Description
The Avifaunal diversity study of Banabitan, Bidhanagar, 2018 is published by Nature Mates Nature Club. Banabitan is an urbanized park located in the centre of Salt Lake City, is the second largest park in Kolkata. It is maintained under the Urban Recreation Forestry Division, Directorate of Forest, Government of West Bengal. It covers an area of about 100 acres. Urban ecosystems depend on land usage and other multiple factors. With the increase in urbanization parks, gardens inside the city play a very important role in maintaing natural vegetation and sustainig its biodiversity. Large areas covered with trees are a good habitat for avian diversity. For this reason Banabitan (Central Park) which is surronded by large trees and diverse species of herbs and shrubs along with a water body situated at the centre of the park which is partially covered with Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), acts as a home not only to many resident birds but also to many migratory birds. We are thankful to the forest department for giving us the opportunity to work at Banabitan since long. The respected CF, and DFO sirs of Urban Recreation Forestry Division are specially mentioned here for their unconditional support and guidance. The study was carried out for 12 months starting from January 2018 to December 2018. All the species are identified up to genus or species level. A total of 72 species of birds belonging to 34 families and 15 orders were recorded. This dataset also includes life stage, habitat, activity of birds along with its season when it is observed, which is divided as Summer(March-Jul), Monsoon(July-October), Winter(November-February). Most of the birds recorded were residential, few were winter migrant and only one summer migrant Plaintive Cuckoo, Cacomantis merulinus (Scopoli, 1786)
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 48 records.
2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Basu Roy A, Chatterjee L, Roy C, Basu Roy R, Samanta T, Sengupta N, Barve V (2023). Avifaunal diversity study of Banabitan, Bidhanagar, 2018. Version 1.1. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Samplingevent dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=banabitan_2018&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Nature Mates-Nature Club. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 17eb992b-f494-482b-b8b0-c286130080fc. Nature Mates-Nature Club publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Sampling event
Contacts
- Originator ●
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- 6/7 Bijoygarh
- 98743 57414
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9872-3562
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Research Associate
- Originator
- Research Affiliate
- 6/7 Bijoygarh
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Geographic Coverage
The study was carried out in Banabitan (Central Park), North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. It covers an area of about 100 acres surrounded by big trees, herbs and shrubs along with a big water body located at the center of the park.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [22.584, 88.413], North East [22.591, 88.42] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All the species are identified up to genus or species level. A total of 72 species of birds belonging to 34 families and 15 orders were recorded.
| Class | Aves (Bird) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2018-01-09 / 2018-12-21 |
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Sampling Methods
Random sampling In each month four surveys were conducted covering a distance of 1.5 km by foot. Equipment used are binocular Olympus (10*50 DPS I ) Camera (Nikon Coolpix P900, P600, B600). Observed data were recorded in the field notebook.
| Study Extent | The study was carried out in Banabitan (Central Park), North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. It covers an area of about 100 acres surrounded by big trees, herbs and shrubs along with a big water body located at the centre of the park which is partially filled up by Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) |
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Method step description:
- Direct observation, Call identification, Field notes, Photography
Bibliographic Citations
- Chatterjee L, Basu Roy A, Panja B (2022) Howrah Jelar Pakhi. Citadel Publishing. 2022 https://naturematesindia.org/product/howrah-zilar-pakhi/
- Grimmett R, Inskipp C, Inskipp T (2016) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- eBird. 2022. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org
- IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org
Additional Metadata
| Purpose | The purpose of this dataset is to study the importance of an urban park in sustaining avian diversity in a city, also to observe seasonal diversity of birds. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 17eb992b-f494-482b-b8b0-c286130080fc |
| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=banabitan_2018 |