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KOKRAJHAR: As many as fifteen students of the Zoology Department of Bodoland University successfully completed the ‘Campus Bird Count’ recently. The Campus Bird Count is a sub-event of the larger Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). It is a coordinated effort to document the birdlife in multiple campuses across India.
The programme included campuses of educational and training institutions, government institutions, research stations, corporate campuses, etc. GBBC India is the Indian implementation of the global GBBC, which runs for four days every February. Indian birders have been participating in the GBBC since the event went worldwide in 2013.
GBBC India is coordinated by the BIRD COUNT INDIA collective which supports listing and monitoring of birds in India, from individuals maintaining their bird lists, to groups of students or birders monitoring local birds, to large India-wide projects to document the abundance and distribution of species. It engages with citizen scientists (birdwatchers) across the country to generate both informal (casual birding) and formal (systematic surveys and monitoring) data on birds and converts this data into knowledge.
Prof Hilloljyoti Singha, Director, Centre for Wildlife Research & Biodiversity Conservation, asserted that altogether 36 bird species, including 10 migratory species, were recorded during one-hour bird watching for each of the three days in the BU campus. Common Myna and Red-vented Bulbul were the most abundant species, while Greenish Warbler, Gray-headed Canary Flycatcher, and Taiga Flycatcher were rare winter visitors in the campus.
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