Birds of Bangladesh

Birds of Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a beautiful country. It is a land of forests and trees, hills and vales, rivers, marshes and canals, wide open men dose. It has got a moderate climate neither to hot nor to cold. So this land is a happy abode of different kinds of birds. Birds have increased the beauty of Bangladesh. Sleep at night and rise early in the morning hearing the sweet song of different birds.
There are different types of birds in Bangladesh. They are different in colour, size and habit. They eat different kinds of food. Some birds eat fish and flesh, some live on warms and insects, some on fruits and grains, some on filth and garbage’s. Birds are divided into many classes. They are teasing birds, song birds, rapacious birds, game birds, migratory birds and tailor birds.
Crows and kites are teasing birds. The crow is a very common bird in Bangladesh. It is very clever. It steals away the food and other small things from our kitchen and from the hands of the little babies. It looks ugly. Yet it is useful. It feeds on dead animals and dirty things. It has a harsh voice. The kite also steals away chickens, fish and pieces of flesh.
There many song birds in Bangladesh. The cuckoo is the most popular of all song birds. It comes to Bangladesh at the beginning of spring. Small boys and girls try to imitate a cuckoo when it sings. It hides itself behind leaves. The shyma, the doel, the koel, and the baukatha-kao, the nightingle are well known song birds. Doel is Bangladesh national birds.
The parrot, the mayna , the chandana, the cockatoo and the martin are called taking birds. People tame them their sweet voice and they can talk like human beings if they are trained.
There are many game birds in Bangladesh. They are famous for their tasty flesh. The partridge, the dove, the pigeon, the snipe, the bittern, the heron, the teal, and the pankauri are most well known game birds.
There are some fish and eating birds that live beside the watery places. They eat small fish. The crane, the heron and the kingfisher are fish eating birds.
There are some birds of prey in Bangladesh. They are the vulture and the hawk. They mainly live on flesh and flesh. These birds have keen eyes and sharps nail. They swoop down upon their prey. The vulture eats upon dead animals.
There are some birds that build their nests with great skill. We wonder at their work. They are called tailor birds. The swallow, the tuntuni and the babui are tailor birds.
There are some birds that come out at night. They are called night birds. The owl and the bat are of this kind. These birds do not come out in broad daylight. We hear the owl prowl at night. It is harmless. The bat feeds on fruits. It flies at night.
Many birds come from foreign land in Bangladesh during autumn and winter. They are also famous of their flesh. They increase natural beauty of Bangladesh for the time being.