Sundarban Bird Festival

Context: 

The first-ever Sundarban bird  festival was organized by the Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) division of the West Bengal Forest Department.

About Sundarban Bird Festival:

• Aim: To create a platform for knowledge-sharing and discussion on the future of conservation of the Sundarban birds. 
• Significance: The main reason for organizing such a festival is to record occurrence, distribution, and habitat preferences of some birds needing special attention which use Central Asian as their migration route in Asia while passing over the Sundarbans.

• A publication by Zoological Survey of India, (ZSI) in 2021, had recorded 428 bird species in the Sundarbans which is one third of all the avian species found in the country.

News Source: The Hindu 

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