First bird festival in Sundarbans
February 19 , 2023
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- The first-ever festival was organised by the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve (STR) division of the West Bengal Forest Department.
- The Bird Festival provides baseline data on Sundarbans’ bird species diversity.
- As much as 145 different bird species were sighted during the first Bird Festival.
- The species recorded during the Bird Festival included 78 forest birds and 42 species of waders, raptors etc.
- The total number of birds spotted during the exercise was 5,065.
- The Sundarbans is located on the delta of the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers in the Bay of Bengal.
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