Pheasant-Tailed Jacana
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
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.
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.
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