FIELD REPORT
Date of Trip: 06th March 2011. (Sunday)
Duration of Trip: 7:10 am to 6:00 pm
Location: Deulpur, near Dhulagarh, Howrah. Route - PTS near
Rabindrasadan to Dhulagarh by Bus (40 minutes). Then to Gahaladanga
Samsan and Ashram by Auto (15 minutes); Then to bamboo bushes on to
Ashram on foot and to 'Puber jala' by foot.
Temperature: (As in Alipur) Max 35.1°C and Min 23.7°C.
Humidity: (As in Alipur) Max 80% and Min 30%.
Weather: Nice. Clear Sky. More or less soothing weather
except slightly hot noon.
Habitat: Mixed Habitat. Very large village with deciduous and
evergreen trees; all types of grasses - small, medium, tall; bamboo
bushes; a few ponds; marsh land – now naturally dry; Reed bed; shrubs,
herbs, creepers, ferns; aquatic plants; almost no cultivation(less
than 1% of the total land is cultivated).
BRIEF REPORT:-
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Deulpur, the place of Aquila hastata was considered to be our area of
survey on 06th March 2011, last to last Sunday. Deulpur is a village
near Dhulagarh and it provides diverse habitats starting from bamboo
grooves to reed beds. I still remember the last time we visited this
place (last year march) and how satisfactory it was. We started our
birding right after getting down from auto in the Gahaladanga Ashram
where our local co-birder Mrinal joined us. We started with the sight
of White-rumped Munia collecting nest materials and making nest and
Yellow-browed, Greenish and Common Chiffchaff warblers playing hide
and seek in the tree branches. Mrinal guided us to the bamboo groove,
lighting our hope of seeing Paradise Flycatcher which he saw a few day
back and the Golden-spectacled Warbler which required sheer luck.
Anyhow luck does not favor everyday and we were unable get sight of
any of them. But Forest Wagtail, Rufous Woodpecker and Golden Oriole
greeted us and of course Verditer Flycatcher and Black-naped
Monarch(though less) made our day. Crested Serpent Eagles were flying
above us making their harsh calls and one eventually perched at the
top of a bamboo tree. At the end of the bamboo groove there was small
hut where we sat for rest. After listening a lot about the population
of porcupine (Sajaru in bengali) in that area from a localite and
after seeing few of their hideouts and holes, we left that place.
Mrinal then guided us to Puber jala, quite far away from this bamboo
grooves, but weather being pleasant we didn't feel the warmth of the
sun. We reached. Hoopoes started appearing here and paddyfield pipits
were found roaming in the open lands searching for food. A Booted
Eagle made his entry and we started photographing same. An affinis
sub-species of Indian Roller was spotted here.
After lunch, we moved a little further to another open field.
Red-throated Flycatchers were in good numbers here and again Hoopoes
in numbers. It was around 3 or 3:30 when a Jackal came out in the open
from its hide-out and crossed the road. At 5:00pm when we were
planning to end our day,
thousands of Wagtails came from nowhere and covered the sky. Some sat
on the wire, some on the fields and many were moving from here to
there in different groups. Really an amazing sight to watch. Subhankar
da pointed out that he had seen such a phenomenon in Basipota many a
times and the numbers are even more there. Out of those thousand
wagtails which consisted of Citrine, Grey, Yellow and White, the major
part of the population was Citrine wagtail. A Common Stonechat ended
our day in a happy note and we started our journey back home.
Just to mention that due to lack of sufficient rainfall this year,
number of prinias, larks, zitting cisticolas were remarkably low. But
due to good bird, butterfly and odonate movement the trip was a real
success for all of us.
TEAM MEMBERS:-
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1. Subhankar Patra.
2. Sujit Das.
3. Raja Das.
4. Susanta Bagh.
5. Avisek Chatterjee.
6. Mousumi Tula.
7. Pradipto Bagchi.
8. Chinmoy Karati.
9. Mrinal Kole.
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. Rufous Woodpecker(2).
2. Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker(3).
3. Streak-throated Woodpecker(4).
4. Black-rumped Flameback(10).
5. Lineated Barbet(25).
6. Blue-throated Barbet(15).
7. Coppersmith Barbet(5).
8. Common Hoopoe(20).
9. Indian Roller(6).
10. Common Kingfisher(1).
11. White-throated Kingfisher(10).
12. Stork-billed Kingfisher(3).
13. Green Bee-eater(1).
14. Common-Hawk Cuckoo(15).
15. Asian Koel(6).
16. Greater Coucal(6).
17. Rose-ringed Parakeet(10).
18. House Swift(6).
19. Asian Palm Swift(70).
20. Spotted Owlet(2).
21. Large-tailed Nightjar(1).
22. Rock Pigeon(30).
23. Spotted Dove(30).
24. Eurasian Collared Dove(3).
25. White-breasted Waterhen(6).
26. Common Moorhen(2).
27. Bronze-winged Jacana(2).
28. Black-shouldered Kite(1).
29. Black Kite(10).
30. Crested Serpent Eagle(7).
31. Shikra(2).
32. Booted Eagle(1).
33. Oriental Honey Buzzard(2).
34. Little Cormorant(15).
35. Little Egret(1).
36. Cattle Egret(50).
37. Indian Pond Heron(15).
38. Black-crowned Night Heron(1).
39. Yellow Bittern(1).
40. Asian Openbill(2).
41. Brown Shrike(2)
42. Rufous Treepie(25).
43. House Crow(50).
44. Large-billed Crow(15).
45. Ashy Woodswallow(4).
46. Eurasian Golden Oriole(1).
47. Black-hooded Oriole(15).
48. White-throated Fantail(15).
49. Black Drongo(30).
50. Bronzed Drongo(15).
51. Ashy Drongo(1).
52. Common Iora(20).
53. Black-naped Monarch(2).
54. Red-throated Flycatcher(10).
55. Verditer Flycatcher(2).
56. Oriental Magpie Robin(8).
57. Common Stonechat(1).
58. Chestnut-tailed Starling(2).
59. Asian Pied Starling(30).
60. Jungle Myna(3).
61. Common Myna(50).
62. Great Tit(10)
63. Barn Swallow(5)
64. Red-rumped Swallow(4).
65. Red-vented Bulbul(50).
66. Red-whiskered Bulbul(20)
67. Plain Prinia(15).
68. Zitting Cisticola(2).
69. Blyth's Reed Warbler(4).
70. Yellow-browed Warbler(5).
71. Common Chiffchaff(3).
72. Greenish Warbler(5).
73. Common Tailorbird(20).
74. Jungle Babbler(50).
75. Rufous-winged Bushlark(1).
76. Pale-billed Flowerpecker(3).
77. Purple Sunbird(15).
78. Purple-rumped Sunbird(10).
79. House Sparrow(5).
80. White Wagtail(leucopsis). (About 1.5% of approx 1500 Wagtails)
81. Citrine Wagtail(calcarata).(About 75% of approx 1500 Wagtails)
82. Yellow Wagtail(beema). (About 12% of approx 1500 Wagtails)
83. Grey Wagtail. (About 1.5% of 1500 Wagtails)
84. Forest Wagtail(1).
85. Paddy-field Pipit(30).
86. White-rumped Munia(15).
BUTTERFLIES OBSERVED IN THE FIELD TRIP:-
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1. Common Rose(20).
2. Common Jay(1).
3. Tailed Jay(2).
4. Common Mime(2)(dissimilis).
5. Common Mormon(25).
6. Lime(8).
7. Common Wanderer(3).
8. Common Jezebel(3).
9. Psyche(15).
10. Striped Albatross(20).
11. Common Gull(1).
12. Common Emigrant(50).
13. Mottled Emigrant(25).
14. Common Grass Yellow(16).
15. Three-spot Grass Yellow(2).
16. Tawny Coster(1).
17. Common Castor(6).
18. Angled Castor(1).
19. Danaid Eggfly(1).
20. Great Eggfly(1).
21. Common Leopard(2).
22. Grey Pansy(5).
23. Peacock Pansy(1).
24. Common Sailor(2).
25. Chestnut-streaked Sailor(7).
26. Common Bushbrown(2).
27. Common Four Ring(3).
28. Common Evening Brown(1).
29. Common Palmfly(2).
30. Blue Tiger(1).
31. Plain Tiger(9).
32. Striped Tiger(6).
33. Common Crow(8).
34. Common Pierrot(2).
35. Quaker(12).
36. Common Hedge Blue(1).
37. Gram Blue(2).
38. Dark Grass Blue(1).
39. Tiny Grass Blue(5).
40. Ciliate Blue(1).
41. Tailless Line Blue(1).
42. Common Snow Flat(1).
43. Common Dartlet(1).
44. Chestnut Bob(2).
45. Paintbrush Swift(1).
DRAGONFLIES OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP:-
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1. Trumpet Tail(1).
2. Ditch Jewel(30).
3. Ruddy Marsh Skimmer(3).
4. Ground Skimmer(4).
5. Scarlet Marsh Hawk(1).
6. Fulvous Forest Hawk(1).
7. Green Marsh Hawk(5).
8. Wandering Glider(20).
9. Pied Paddy Skimmer(1).
10. Common Picture Wing(2).
11. Long-legged Marsh Glider(1).
12. Greater Crimson Glider(1).
DAMSELFLIES OBSERVED DURING THE TRIP:-
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1. Coromandel Marsh Dart(10).
2. Black Marsh Dart(10).
3. Pigmy Dartlet(4).
4. Senegal Golden Dartlet(4).
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.
MAMALS: - 4 SPECIES
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1. Five-stripped Palm Squirrel(6).
2. Hanuman Langur(7).
3. Jackal(1).
4. Grey Mongoose(1).
REPTILES: - 5 SPECIES
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1. Garden Lizard(4).
2. Bronze Grass Skink(1).
3. Keeled Grass Skink(1).
4. Yellow-green Gecko(1).
5. Water Monitor(1).
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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