20 students and 2  Advisors of the Clean Club  visited Baruipur on Saturday morning 28 January for a Bird Walk. Mr Caesar Sen along with Ms Sanchita Dey, Mr Sriram Iyer and Mr Sayan Tripathi, all senior birders, guided the walk watching and identifying marsh and water birds as well as the arboreal and grassland avians on reeds, grass and other plants. A number of resident and migratory birds were spotted. The experienced birders carried a spotting scope and a few binoculars which were very helpful for the students to spot and  identify the birds and learn more about the avian world. A big Water Monitor Lizard was also spotted in the marsh.

Ms Susmita Basu, an expert on plants also accompanied the group and conducted the 'Know the Habitat ' session brilliantly. She identified the different plant species providing the students with  the local as well as the botanical names of the plants. She also explained the interdependence of the flora and fauna of any region and how important it was to protect and maintain the balance in nature.

It was an enjoyable and interactive learning experience for the students.

List of birds :
1) House Crow
2) House Sparrow
3) Common Myna
4) Asian Pied Starling
5) Red-vented Bulbul
6) Spotted Dove
7) Oriental Magpie Robin.
8) Green Bee-eater
9) Long-tailed Shrike (tricolour)
10) Darter
11) Purple Heron
12) Lesser Whistling Teals
13) Intermediate Egret
14) Cattle Egret
15) Little Egret
16) Indian Cormorants
17) Little Cormorants
18) Barn Swallow.
19) Palm Swift
20) Common Moorhen
21) Yellow Bittern
22) White-breasted Waterhen
23) Pond Heron
24) Bronze-winged Jacana
25) Pheasant-tailed Jacana
26) Paddyfield Pipit
27) Brown Shrike
28) Pied Harrier
29) Black Kite
39) King/Blue-breasted Quail (male)
40) Common/Siberian Stonechat
41) Zitting Cisticola
42) Common Sandpiper
42) Wood Sandpiper
43) Green Sandpiper
44) White-breasted Kingfisher (State bird of West Bengal)
45) Black Drongo
47) Red-wattled Lapwing
48) Plain Prinia
49) Greater Coucal ((Crow Pheasant)
50) Plaintive Cuckoo
51) Common Snipe
52) White Wagtail
53) Jungle Babbler
54) Rufous-winged/Bengal Bushlark
55) Purple Sunbird
56) Asian Openbill
57) Indian Roller
58) Grey-headed Swamphen with three chicks

Reptile : Water Monitor Lizard

Posted On : 31/01/2023