Description
The dataset “Rapid Documentation Of Avifaunal Diversity of Chilapata Forest, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India” is published by Nature Mates Nature Club. The Chilapata Forest is a densely wooded area located in close proximity to the Jaldapara National Park within the Dooars region of the Alipurduar district in West Bengal, India. Because it connects Jaldapara National Park and the Buxa Tiger Reserve with an elephant corridor, this forest is important. The Chilapata forest encompasses a significant area next to the Bania and Torsha rivers, which contribute to the forest's preservation and the sustenance of its grassland ecosystem and diverse array of plant and animal species by supplying fresh monsoon water. Chilapata is home to a diverse range of wildlife, including elephants, gaur, cheetal, sambar, deer, one-horned rhinoceros, leopards, and wild boars. Aside from that, Chilapata is well-known for its large diversity of butterflies and is home to many species of snakes including the King Cobra. The presence of a watchtower situated in the Chilapata forest adjacent to the Torsha river, facilitates the opportunity to engage in wildlife observation, particularly of wild elephants, gaur, and one-horned rhinoceros. In addition, the woodland also harbours an extensive variety of avian species. The dataset presented below compiles a comprehensive record of avian species observed during a field excursion to Chilapata Forest in the calendar year of 2015. All the birds have been categorised and recognised at either the species or genus taxonomic rank. The avian taxonomic group is varied, consisting of 98 species that are categorised into 43 families and 12 orders.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence 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 101 records.
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.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Basu Roy A, Chatterjee L, Basu Roy R, Samanta T, Sengupta N, Barve V (2024). Rapid Documentation Of Avifaunal Diversity of Chilapata Forest, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India. Version 1.1. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=chilapata_2023_birds&v=1.1
Rights
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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: 1322fa24-0aab-45ea-9c4c-aae20abead75. Nature Mates-Nature Club publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
Chilapata Forest, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [26.53, 89.199], North East [26.704, 89.547] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All the birds have been categorised and recognised at either the species or genus taxonomic rank. The avian taxonomic group is varied, consisting of 98 species that are categorised into 43 families and 12 orders.
| Class | Aves (Birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2015-01-01 / 2015-12-31 |
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Sampling Methods
Random
| Study Extent | Chilapata Forest, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India Equipment used are binocular Olympus (10*50 DPS I ) Camera (Nikon Coolpix P900, P600, B600). Observed data were recorded in the field notebook. |
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Method step description:
- Direct observation, Call identification, Field notes, Photography
Bibliographic Citations
- Grimmett R, Inskipp C, Inskipp T (2016) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [01/09/2023].
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 1322fa24-0aab-45ea-9c4c-aae20abead75 |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=chilapata_2023_birds |