00:00About 50 years later, grass grew in the sky.
00:04The Maldivians were amazed to see this scene.
00:07The Australian grass owl was seen on the banks of the Ganga River in Maldives.
00:11Last March 9, a group of birdwatchers
00:15took a picture of the Australian grass owl on the banks of the Ganga River in Maldives.
00:19It was possible to discover it due to the four-month-old bird species
00:24that the Maldives Department of Conservation is investigating.
00:27During the investigation conducted by the Maldives Department of Conservation,
00:30the Maldives Green Papers India and the Kolkata Bird Watchers Society
00:36recorded the picture of this species of bird for the first time on 9 March 2025
00:42with Mr. Sandeep Das, Mr. Arup Sarkar and Mr. Saikat Das.
00:46It is known that there is a very low record of this species of bird in the western Bengal.
00:53In 1980, the famous birdwatcher Ajay Homer's famous bird was published.
00:59He described the situation of this peacock.
01:07The Maldives Department of Conservation, Jiju Jasper, knows
01:11We got the first photographic evidence of the Australian grass owl in West Bengal, Maldives.
01:19We have been conducting a survey for four months on the banks of the Ganga River.
01:26The last survey was conducted on 9th.
01:30We have got a team of three birds.
01:34To confirm this, we went to the Maldives Department of Conservation,
01:39the Maldives Green Papers India and the Kolkata Bird Watchers Society
01:45We went to that place and verified.
01:48Which place is this?
01:50I won't tell you the place.
01:52This is also in the Ganga River.
01:55I have found two birds today.
01:59I found this bird only in the North East.
02:03There was a record of distribution in West Bengal in 1920.
02:09There was a record in Shantiniketan in 1980.
02:13But there is no photographic evidence.
02:17No one has seen this.
02:19I saw this for the first time and took a picture.
02:23How did you identify this?
02:26There is photographic evidence.
02:29We have a guidebook.
02:31There are various bird experts with me.
02:34They have identified this.
02:36About 100 years ago, the British, along with Maldives,
02:40have seen this distribution in many places.
02:44It has been reported that there is no such thing.
02:48Last February, three Australian birds were caught
02:52by bird lovers near the Maldives' Farakka dam.
02:56Their food is either foreign tik-tik and other pokamakor.
03:01They have not been seen for a long time.
03:04They usually live on the land covered with big trees or by the river.
03:09For the last few decades,
03:11the river has been cutting the soil on the banks of the river
03:14and making it dirty.
03:16The amount of land covered with big trees is also decreasing.
03:20That is why, the birds of the big species like grasshopper
03:24have gone on the path of extinction.
03:26Remember, bird lovers.
03:28But again, bird lovers are happy to see this bird fly in the sky.
03:35Bureau Report, One India Bangla
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