Avian diversity study of Kharibari Wetland and its adjacent Bheries, Kamduni, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India (Q8663)

The dataset Avian diversity study of Kharibari Wetland and its adjacent Bheries, Kamduni, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India is published by Nature Mates Nature Club The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) defines wetland as, a place in which the land is covered by water salt, fresh or somewhere in between either seasonally or permanently. It functions as its distinct ecosystem. Bheries are the type of fisheries generally practiced in low land impounded with earthen embankments all round. The age-old bheri-culture has emerged in North 24 Parganas District in its south and eastern skirts centering the lower course of the Bidyadhari River. Salinity in bheri-water is sourced from brackish sea-water entered through rivers and canals. Kolkata has several wetlands in its vicinity and one of them is the Kamduni wetlands of Kharibari, near Barasat. The wetland and bheries of Kharibari is a visiting spot for many local and migratory birds. Some of these birds are from the Himalayan foothills, others travel from central Asia. During spring, the waters in the wetlands recede making food easily available for the water birds. This attracts a host of long and short-distance migrant birds along with local birds. This dataset includes all the birds recorded from kamduni wetlands of kharibari and the bheries present in the vicinity. A list of all the birds identified during a biodiversity survey carried out between November 2017 to April 2018 is included in this dataset. All the birds have been identified upto species level. There are 56 bird species total, with records of them in 18 different families and 10 different orders. Resource Contacts Name: Arjan Basu Roy Position: Secretary Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032 Email: basuroyarjan@gmail.com Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9872-3562 Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/ Name: Lina Chatterjee Position: Research Associate Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032 Email: lina.linachatterjee@gmail.com Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5626-5046 Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/ Name: Tarak Samanta Position: Research Associate Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032 Email: taraksamanta995@gmail.com Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6809-0549 Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/ Name: Nivedita Sengupta Position: Intern Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032 Email: niveditasngpta.ns@gmail.com Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-7385 Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/ Name: Vijay Barve Position: Research Advisor Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032 Email: vijay.barve@gmail.com Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567 Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/