Description
The Nature Mates Nature Club has released a dataset entitled "Avian diversity study (water birds) of Kamarganti Bheries, Haroa, North 24 parganas, West Bengal, India during winter season" Bheries are the type of fisheries generally practiced in low land impounded with earthen embankments all round. The age-old bheri culture has emerged in North 24 Parganas District in its south and eastern skirts centering the lower course of the Bidyadhari River. Salinity in bheri-water is sourced from brackish sea-water entered through rivers and canals.. In the south-eastern parts of present North 24 Parganas district-territory such type of aquaculture is found to be rehearsed particularly in the mudflats, swamps, marshes or paddy-fields centering the spill zones of the Bidyadhari River, where agricultural cultivation is not so viable due to want of suitable irrigable water. As a result, paddy cum fish and/ or shrimp culture was significantly developed in those low-lying areas The district falls within the new alluvium sub-region of the lower Gangetic Plain (Zone-III) and found to be very fertile for crop production. The main rivers are Ichhamati, Hooghly, Raimangal, Kalindi, Dansa, Benti, Haribhanga, Bidyadhari etc and the physiographic structure is mostly plain and the soils of the southern side are characterized with clay loam. The climate is featured with warm and humid tropical ones, south west monsoon usually from June to September, average annual rainfall 1750mm and mean temperature variation from 120C to 320C. The district has 22 community development (CD) blocks, though brackish water bheri fishery is usually found to exist in its 13 blocks in the south and eastern skirts. This dataset is concerned with one such area, Kamarganti,Haroa,North 24 Parganas. A list of all the birds identified during a biodiversity survey carried out in the year 2023 is included in the dataset. During the survey Red Necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) was recorded which is a very rare bird in West Bengal. Species or genus-level identifications have been made for every species. There are 42 bird species total, with records of them in 16 different families and 10 different orders. These bheries serve as resting grounds for water birds throughout their winter migratory path. This study can give a future scope in understanding how bheries affect the biodiversity of an area.
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 42 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, Samanta T, Sengupta N, Barve V (2024). Avian diversity study (water birds) of Kamarganti Bheries, Haroa, North 24 parganas, West Bengal, India during winter season. Version 1.5. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=kamarganti&v=1.5
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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: e8df6d79-7d90-4216-a3f6-382ddf2d0d6c. 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
Kamarganti Bheries, Haroa, North 24 parganas, West Bengal, India
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [22.525, 88.634], North East [22.557, 88.675] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
A list of all the birds identified during a biodiversity survey carried out in 10th of Aril 2023 is included in the dataset. During the survey Red Necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) was recorded which is a very rare bird in West Bengal. All the birds are identified up to the species level. There are 42 bird species total, with records of them in 16 different families and 10 different orders.
| Class | Aves (Birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 2023-04-10 |
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Sampling Methods
Point Count The data were recorded using the point count method from multiple points within the study area.
| Study Extent | Kamarganti Bheries, Haroa, North 24 parganas, West Bengal, India |
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Method step description:
- Direct observation, Call identification, Field notes, Photography Equipment used are binocular Olympus (10*50 DPS I ) Camera (Nikon Coolpix P900, P600, B600). Observed data were recorded in the field notebook
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.
- 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. 2023. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [20/03/2024].
Additional Metadata
| Purpose | This study can give a future scope in understanding how bheries affect the biodiversity of an area. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | e8df6d79-7d90-4216-a3f6-382ddf2d0d6c |
| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=kamarganti |