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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