Due to fresh water logging and greeneries all around - this bheri houses a good number of spare visited winter birds, common birds and many migratory birds. Every year - I visit this place usually four five times to watch seasonal varieties inside this small bio-sphere of Nalban. Starting from the SDF Building left side - you can move towards nose straight and each corner of the bheri will help you to take turn. At the first corner (where the Banabibi temple) - I come across several times with Common kingfisher, White throated kingfisher, Pied kingfisher. So I name it as Kingfisher Zone. Across the fringes - I find clamorous reed warbler, paddy field warbler, scaly bellied munia, plain prinia, bengal bushlark, paddyfield pipit etc. In month of January February - you will encounter with the migratory birds like Gadwals, Pintails, Tufted duck, Common snipe - floating on the fresh waters. Just opposite of the water body - Long tailed shrike, Plaintive cuckoo, Yellow wagtail, White wagtail, Bluethroat - you can find in good numbers. I find this zone is packed with Long tailed shrike, Brown shrike etc. I name it as Shrike zone. Last winter - in late march/april - I found two Eurasian Eigeons and few Garganys; Some experts commented on the fact and the conclusion comes as - migratory birds on their return migration route use Nalban for temporary stoppage.
Some recent birding surveys discloses the truth - that many varieties is already lost from this wetland. These include Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Common Ringed Plover, Wood Sandpiper, Marsh,Terek & Curlew Sandpiper, Little & Temminck’s Stint etc. Some of small plots inside this project are being let out for Picnic and the disturbance and the sound pollution (Sound Box usage, Crackers) caused serious threat to the avian life.
Weekend Birding Trip Reports at Nalban [2007-2009] posted in Bengalbirds GoogleGroup
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Visit Nalban_bheri Feb 05 2008 |
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Numbers of Migratory birds alban Feb 16 2009 |
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Two hours birding nalban Mar 09 2009 |
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Gargany on return migration nalban Mar 03 2009 |