Rapid Documentation Of Avifaunal Diversity of Narathali Bil, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India, 2018

Arjan Basu Roy; Lina Chatterjee; Tarak Samanta; Rishin Basu Roy; Nivedita Sengupta; Vijay Barve

doi:10.15468/e8e9gg

Rapid Documentation Of Avifaunal Diversity of Narathali Bil, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India, 2018

Citation

Basu Roy A, Chatterjee L, Samanta T, Basu Roy R, Sengupta N, Barve V (2023). Rapid Documentation Of Avifaunal Diversity of Narathali Bil, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India, 2018. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/e8e9gg accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

The dataset “Rapid Documentation Of Avifaunal Diversity of Narathali Bil, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India, 2018” is published by Nature Mates Nature Club. The Himalayan foothills provide climatic and habitat conditions that attract avian visitors for wintering and staging (Chatterjee et al. 2020). The Himalayan foothills are crossed by many rivers that originated from Himalaya and their disposition formed flood plain land masses over a long period of time. Over time the rivers changed their course and formed oxbow lake, a type of lentic freshwater wetlands (wetland type code 1102, Indian Space Research Organization, 2011). The study area under concern, Narathali wetland, was such an oxbow lake that has undergone retrogressive changes over time to appear as a shallow wetland. Narathali originated from Raydak river. Narathali wetland is a perennial wetland ecosystem with an area of around 6.5 hectares, an approximate length of 1.3 km, a width of 50 meters, and a mean depth of 2.75 meters. Narathali wetland is vital for many migratory birds. The native common reed (Phragmites karka), in marshy areas, grassy meadow, sedges and mudflat provides a good resting area for the birds. The dataset presented a comprehensive record of avian species observed during a field excursion. All the birds have been categorized and identified upto species rank. The avian taxonomic group , consisting of 43 species that are categorized into15 families and 10 orders.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

All the birds have been categorized and identified upto species rank. The avian taxonomic group , consisting of 43 species that are categorized into15 families and 10 orders.

Aves
common name: Bird rank: class

Geographic Coverages

Narathali Bil, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India

Bibliographic Citations

IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [28/10/2023]. -
Chatterjee, Asitava & Adhikari, Shuvadip & Pal, Sudin & Mukhopadhyay, Subhra. (2020). COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF MIGRATORY WATERBIRDS AT TWO IMPORTANT WINTERING SITES IN A SUB-HIMALAYAN FOREST TRACT IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA. Ring. 42. 15-37. 10.1515/ring-2020-0002. -
Grimmett R, Inskipp C, Inskipp T (2016) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Bloomsbury Publishing. -

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Arjan Basu Roy
originator
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West Bengal
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Lina Chatterjee
originator
position: Research Affiliate
Nature Mates-Nature Club
6/7 Bijoygarh
Kolkata
700032
West Bengal
IN
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Tarak Samanta
originator
position: Research Affiliate
Nature Mates-Nature Club
6/7 Bijoygarh
Kolkata
700032
West Bengal
IN
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Rishin Basu Roy
originator
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Nature Mates-Nature club
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Kolkata
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West Bengal
IN
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Nivedita Sengupta
originator
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Kolkata
700032
West Bengal
IN
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Vijay Barve
originator
position: Research Advisor
Nature Mates-Nature Club
6/7 Bijoygarh
Kolkata
700032
West Bengal
IN
email: vijay.barve@gmail.com
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Lina Chatterjee
metadata author
position: Research Affiliate
Nature Mates-Nature Club
6/7 Bijoygarh
Kolkata
700032
West Bengal
IN
email: lina.linachatterjee@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturematesindia.org/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5626-5046

Nivedita Sengupta
metadata author
position: Intern
Nature Mates-Nature Club
6/7 Bijoygarh
Kolkata
700032
West Bengal
IN
email: niveditasngpta.ns@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturematesindia.org/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-7385

Vijay Barve
metadata author
position: Research Advisor
Nature Mates-Nature Club
6/7 Bijoygarh
Kolkata
700032
West Bengal
IN
email: vijay.barve@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturematesindia.org/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567

Nivedita Sengupta
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Arjan Basu Roy
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position: Secretary
Nature Mates-Nature Club
6/7 Bijoygarh
Kolkata
700032
West Bengal
IN
Telephone: 98743 57414
email: basuroyarjan@gmail.com
homepage: http://www.naturematesindia.org/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9872-3562