nature quest
Nature Quest: The Jacobin’s Bangladeshi summer
A visitor bird and seen often during summer, the Jacobin Cuckoo has made yet another appearance in Bangladesh during it’s mating season.
Nature Quest / The city's 'first' shade of purple
For the first time in a generation, a rare Purple Heron was spotted near a lake in the capital. These birds of Bangladesh are seen only occasionally in the reed beds of large fresh-water lakes called haors.
Flocks of monochrome
With the arrival of winter, the shallow waters and narrowing width of the mighty Padma becomes host to a number of animals in search of the nutrition it provides.
Hazarikhil Wildlife Sanctuary: Plan to build road without clearance
The Roads and Highways Department is razing parts of Hazarikhil Wildlife Sanctuary in Chattogram to build a 12km road without assessing its environmental impact or obtaining permission from the environment ministry.
The Woolyneck comes home
At the beginning of the 20th century, the globally vulnerable Asian-Woolynecked stork had begun disappearing from East Bengal, now Bangladesh, after which the Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh termed this species of stork “a former visitor of Bangladesh”.
Nature Quest / The fort of the Alexandrine
A centuries-old Mahogany tree, bearing ancient stories of the now abandoned Balihar Zamindar Kachari Bari of Bogura's Shahjahanpur upazila, remains a palace of sorts to the widely beloved Alexandrine parakeet, or Chandana tia in Bangla.
Nature Quest: Exotic Grey Peacock
The Grey Peacock Pheasant can be found strutting across the forest floors of Fatikchhari. The bird is rare in Bangladesh and seen in the
Nature Quest: A sign hard to fathom
The Kotka beach in the Sundarbans is mostly empty apart from the plastic bottles and trash that wash ashore. Imagine the shock of forest guards who stumbled upon the rotting carcass of a 40-foot whale while patrolling the beach in August.
Nature Quest: Flames of the cannon
Even though the zamindar of Mymensingh's Shashi Lodge area, which is now under the care of the Archeological Department, left about seven decades ago, some of the treasures they left behind still attract passers-by enough to go inside and take a peek.
Nature Quest: Into those 'white eyes'
The magnificence of the Oriental White-eye lies exactly where the name suggests. The round, white orbs nestling the iris, looking
Nature Quest: Elongated tortoise, shrinking habitat
The elongated tortoise is a species of tortoise once found in different areas of the country including Sylhet.
Nature Quest: Liliums blooming in Bangladesh
The first batch of Lilium flowers has been commercially farmed in two locations in Bangladesh -- Jhenidah and Dhaka.
Nature Quest: Bond with the birds
Raba Begum, headmaster of Jogiborth Govt Primary School in Nodiachad Baor of Alfadanga upazila in Faridpur, transitions into a
Nature Quest: A quest for eagle nest
Cool morning air brushed against my face as I looked at the plains where countrymen were out on their fields--plowing, irrigating, or
New species of white bellied drongo found
A species of drongo, not seen by experts in the country before, has been spotted in Rajshahi city's Shimla Park recently.
Nature Quest: Padma banks painted red
A large flock of very rare and colourful birds has brightened the banks of Padma river near Rajshahi City recently. The birds called Painted Stork thronged the shallows and shoals before the birdwatchers and photographers of the city.
Nature Quest: Dredger danger for dolphins
At least 16 dolphins (Platanista Gangetica) have been found dead in the last three months in the Halda, according to data found primarily by Halda River Research Institute.
Madan Tak gives birth in captivity
The birth by a Madan Tak (Lesser Adjutant Stork) to four hatchlings over the past two months has elated officials and employees of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur.
Marbled cats still exist in Srimangal
Unlike usual stories of animals nearing extinction, the forests of Moulvibazar brought forth an entirely different tale a couple of years ago.