{"id":226092,"date":"2023-02-11T19:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=226092"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:19:27","slug":"sundarban-bird-festival-145-bird-species-spotted-during-the-first-bird-festival-in-sundarbans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sundarban-bird-festival-145-bird-species-spotted-during-the-first-bird-festival-in-sundarbans\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundarban Bird Festival: 145 bird species spotted during the first bird festival in Sundarbans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>145 bird species spotted during the first bird festival in Sundarbans<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>11th February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birders, wildlife enthusiasts and forest officials have sighted 145 different bird species during the first Sundarban Bird Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sundarban Bird Festival<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the first-ever festival organized by the Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) division of the West Bengal Forest Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species recorded during the Bird Festival included 78 forest birds and 42 species of waders, raptors etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the birds spotted during the festival are Eurasian Curlew (Near Threatened), Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker (Least Concern), Lesser Sandplover (Least Concern) among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sunderbans<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sunderbans-biosphere-reserve\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sundarbans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a cluster of low-lying islands in the Bay of Bengal, spread across India and Bangladesh, famous for its unique mangrove forests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sunderban forest in India is divided into the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve and 24 Parganas (South) Forest Division, and together with the forest in Bangladesh is the only mangrove forest in the world where tigers are found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A publication by the Zoological Survey of India(ZSID) in 2021 recorded 428 bird species in the Sundarbans which is one-third of all the avian species found in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite being home to so many species of birds, the habitats face threats including plantation activity along the chars (river islands) which disturbs the birds, and illegal activities along chars and uninhabited islands.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201c145 bird species spotted during the first bird festival in Sundarbans\u201d published in The Hindu on 11th February 2023. What is the News? Birders, wildlife enthusiasts and forest officials have sighted 145 different bird species during the first Sundarban Bird Festival. About Sundarban Bird Festival It is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sundarban-bird-festival-145-bird-species-spotted-during-the-first-bird-festival-in-sundarbans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sundarban Bird Festival: 145 bird species spotted during the first bird festival in Sundarbans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-226092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}