Kolkata gets a Pakhibitan in eco-park of New Town where you can watch birds

Kolkata now can boast of a new destination to make friends of the feathered kind, it is the latest addition to the city's landscape - it is Pakhibitan created on a 5-acre "mini-marsh" and home to migratory and other birds and many insects and snakes. This unique location is the patch of wetlands situated within the 480-acre Eco Park in New Town.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 2 January 2015.

It has made a promising debut as a bird-watching venue for bird watchers with sightings of black bittern, cinnamon bittern, plaintive cuckoo and striated grassbird apart from a pied cuckoo, and a migratory bird in the area a couple of months back.
Rajarhat has more of greenery and less concrete when compared with other parts of the city and the grasslands attract the birds. Obviously in due course, the variety and number of birds will increase.
There is a bamboo walkway that runs through the wetland patch towards a hide, also made of bamboo, with retractable windows. The surrounding fauna has the damselfly, jumping spider and the buff-striped keelback snake. On the way to the hide, there are a few perches and feeders installed to attract birds. It is not an aviary and, instead of altering the natural surroundings, there was a need to attract birds.
Pakhibitan has been designed by NGO PUBLIC (People United for Better Living in Calcutta.

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