The BWS Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2024 was held on Sunday, 1st September, at the DB Block community hall near the BWS office in Salt Lake. For members outside Kolkata, there was an option to attend the AGM live via Zoom, in addition to attending in person Apart from Secretary and Treasurer, several committee members
Birders and nature lovers of diverse feathers flocked to Kolkata to celebrate the first-ever Bengal Birders’ Meet on 22nd July 2024. Although the cloudy Monday morning cast a gloomy shadow over the city, it could not deter the arrival of birders from various parts of the state. All flyways converged at the main auditorium of
BWS organised a public Bird Walk at Rabindra Sarovar on Sunday, the 18th of August,2024 ebird Link: https://ebird.org/checklist/S191858481 https://ebird.org/checklist/S191858510
SRIJAN ROY CHOUDHURY ANNWOY ROY CHOUDHURY This is one of those surgery tutorials (of images) you should try at your own risk. Our beloved BWS or us, will not be responsible for the result. After reading the violent title and the stern legal disclaimer, if you are still interested in getting on with it, be
The fisheries of our Greater Kolkata in the far South East of West Bengal form a very integral part of our ecosystem. It is a fragile, human-linked habitat providing a stop-over site for a variety of species in thousands of numbers every year at the time of return migration to their breeding territories in the
R Karthikeyan, a biologist of NGO Arulagam, which is involved in vulture conservation in Southern India, was birding at Kurichi lake, when he noticed the wader bird at 6.30 am on Friday and he photographed the bird after one hour and recorded it in e-bird portal.
On the 21st of January, 2023, one of our founding members, Dr.Kanad Baidya along with another member Mr Mainak Das held a talk about birds in the auditorium of the Tata Medical Centre, in Newtown, Rajarhat. Kanad had been invited by his senior, Dr.Bipradas Roy, a gastrointestinal oncologist. The target audience was the doctor community
আমরা যারা বার্ডিং করি,ফিল্ডে প্যাঁচা দেখলে তাকে উপেক্ষা করে এগিয়ে যেতে পারি এরকম সাধ্য কতজনের আছে! অন্তত মিনিটখানেক হলেও আমরা থমকে দাঁড়াই। তা সে আগে যতবার খুশি মোলাকাতই হোকনা কেন। এবারে যদি সেই প্যাঁচারা দলবলবেঁধে আপনার পড়ার ঘরে ঢুকেপড়ে তাহলে কেমন হবে! এই ধরুন আপনি গল্প, উপন্যাস, ছড়া, কবিতা, প্যারোডি, লিমেরিক, ভূত-প্রেত, গোয়েন্দা, রহস্য-রোমাঞ্চ, রূপকথা,