Lineated Barbet

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Bengali: দাগী বসন্তবৌরি, গোরখুদ, বেঘবৌ

Scientific Name: Psilopogon lineatus

IUCN: Least Concern

Descriptions: Luminous green barbet. Similar to Brown-headed Barbet and White-cheeked Barbet but bold white streaking on head and breast, large bare yellow eye patch, whitish chin and throat. Uniform unspotted wing coverts.

Food: They primarily feed on fruits, but will also eat a wide range of insects, such as ants, cicadas, dragonflies, crickets, locusts, beetles, moths and mantids.

Habitation: Moist broadleaved forest, open woodland and roadside avenues with fruiting trees.

Distribution: Distributed in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, southeast Asia and China.

Himalayan Monal

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Bengali: হিমালয়ের মোনাল

Scientific Name: Lophophorus impejanus

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: It is a relatively large-sized pheasant. The adult male has multicolored plumage throughout, while the female, as in other pheasants, is dull in color. The male has a long distinctive metallic green crest, blue rump, coppery feathers on the back and neck, and a prominent white lower back that is most visible when the bird is in flight. The entire tail feathers of the male are cinnamon-rufous. The female has dark rump white upper-tail coverts, strongly demarcated white chin and throat pale streaking on under parts.

Food: They feed on various insects, seeds, tubers, roots, and berries.

Habitat: During the summer season, inhabiting open, grassy slopes. During winter, this bird moves towards lower level forests taking shelter in dense areas of bamboo and rhododendrons. (2500-5000ft)

Distribution: The Himalayan monal's native range extends from Afghanistan and Pakistan through the Himalayas in India, Nepal, southern Tibet, and Bhutan.

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Pheasant-Tailed Jacana

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Bengali: জলময়ূর

Scientific Name: Hydrophasianus chirurgus

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: The Pheasant-tailed Jacana is the only jacana to have a separate breeding plumage, when it is a conspicuous and unmistakable bird. It is the longest species in the jacana family when the tail streamers are included.  

Breeding adults are chocolate-brown upperparts contrasting with white wings panel, upper-wing is white and black tip. White head, chin, throat and lower neck. Black patch on the nape, extending down to the neck sides which are golden-yellow. The hind neck is golden. There is a striking white eye-stripe. The legs and very long toes are grey.

Non-breeding adults tail is much shorter. The upperparts are paler, greenish-brown. Crown and hindneck are blackish. The underparts are white except for a brown breast band and neck stripe. The side of the neck is golden.

Food:  Insects and other invertebrates, picked from the floating vegetation or the water's surface. They also take frogs and fish.

Habitat: It is found on small to large lakes having sufficient floating vegetation on them.

Distribution: Resident breeder in tropical India, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia.

Purple Swamphen

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Bengali: বেগুনি কালেম

Scientific Name: Porphyrio poliocephalus

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: It has silky purple-blue plumage with metallic gloss on throat and breast, contrasting with the white undertail coverts. It has heavy red bill and frontal shield and pinkish-red legs and feet with long toes. The tail is flicked up and down.

Food: They take soft shoots of reeds and rushes and small animals, such as frogs and snails.

Habitat:  Inhabitant of marshy, vegetated freshwater bodies such as swamps, rivers, and lakes.

Distribution: It is found in Middle East, through the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand.

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Barn Swallow

Bengali: মেঠো আবাবিল

Scientific Name: Hirundo rustica

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: It has a steel-blue head and above, with an orange-buff breast and belly. It has a rufous forehead, chin and throat, which are separated from the off-white underparts by a broad dark blue breast band. It has a long, slender, deeply forked tail. There is a line of white spots across the outer end of the upper tail. Females are slightly duller and shorter-tailed than males.

Food: The barn swallow is an insectivore. It only eats insects. Grasshoppers, beetles, moths, and other flying insects.

Habitat: It can be found in farmlands, suburbs, marshes and lakeshores.

Distribution: It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Little Grebe

Bengali: ডুবুরি

Scientific Name: Tachybaptus ruficollis

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: The little grebe is a small, brown grebe, with a fluffy, round-looking bottom and predominantly dark above with its rich, rufous colour neck, cheeks and flanks, and bright yellow gape. 

Food: Their diet consists of insects, small fish, mollusks, crustaceans, and amphibians.

Habitat: Inhabits a wide range of small and shallow wetlands usually less than 1 m depth with rich vegetation.

Distribution:  Widely distributed in heavily vegetated areas of freshwater lakes across Europe, much of Asia down to New Guinea, and most of Africa.

Common Kingfisher

Bengali: ছোট মাছরাঙা

Scientific Name: Alcedo atthis

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: This sparrow-sized bird has the typical short-tailed, large-headed kingfisher profile. It has bright metallic-blue upperparts including head, back is cobalt color and one can see greenish reflections on the head and wings. Orange ear-coverts and underparts, the chin and sides of neck are white. A long blackish bill and reddish orange at the base. Legs are bright red.

Food: The Common kingfisher is carnivore and mainly eats fish and small crustaceans, such as prawns and crabs. It also catches insects in flight.

Habitat: In temperate regions, this kingfisher inhabits clear, slow-flowing streams and rivers, and lakes with well-vegetated banks.

Distribution:  Widely distributed over Europe, Asia, and North Africa, mainly south of 60°N. 

Stork-Billed Kingfisher

 Bengali: মেঘহও মাছরাঙা / গুরিয়াল

Scientific Name: Pelargopsis capensis

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: It has huge red bill. have a greenish-blue back, blue wings and tail, and a grey to brown crown and head. The neck and underparts are orange-yellow coloured and coral red small legs.

Food: mostly marine and freshwater fish

Habitat: Stork-billed Kingfisher is a species of a variety of well-wooded habitats near lakes, rivers or coasts and mangroves.

Distribution: widely but sparsely distributed in the tropical Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India to Indonesia. 

White-Throated Kingfisher or White-Breasted Kingfisher

Bengali: সাদা বুক মাছরাঙা / ধলাগলা মাছরাঙা

Scientific Name: Halcyon smyrnensis

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: Thick, reddish-orange bills, red legs, and its head, shoulders, flanks and lower belly are chestnut. A brilliant white patch can be found on the throat and sometimes at the breast. The wings and the tail are bright blue with white patches on the primaries and black distal tips. In flight, large white patches are visible on the blue and black wings.

Food: This species are carnivorous, mainly hunts large crustaceans, insects, earthworms, rodents, snakes, fish and frogs. Predation of small birds such as the Oriental White-eye, chick of a sparrows and munias have been reported.

Habitat: They are common in agricultural areas, swamps, marshes, near ponds, lakes, in parklands and in mangrove swamps.

Distribution:  Widely distributed in Asia from the Sinai east through the Indian subcontinent to the Philippines.

 

Red-Crested Pochard

Bengali: লালঝুঁটি ভুতিহাঁস

Scientific Name: Netta rufina

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: Large, square orange head, red bill and black breast. The flanks are white, the back brown, and the tail black. The female is mainly a pale brown, with a darker back and crown and a whitish face. Eclipse males are like females but with red iris and bills.

Food: They are omnivores, and they take aquatic vegetation supplemented by aquatic invertebrates, amphibians, small fishes.

Habitat: Breeding habitat is lowland marshes and lakes. They also inhabit deep fresh or brackish water bodies. They occur in reed-fringed lakes, rivers, lagoons, estuaries, rivers, streams and sheltered coastal habitats.

Distribution:  Scattered across North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Ruff

Bengali: গেওয়ালা বাটান

Scientific Name: Calidris pugnax

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: It is a medium sized wading bird with long neck, lack prominent supercilium, small head, short and slightly downcurved bill, strongly patterned back, white sides to upper tail coverts, white lower back absent. Long yellowish and orange legs.

Food: They are omnivores, and they feed on both invertebrates and seeds or berries. They eat flies, frogs, small fish, beetles, snails, spiders, worms, and more.

Habitat: During the breeding season they utilize marshes and flooded grasslands or meadows. They also inhabit scrubland, wetlands, and estuaries or deltas. These birds also live in flooded pastures and farms, and one of their favorite habitats are rice paddies.

Distribution:  It breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. This highly gregarious sandpiper is migratory and sometimes forms huge flocks in its winter grounds, which include southern and western Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australia.

White Wagtail

  

Bengali: সাদা খঞ্জনা  

Scientific Name: Motacilla alba

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: It is a medium sized wagtail with pied plumage, black-backed races, white foreheads, and different wing patterns. As many as six subspecies may be present in the wintering ground in India or Southeast Asia and here they can be difficult to distinguish. breeding plumaged males can be identified to subspecies as follows:

Black-Backed Races:

(a) alboides: black-ear coverts.

(b) lucopsis: white-ear coverts.

Grey-Backed Races:

(a) dukhunensis: white-ear coverts, black chin and black throat.

(b) baicalensis: white-ear coverts, black chin and black throat.

(c) personata: black-ear coverts.

(d) ocularis: black eye-stripe.

Food: Terrestrial and aquatic insects and other small invertebrates form the major part of their diet.

Habitat: In winters near water in open country and breeds by running waters in open country in hills and mountains.

Distribution: Distributed in Europe, Asia, Africa continent. It also breeds in the mountains of Morocco and western Alaska.

Osprey

 

Bengali: মাছমুরাল 

Scientific Name: Pandion haliaetus

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: Also known as Fish Hawk, Sea Hawk or River Hawk. Long wings, short tail, upperparts are a deep, glossy brown, while the breast is white and sometimes streaked with brown, and the underparts are pure white. The head is white with a dark mask across the eyes, black bill

Food: They eats almost exclusively live fish.  Occasionally, the osprey may feed on rodents, frogs and other birds.

Habitat: Rivers, lakes, coast. Found near water, either fresh or salt, where large numbers of fish are present. May be most common around major coastal estuaries and salt marshes, but also regular around large lakes, reservoirs, rivers.

Distribution: It is found in temperate and tropical regions of all continents, except Antarctica.

Little Ringed Plover

 

  

Bengali: ছোট নথজিরিয়া

Scientific Name: Charadrius dubius

IUCN: Least Concern

Description: It is a small plover with  grey-brown back and wings, a white belly and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a brown cap, a white forehead, a black mask around the eyes with striking yellow eye-ring and a short dark bill. Legs are dull pink-yellow. Does not show wing bar in flight.

Food: They eat insects and worms.

Habitat: Breeds on stony substrates around lakes, gravel pits, and along rivers; migrants occur in wide variety of fresh and brackish wetland habitats, but rarely out on open tidal areas.

Distribution: Distributed in Europe, central Asia, Middle East, central Africa, Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia.