Faunal diversity study of Rabindra Sarobar (Dhakuria Lake), Kolkata, West Bengal, India

The faunal diversity Study of Rabindra Sarobar (Dhakuria Lake), Kolkata, West Bengal, India was conducted by Tarak Samanta, Lina Chatterjee, Asim Giri and Nivedita Sengupta on 11th February 2021 and 8th May 2023. The identification and data analysis was done by Nature Mates-Nature Club team.
This dataset covers the areas of Rabindra Sarobar (Dhakuria Lake). Habitats are like a large waterbody with surrounding many old tree patches and gardens.  
All the species are tried to be identified up to the species level. A total of 70 faunal species were recorded belonging to 23 orders, and.40 families.
Contacts
1) Name: Tarak Samanta
Position: Research Associate
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email: taraksamanta995@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6809-0549
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/
2) Name: Asim Giri
Position: Field Assistant
Organization: Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park
Email: giriasim2013@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4450-3609
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org
3) Name: Nivedita Sengupta
Position: Research Associate
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email: niveditasngpta.ns@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-7385
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/
Name: Arjan Basu Roy
Position: Secretary
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email: basuroyarjan@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9872-3562
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/
4) Name: Lina Chatterjee
Position: Research Associate
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email: lina.linachatterjee@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5626-5046
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/

5) Name: Vijay Barve
Position: Research Advisor
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email: vijay.barve@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/


Geographic coverage:
Location/study area:.Rabindra sarobar (Dhakuria Lake), West Bengal, India
Coordinates: Rabindra sarobar (Dhakuria Lake), (22.511N-88.356E)

Temporal coverage
Begin: 2021-02-11, 2023-05-08 
End: 

Method
Method step: Direct observation, Call identification, Field notes, Photography
Sampling: Random
Description: The collection of data is obtained by the Random observation method throughout this area. 
Equipment used are binocular Olympus (10*50 DPS I) Camera (Nikon Coolpix P900, P600, B600). Observed data were recorded in the field notebook.


Bibliography:
Grimmett R, Inskipp C, Inskipp T (2016) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Bloomsbury Publishing. 
 
eBird. (2022). eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org

IUCN. (2022). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org
Mistry, D., & Basu, R. (2014). Status of Physical Environment and Land use Pattern in Rabindra Sarobar Lake Area of Kolkata. International Journal of Social Science, 3, 311.
Saha, T., Roy, A., & Ghosh, P.B. (2005).  Ecology of Bacterioplankton in a Nationally important Lake, Rabindra Sarobar in Kolkata. Asian Jr. of Microbiol. Biotech. & Env. Sc. 7(4): 717-722.

Besides this readme txt file the dataset includes images (photographs) and comma-delimited text (csv) file