Rapid Documentation Avifaunal Diversity of Buxa Tiger Reserve, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India

The dataset “Rapid Documentation Avifaunal Diversity of Buxa Tiger Reserve, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India” is published by Nature Mates Nature Club

Buxa Tiger Reserve is a tiger reserve and national park lies in the Alipurduar district of northern West Bengal, India, covering an area of 760 km2.

Buxa Tiger Reserve was created in 1983 as the 15th tiger reserve in India. In 1986, Buxa Wildlife Sanctuary constituted over 314.52 km2 of the reserve forests. In 1991, 54.47 km2 was added to Buxa Wildlife Sanctuary. A year later, in 1992, the Government of West Bengal declared its intentions to constitute a national park over 117.10 km2 of the Buxa Wildlife Sanctuary. State government finally declared the national park with notification No.3403-For/11B-6/95 dt. 05.12.1997.

Buxa Tiger Reserve(BTR) lies in Alipurduar district of West Bengal. Its northern boundary runs along the international border with Bhutan

It is the easternmost extension of extreme bio-diverse North-East India and represents highly endemic Indo-Malayan region. The fragile "Terai Eco-System" constitutes a part of this reserve. The Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary of Bhutan is contiguous to the north of BTR. Manas National Park lies on east of BTR. BTR, thus, serves as an international corridor for Asian elephant migration between India and Bhutan. To the south-west, the Chilapata Forests form an elephant corridor to the Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary.

The forest type of the reserve includes : Northern dry deciduous, Eastern Bhabar and Terai sal, East Himalayan moist mixed deciduous forest, Sub-Himalayan secondary wet mixed forest, Eastern sub-montane semi-evergreen forest, Northern tropical evergreen forest, East Himalayan subtropical wet hill forest, Moist sal savannah, Low alluvium, Savannah woodland.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buxa_Tiger_Reserve, http://www.wildbengal.com/buxa.php).The main species constitutes trees like Sal, Champ, Gamar, Simul, Chikrasi. 

The climate of the reserve is mostly humid subtropical with hot summers and cool winters. The monsoon season begins in June and lasts until September, bringing heavy rainfall to the region. (https://www.studyiq.com/articles/buxa-tiger-reserve/)

So far 352 species of trees, 133 species of shrubs, 189 species of herbs, 108 species of climbers, 144 species of orchids, 46 species of grasses,16 species of sedges, 6 species of canes and 4 species of bamboos have been reported. Buxa has a good faunal diversity. As many as 68 species of mammals, 41 species of reptiles, more than 246 species of birds, 4 species of Amphibians along with 103 species of fishes and around 500 species of insects have been recorded.(https://ntca.gov.in/assets/uploads/briefnote/buxa.pdf)

This dataset enlists all the birds identified during a biodiversity survey conducted in the year 2016

Species or genus-level identifications have been made for every species. There are  bird  species total, with records of them in different families and different orders.

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