11. At least 14 types of Spider. > 12. At least 10 types of Grasshopper. > 13. At least 10 types of Ants. > 14. At least 9 types of Beetle. > 15. At least 4 types of Bug. > > Thanks to Subhankar da (Subhankar Patra) for helping me and guiding me > in writing this report. His encouragement is helping us to produce > this weekly report on our field trips. Also thanks to all team members > for their contribution in bringing out this report. Thanks to Sujit da > (Sujit Das) for formatting the report in such a good way. > > Cheers, > Avisek Chatterjee on behalf of the team members. > > -- Dr. J.R.B. Alfred 522 C Lake Gardens 'Kundahar' Kolkata-700 045 West Bengal Tel Nos.: 91-33-24226608 Mobile: 91-33-9433758823 E-mail:; [email protected] -- Enjoy
