Led By Biplab Banerjee
Last October, on the eve of Durga Puja, I went to South Andaman for a birding trip commencing on 3rd October 2024 and ended on 7th October, 2024. This tour was led by Shakti Vel- renowned bird tour operator in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Andaman is must visit destination for all bird enthusiasts since it’s home to around 30 endemic species including those found in Nicobar Island.
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
Author 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 our guest!
As you are all well aware, BWS has taken the initiative to create a not-so-dry database of birds and the obvious juice to that database is your beautiful and colourful photographs. Sadly, we don’t have all the bandwidth and all the cloud space in the world, hence it is necessary to perform some surgery on your photos and then deliver them to us. This will ensure that our resources are optimised. So, you need to snip your photos and size them up which in photographers’ language are cropping and resizing images.
So here is a small “guide” to introduce you to the world of cropping and resizing. After reading this, it would be a breeze to crop and resize the image to the desired ratio of 4:3 (1024×768).
Let’s start by understanding the basics of cropping and resizing images. These two techniques serve different purposes and are essential for effective image editing:
Led By Pampa Mistri / Priyam Chattopadhyay
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 North. The fisheries provide food to these species for fat-gaining during this temporary stop to allow them to have a healthy and long flight back to their lands.
GBBC India is the Indian implementation of the global Great Backyard Bird Count, which runs for 4 days every February. Indian birders have participated in the GBBC since the event went worldwide in 2013. The 2023 edition of GBBC engaged over 4,259 birders who uploaded over 53,000 checklists and recorded 1,072 species! Most importantly, it’s
Through the eyes of Canon A special workshop by Canon for the members of BWS. Venue: Canon Office / Time & Date: 3pm – 5pm on 17th Feb 2024 Followed by a field session on 18th Feb2024 at the Baruipur Marshes. Registration is compulsory.
