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Bangladesh

Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia ŠLaurence Poh http://www.laurencepoh.com/

You will notice that there is no introduction to this section yet.

I would like to fill this gap with an introduction from a local birder [or someone who is a frequent visitor] for every on of the geographical pages. The many thousands of birders now regularly using these pages prefer to read something written by someone who can see the place from an insider's point of view. They know the best spots, not just the ones that first time overseas visitors usually visit or that are on the normal birding trip itineraries.

Each introduction carries the e-mail address of the contributor so that birders can get in touch with them if, for example, they are planning a trip [unless the contributor is unable to do this].

Please get in touch if you feel you can contribute an introduction to this page - you don't have to be an expert; I'm not!

numbers

Number of bird species:686

useful reading

* Field Guides & Bird Song

For a comprehensive list of recommended titles covering Asia as a whole - please see the Asia page of Fatbirder

A Field Guide to Birds of the Indian Subcontinent

Krys Kazmierczak, Ber van Perlo (Illustrator) Hardcover - 336 pages (30 May, 2000) The Pica Press
ISBN: 1873403798
Buy this book from NHBS.com

A Photographic Guide to Birds of India

[Including Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Bhutan] Bikram Grewal, Bill Harvey and Otto Pfister 512 pages, 850 col photos, 800 maps. Christopher Helm
ISBN: 0713664037
Buy this book from NHBS.com

Helm Identification Guides: Birds of the Indian Subcontinent

Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp Hardcover - 888 pages (30 November, 1998) Christopher Helm
ISBN: 0713640049
Buy this book from NHBS.com

useful information

National Bird

Oriental Magpie Robin - Copsychus saularis

Proact

Coordinator: Zakir Hossain
Members: 4
Join us at http://www.proact-campaigns.net/team
Contact your coordinator via mailto:info@proact-campaigns.net

clubs

Bangladesh Bird Club

Mr. Enam Ul Haque - Bangladesh Bird Club - House # 55 B, Street #2 - Banani DOHS, Dhaka 1206, BANGLADESH Tel: 8802 9881747, 8802 9344630 Fax: 8802 8317009, 8802 8319788 No website as yet so email: enam.gqi@gq-group.com

reserves

Sundarbans National Park

http://www.the-south-asian.com/Nov2002/Sundarbans.htm
The Sajnakhali area contains a wealth of water birds, noteworthy residents including Asian openbill stork Anastomus oscitans, black-necked stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, greater adjutant Leptoptilos dubius(E); white ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus, swamp francolin Francolinus gularis, white-collared kingfisher Halcyon chloris, black-capped kingfisher H. pileata and brown-winged kingfisher Pelargopsis amauroptera. This area is important for waders, including the Asian dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus(R); a rare winter migrant. Interesting marsh birds found in the reclaimed areas include egrets Egretta alba, E. garzetta and E. intermedia, purple heron Ardea purpurea (a rare vagrant from Africa) and green-backed heron Butorides striatus, while birds of prey include osprey Pandion haliaetus, Pallas`s sea-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus (R); white-bellied sea-eagle H. leucogaster, grey-headed fishing eagle Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, Oriential hobby F. severus, northern eagle owl Bubo bubo and brown fish owl Ketupa zeylonensis. A variety of terns (Sterna and other genera) and kingfishers are seen on the large rivers and in flooded areas (Mukherjee, 1975). Other details of the avifauna are given by Law (1954, 1956).

Sundarbans National Park

http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/sundarba.html
This site is about the Indian part of the reserve in West Bengal...

The Sundarbans

http://www.betelco.com/bd/sundar/sundar.html
In the south western part of Bangladesh, in the district of greater Khulna, lies the Sundarbans, the beautiful forest. It is a virgin forest which until recently owed nothing to human endeavour and yet nature has laid it out with as much care as a planned pleasure ground. For miles and miles, the lofty treetops form an unbroken canopy, while nearer the ground, works of high and ebb-tide marked on the soil and tree trunks and the many varieties of the natural mangrove forest have much to offer to an inquisitive visitor...

Wetlands

http://www.ramsar.org
Bangladesh presently has 2 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance, with a surface area of 605,500 hectares...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you cant find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page give them a try!

tour operators

Bengal Tours Ltd

http://www.bengaltours.com/index.html#
The Bengal Tours Ltd, is an upcoming tour operator and travel agency in the private sector located in Dhaka. We are a group of tourism professionals, who constitute the The Bengal Tours Ltd and committed to extend our best assistance to our clients, coming from all over the world and from the local market. The Bengal Tours Ltd, was launched in eptember,1999 ;but within this short span of time, our Company earned remarkable momentum by way of providing various services to our clients. It may kindly be noted that we are mainly acting as tour operator and ground handling agent and our expertise in conducting various tour programmes at unbeatable rates has already earned us a very good reputation with our clients both at home and abroad...

Birding Pal

http://www.birdingpal.org/Bangladesh.htm
Local birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...

Bangladesh Sundarbans as Wildlife Habitat

http://whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/798.pdf
The Sundarbans, the 10,000 km2 mangrove forest on the southern edge of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Menhga delta in India and Bangladesh, is an open, dynamic, heterogeneous ecological system that is resilient to disturbance from within the forest and waterways, but sensitive to disturbance from the outside, particularly to changes in the flow of fresh water...

Birds of Bangladesh

http://virtualbangladesh.com/bd_geog_birds.html
The Doel or the magpie robin is the national bird of Bangladesh. The Shalik is a very common bird in Bangladesh. The Machhhranga or the kingfisher is very common in riverine Bangladesh. As many as ten species can be found. The Kaththokra or the woodpecker can be found in twenty two species in the country, especially in the Sundarbans.

BLOG - Nisargo

http://www.nisargo.blogspot.com
A Bangla blog for the nature of Bangladesh

Nature of Bangladesh

http://bdbirds.blogspot.com

The Birds of Bangladesh

http://www.bdnature.blogspot.com

The Resilient Birds of Bangladesh

http://www.un-bd.org/unwa/HomePage/Publications/womun-vol27/0205/p16-birds.htm
...there are good reasons for a Bangladeshi to be proud of the great variety of birds of this country. Bangladesh is still rich as far as the diversities of birds are concerned...