FIELD REPORT
Date of Trip: 28th November 2010. (Sunday)
Duration of Trip: 6:25 am to 3:45 pm
Location: Green View, South 24 paraganas (near Joka
Kalimandir which is only 5 mins from Thakurpukur Bazar Busstop by Auto
Rickshaw.).
Temperature: (As in Alipur) Max 31.6°C(+4) and Min 21.7°C(+6).
Humidity: (As in Alipur) Max 94% and Min 51%.
Weather: More or less clear sky. Sometimes gentle wind.
Temperature is higher than it should be in this date of November.
Habitat: Wet Land with some reed bed and aquatic plants.
Also some trees, shrubs, herbs, creepers and grasses are there. But
due to lack of sufficient rainfall this year, amount of water is less
than expected and the habitat looks dry. So number of birds, butterfly
and other insects is low and lesser-whistling duck, cotton pigmy
goose, common moorhen which are very common here are now absent.
BRIEF REPORT:-
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Green View, a place near Joka Kalimandir is our this week's birding
spot. Green View can be reached by getting down at Thakurpukur Bazar
and then by taking an auto to Joka Kalimandir which takes hardly 5
mins. Just opposite to the Kalimandir is Green View, a wetland area.
Srikanta, Susanta, Aritra and Subhendu have surveyed this place for
almost a year and have reported many interesting and useful sightings
from this area. So we planned to visit this place and get a feel of
this area. Most of the place remains logged in water in rainy season.
With rainy season being over and it is winter now, we visited the
place with a lot of expectations. We entered through the Green View
gate and went inside to find a small pond in the right with a few
Bronze-winged Jacanas moving from here to there with their juveniles.
Then to the left in the reed bed we could see a few reed warblers (one
was probably a Black-browed Reed Warbler) which could not be
identified and a few prinias. A pair of Hoopoe was seen hopping in the
open field. By the time we left this place and proceeded forward, it
was really hot and sunny. With very less bird movement in such a
potentially rich place, we proceeded further. Other than some plain
prinias, yellow-bellied prinias, some clamorous reed warblers and a
sight of Eurasian Wryneck it was really a day of disappointment. We
left the place at 3:30pm.
Our expectation was high. But due to lack of sufficient rainfall this
year, amount of water is less than expected and the habitat looks dry.
So number of birds, butterfly and other insects was really low. The
trip was sort of an unsatisfactory one.
TEAM MEMBERS:-
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1. Subhankar Patra.
2. Sujit Das.
3. Jayanta Manna.
4. Avisek Chatterjee.
5. Saroj Kumar Tula.
6. Raja Das.
7. Ushnish Das.
8. Susanta Bagh.
9. Aritra Mishra.
10. Subhendu Das.
11. Srikanta Dhali.
12. Animesh Manna.
13. Kathakali Goswami.
PLEASE NOTE THAT AN APPOXIMATE NUMBER OF A PARTICULAR SPECIES OBSERVED
IS INDICATED IN BRACKETS () BY THE SIDE OF THE NAME OF THE SPECIES.
BIRDS OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP:-
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1. Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker(1).
2. Black-rumped Flameback(3).
3. Blue-throated Barbet(2).
4. Coppersmith Barbet(1).
5. Common Hoopoe(6).
6. Common Kingfisher(1).
7. White-throated Kingfisher(4).
8. Stork-billed Kingfisher(2).
9. Green Bee-eater(15).
10. Common-Hawk Cuckoo(3).
11. Asian Koel(8).
12. Greater Coucal(2).
13. Rose-ringed Parakeet(10).
14. House Swift(8).
15. Asian Palm Swift(35).
16. Spotted Owlet(2).
17. Rock Pigeon(30).
18. Spotted Dove(25).
19. Eurasian Collared Dove(10).
20. Yellow-footed Green Pigeon(12).
21. White-breasted Waterhen(5).
22. Bronze-winged Jacana(12).
23. Black Kite(5).
24. Shikra(2).
25. Little Cormorant(15).
26. Cattle Egret(100).
27. Indian Pond Heron(20).
28. Asian Openbill(5).
29. Brown Shrike(12) (cristatus – 10, luciolensis - 2)
30. Tricolor Long-tailed Shrike(6).
31. Rufous Treepie(8).
32. House Crow(75).
33. Large-billed Crow(2).
34. Black-hooded Oriole(8).
35. Black Drongo(20).
36. Common Iora(2).
37. Red-throated Flycatcher(2).
38. Oriental Magpie Robin(3).
39. Chestnut-tailed Starling(25).
40. Asian Pied Starling(45).
41. Jungle Myna(20).
42. Common Myna(60).
43. Barn Swallow(6)
44. Red-vented Bulbul(20).
45. Plain Prinia(12).
46. Yellow-bellied Prinia(3).
47. Zitting Cisticola(1).
48. Blyth's Reed Warbler(5).
49. Clamarous Reed Warbler(6)
50. Common Tailorbird(3).
51. Jungle Babbler(15).
52. Purple Sunbird(6).
53. Purple-rumped Sunbird(5).
54. House Sparrow(20).
55. White Wagtail(10)(leucopsis).
56. Citrine Wagtail(10)(calcarata).
57. Yellow Wagtail(15)(beema).
58. Grey Wagtail(5).
59. Paddy-field Pipit(12).
60. Richard's Pipit(2).
61. Eurasian Wryneck(1).
62. Black-browed Reed Warbler(2).
BUTTERFLIES OBSERVED IN THE FIELD TRIP:-
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1. Common Rose(2).
2. Tailed Jay(3).
3. Common Mime(1)(dissimilis 1).
4. Common Mormon(8).
5. Lime(3).
6. Common Jezebel(12).
7. Psyche(10).
8. Stripped Albatross(8).
9. Common Emigrant(8).
10. Mottled Emigrant(12).
11. Common Grass Yellow(15).
12. Three-spot Grass Yellow(8).
13. Tawny Coster(3).
14. Common Castor(5).
15. Commander(2).
16. Grey Pansy(12).
17. Peacock Pansy(3).
18. Common Baron(1).
19. Common Bushbrown(8).
20. Dark-brand Bushbrown(2).
21. Common Four Ring(1).
22. Common Evening Brown(15).
23. Dark Evening Brown(2).
24. Common Palmfly(2).
25. Plain Tiger(2).
26. Common Crow(10).
27. Common Pierrot(2).
28. Gram Blue(1).
29. Dark Grass Blue(2).
30. Tiny Grass Blue(2).
31. Lesser Grass Blue(1).
32. Rice Swift(2).
33. Large-branded Swift(3).
34. Small-branded Swift(2).
DRAGONFLIES OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP:-
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1. Common Clubtail(1).
2. Blue-tailed Green Darner(1).
3. Yellow-tailed Yellow Darner(2).
4. Scarlet Marsh Hawk(2).
5. Ditch Jewel(12).
6. Ruddy Marsh Skimmer(15).
7. Black-tipped Ground Skimmer(2).
8. Ground Skimmer(12).
9. Pied Paddy Skimmer(1).
10. Green Marsh Hawk(12).
11. Wandering Glider(25).
12. Common Picture Wing(4).
13. Crimson Marsh Glider(4).
14. Long-legged Marsh Glider(8).
DAMSELFLIES OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP:-
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1. Coromandel Marsh Dart(12).
2. Orange-tailed Marsh Dart(2).
3. Saffron-faced Blue Dart(1).
4. Pigmy Dartlet(3).
5. Agriocnemis femina(1).
6. Agriocnemis d'abreui(2).
7. Agriocnemis nana(1).
8. Senegal Golden Dartlet(2).
9. Blue Grass Dartlet – Pseudagrion microcephulum(1).
WE ALSO ENCOUNTERED:-
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We casually watched a few other species which we encountered in the
field. Reporting of these species is done to give an idea of the area
which we surveyed and this is not a comprehensive report of mammals,
reptiles, amphibians or insects in that area. Any serious watcher in
these areas must watch much more than what we have encountered.
MAMMALS: - 6 SPECIES
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1. Five-stripped Palm Squirrel(2).
2. Grey Mongoose(1).
3.
REPTILES: - 5 SPECIES
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1. Garden Lizard(2).
2. Buff-stripped Keelback(3).
3. Unidentified Gecko(1).
SPIDERS: - 11 SPECIES
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1. argiope catenulate(Grass cross spider).
2. argiope aemula(Oval cross spider).
3. smeringopus pallidus(Daddy Long-leg).
4. Giant Crab Spider.
5. Small Zebra Jumper.
6. oxyopes sheeta(White Lynx Spider).
7. Tent Spider(Star-legged Spider).
8. Brown Stick-mimic Spider.
9. Two-tailed Spider.
10. Another 4 other species of spider.
ANTS: - 12 SPECIES
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1. oecophylla smaragdina(Weaver Ant) [Bengali Name: Nalsa Pipre ].
2. crematogaster subnuda
3. tetraponera rufonigra(Large Tetraponera) [Bengali Name: Baro Kath Pipre].
4. tetraponera allaborans(Small Tetraponera) [Bengali Name: Choto Kath Pipre].
5. Fire Ant [Bengali Name: Baro Lal Pipre].
6. Diacama sp. [Bengali Name: Deo Pipre].
7. Camponotus sericeus(Golden-backed Ant).
8. Camponotus compressus(Black-backed Ant).
9. Bengali Name:- Gandhi Pipre.
10. Another 4 other species of Ants.
OTHER INSECTS:-
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1. At least 3 species of Grasshoppers.
2. At least 5 species of Beetles.
3. At least 2 species of Bugs.
4. At least 3 species of Moth.
5. At least 3 species of Wasp.
6. At least 2 species of Bee.
7. Leeches.
8. Many other insects.
Thanks to Subhankar da (Subhankar Patra) for helping me and guiding me
in writing this report. His encouragement is helping us to produce
this weekly report on our field trips. Also thanks to all team members
for their contribution in bringing out this report. Thanks to Sujit da
(Sujit Das) for formatting the report in such a good way.
Cheers,
Avisek Chatterjee on behalf of the team members.
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