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.
It was a race against time to secure a spot. The call for action had barely begun before the limited seats were filled! The next announcement from the organisers came about engaging the professional services of Zigzag India Tours, represented by Soumya Kundu (a fellow birder & member of BWS). As D-Day came by, 21 members boarded the bus from Kolkata
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!
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.
প্রিয় কবির ১২৫ তম জন্মশতবার্ষিকী পালন এবং তার প্রিয় গ্রামবাংলার পাখপাখালিদের কথা মাথায় রেখে, তাদের সুস্থ পরিবেশে বাঁচিয়ে রাখার অঙ্গীকার নিয়ে আগামী ২৮ শে জানুয়ারী, রবিবার বার্ড-ওয়াচারর্স সোসাইটি এবং বন ফাউন্ডেশনের তত্বাবধানে সানপুকুর শক্তি সংঘের পরিচালনায় বটতলা প্রাঙ্গণে অনুষ্ঠিত হতে চলেছে বসে আঁকো প্রতিযোগিতা। সময়: দুপুর ১২ টা।
Rs. 5250 per head + shared boat charges for the Jambudwip boat tour (approx. Rs. 250 per head)
[Rs. 3000 to be paid as a non-refundable advance to secure the seat. Balance to be paid one day before the start of the tour.]
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 of the hospital along with their families. The lecture on 21st was to be followed by a bird walk by BWS on 22nd January in Newtown, Rajarhat.