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

Occurrence Observation
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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.

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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. Version 1.1. Training Organization. Occurrence dataset. https://training-ipt-a.gbif.org/resource?r=narathali_2018&v=1.1

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Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

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Arjan Basu Roy
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Lina Chatterjee
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West Bengal
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Tarak Samanta
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700032 Kolkata
West Bengal
IN
Rishin Basu Roy
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700032 Kolkata
West Bengal
IN
Nivedita Sengupta
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West Bengal
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Vijay Barve
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Nature Mates-Nature Club
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700032 Kolkata
West Bengal
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Nivedita Sengupta
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Geographic Coverage

Narathali Bil, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India

Bounding Coordinates South West [89.081, 25.486], North East [89.735, 26.517]

Taxonomic Coverage

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.

Class Aves (Bird)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date 2018-02-14

Bibliographic Citations

  1. IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [28/10/2023].
  2. 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.

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