Sundarban bird festival
#GS 03 Biodiversity Conservation
For Prelims
Sundarban bird festival
- The first-ever festival Sundarban bird was organised by the Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) division of West Bengal Forest Department.
- During the festival six teams visited different areas inside the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve.
- 78 forest birds, six species of waterfowl and 42 species of waders, raptors etc were recorded during the bird festival.
- 5,065 birds were spotted during the exercise including Eurasian Curlew and Lesser Sand Plover, two threatened bird species of the Sundarbans.
Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR)
- The Sunderbans Delta renowned for being the only mangrove forest in the world inhabited by tigers.
- The name ‘Sundarban’ can be translated to “beautiful forest” and it is believed to be derived from a mangrove tree species ‘Sundari’ (Heritierafomes).
- It is located south of the Tropic of Cancer.
- The Indian Sunderbans, cover 4,200 square kilometres and include the 2,585-square-kilometer Sunderban Tiger Reserve.
- It is also a world heritage site and a Ramsar Site, and are home to about 96 Royal Bengal Tigers (2020).
- These forests provide home to many rare and globally threatened wildlife species including the estuarine crocodile, Royal Bengal Tiger, Water monitor lizard, Gangetic dolphin, and olive ridley turtles.
Source “Wildlife enthusiasts spot 145 species during first Sundarban bird festival”
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