First Sundarban Bird Festival.

February 13, 2023

Recently, 145 different bird species were sighted during the first Sundarban Bird Festival.
The first-ever festival was organised by the Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) division of the West Bengal Forest Department, where several teams visited different areas inside the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve.
The Bird Festival provides baseline data on Sundarbans’ bird species diversity.
The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) in 2021, had recorded 428 bird species in the Sundarbans which is one-third of all the avian species (derived from birds) found in the country.
The species recorded during the Bird Festival included 78 forest birds and 42 species of waders, raptors etc. The two-day exercise which ended on Friday also recorded 12 species of raptors, six species of waterfowl and seven other bird species.
Among the threatened species of the Sundarbans, Eurasian Curlew was spotted.
The Sundarbans are part of the migratory routes of the Central Asian Flyway.