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
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
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
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“Spotted Flycatcher is passage migrant which spend few weeks in Western India in monsoon during their pathway to wintering in Africa. It’s bit strange to see this bird wintering in India, specially in the eastern part of the country. Probably this is the first record from West Bengal.” Observer: Sumanta Pramanick Species: Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa