During Environment month celebration,  we got the opportunity to spend time in Forest with Mr Zimpa Karma Bhutia , IFS and learned many things from him about birds, mainly the birds of Jharkhand.

 It was 13^th. Jun?12,  we  reached to one nearest  forest beside Hudco lake in Jamshedpur at 6 AM along with camera , cool water and note book.  Shibajyoti took his morning jogging diet  wetted Chana and Mug dal along with small pieces of ginger  in one jute bag to eat in forest along with team. This is a small forest beside  the lake and Sumant Mulgaonkar park.  Our bird specialist  Mr Bhutia was  invited by Mr. Prasant Krishnan, DM – (Environment & Effluent Mgmt) of Tata Motors to support us for bird watching.

Mr. Bhutia is an officer of Indian Forest Service (  IFS  1997 batch ). He was born and brought up in Forest area of Sikkim,  on Himalayan state of India. He had  served as DFO in Kolhan Division of Chaibasa, Jharkhand and Garhwa in Garhwa District. Five years back  he  went for a deputation to his home state Sikkim, wherein  he had  served as
Working Plan Officer of the state and followed by a stint as Managing
Director of a Govt owned public sector undertaking called Govt Fruit
Preservation unit. Now  he return back to Jharkhand state as DFO Dhalbhum,Jamshedpur. He  interests lie in bird-watching and wildlife.

In the morning,  we around 15 members team were there with him in the forest. He was showing  us different types of birds, educating us how to indentify birds by hiring their sound ,  their special feature  etc. He had explained  about territory birds and other  similarity with animals  and human. By his powerful camera,  he was collecting close view of the birds available in the forests and showing to us with details description of the birds. The practical session was very interesting to all of us.

 Beside birds, he was explaining about tress, butter fly, insects etc. He had shown  us tiger butterfly and other living being available in the forest. The officers of Tata Motors , Mr.P V H RAO [ AGM (Horticulture & Town Water Mgmt)  and  Mr. P.C.Prasad  had also shared their knowledge of forest and environmental issues of Jharkhand.

 During his service life he had visited most of the forest of this southern Jharkhand  area and gathered wide knowledge about birds and animals of this area. He  had supplied us the attached photographs of the Birds of Jharkhand. The bird like Copper smith, Drango, Koel, Magpai Robin, Myna, Pariah Kite, Red vented bulbul, rose ringed parakeet and spotted dove are available here and shown here for our friends.