Abul Kalam Muhammad Azad .
Rajshahi | Update: 22:02, Mar 05, 2017
A bird, mostly found in desert
areas, has been sighted recently in Char areas of Padma river in Rajshahi.
The bird called Cyxer Ratchara is a bird with soft brown
and brown feathers and white feathers on its wings and tail as well. It is
about 21 to 23 centimetres long and can camouflage in nature easily.
The Bangladesh Bird Club and a
team of four British experts have found Cyxer
Ratchara in an island of Rajshahi this February. The bird experts said it
mainly roams in desert areas.
The British team members are Bill
Jones, Matt Pryor, Stephen Samwath and Din Ria.
They said the Cyxer Ratchara was never seen in
Bangladesh or West Bengal before. So, this new finding suggests that the
roaming area of this bird has doubled. Some endangered and rare breeds of birds
have been seen in this island of Rajshahi recently.
In assistance with the Bangladesh
Bird Club and the International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN)-Bangladesh, the British ornithologists (bird experts) visited Rajshahi
originally for collecting the DNA of Dholalege Shilafiddar, a bird that is
rarely seen.
New bird Cyxer Ratchara was caught in the net trap the ornithologists had
set to catch Dholalege Shilafiddar.
The team told Prothom Alo that an
unknown bird was caught in their net, but they never thought it could be a Cyxer Ratchara.
While they were fixing a ring on
its foot and measuring its body they felt that this could be a Cyxer Ratchara.
In order to make the thing sure,
they took its biometric information and also took some photos of its wings,
tail and throat and sent them to a number of bird experts in different
countries. Then the bird was released.
Bangladesh Bird Club
vice-president Tareq Anu who visited Rajshahi with the British team said all
the experts confirmed that this was indeed a Cyxer Ratchara.
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