Great Barbet

Bengali: Unknown

Scientific Name: Megalaima Virens 

IUCN: Least Concern 

Descriptions: A brightly colored barbet with a massive yellow bill with bristles at its base. Maroon-brown with violet blue-black head. Olive-brown, blue and yellow with a bright scarlet patch under the tail. 

Food:  Mainly takes wild fruits. Figs, berries, wild plums, flowers, buds and seeds are their primary food but occasionally they also eat a wide range of insects.

Habitat: The great barbet is a resident breeder in the lower-to-middle altitudes of the Himalayas, ranging across northern India, Nepal and Bhutan, Bangladesh and some parts of Southeast Asia where it inhabits foremost forests up to 3,000 m altitude.

Distribution: Native to the Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia.

Blue-Fronted Redstart

                                                 BLUE-FRONTED REDSTART (Left: Male Right:Female)

Bengali: নীলকপালি গির্দি

Scientific Name: Phoenicurus frontalis

IUCN: Least Concern

Descriptions: Male is unmistakable, with his orange breast, belly, and tail and ultramarine-blue head and back. Female is brown with no wing-bars and an orange tail and lower belly; watch out for the unique upside-down black ‘T’ on her tail.

Food: Mainly eat insects, berries, fruits, and seeds.

Habitat: Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Distribution: Its range includes the northern regions of the Indian Subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia.

Blue Whistling Thrush

Bengali: নীল শিসদামা

Scientific Name : Myophonus Caeruleus

Conservation Status : Least Concern

Description : Dark purple with tiny silvery spots on head, back, and wings. Bill color varies with range: dark in central and eastern China and parts of mainland Southeast Asia, bright yellow in populations elsewhere. Frequently fans tail while standing on an exposed perch such as a waterside rock or overhanging branch. True to its name, it does whistle: a long piercing note that carries well over the sound of rushing water.

Food : They feed on fruits, earthworms, insects, crabs and snails. Snails and crabs are typically battered on a rock before feeding. In captivity, they have been known to kill and eat mice and in the wild have been recorded preying on small birds.

Habitat :  In temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Distribution : They make altitudinal movements in the Himalayas, descending in winter.

Citrine Wagtail

Bengali : হলদে-মাথা খঞ্জনা 

Scientific Name : Motacilla Citreola

IUCN : Least Concern (Population stable)

Description : Grey back; diagnostic yellow head, sides of face, complete underbody; white in dark wings.

Food : Insects, small snails.

Habitat : Marshes, Wet cultivation, Jheel edges.

Distribution : Winter visitor over most of India.