Category: Sundarbans

Categories: Brown-winged Kingfisher, Collared Kingfisher, Common Redshank, Eurasian Curlew, Hoopoe, India, Jungle Babbler, Lesser Adjutant, Little Cormorant, Oriental Magpie-Robin, Osprey, Purple Sunbird, Sundarbans Posted on

Birds in Sundarban’s Mangrove Forest

The birds of Sundarbans National Park deserve their own post. Here in the world’s most extensive mangrove forest, kingfishers, waders and storks forage at low tide on the abundant invertebrates. Among the kingfishers, the rare Brown-winged Kingfisher specializes in mangrove and tidal river habitats along … Continue readingBirds in Sundarban’s Mangrove Forest

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Sundarbans: World-Class Mangroves!

Sundarbans National Park protects the world’s most extensive mangrove forest––3900 square miles of mangroves!––located in the delta of the combined Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers. About a third of the mangroves are in neighboring Bangladesh. Both governments are committed on paper to preserving this important coastal … Continue readingSundarbans: World-Class Mangroves!