Biodiversity Club

Convenor for Academic 2020-21 - Dr. Kamal Kr Gupta and Mr. Mohd Shazad

Nature Walk to Okhla Bird Sanctuary

Biodiversity club, Department of Zoology under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme and IQAC organized a visit to Okhla Bird Sanctuary on Feb13, 2021. A group of 10 students along with the biodiversity club coordinator, Dr. Kamal Kumar Gupta and mentor Mr. Akshay Diwedi visited the sanctuary for bird watching and exploring biodiversity. The group size was kept small keeping the COVID PANDEMIC in consideration.

The Okhla Bird Sanctuary is located at the banks of river Yamuna in Gautam Budh Nagar Utter Pradesh (28.552 N, 77.319 E) with an area of approximately 4 square Kilometers. It was notified as Sanctuary in the year 1990; at present, it is one of the 466 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in India. The Sanctuary has a beautiful landscape and serene environment with diverse flora and fauna. It provides shelter and breeding ground to a variety of migratory birds in winters. It also houses a number of resident bird species.

The group walked on nature trail for about 4 KM. They reported more than 55 species of both the migratory and resident birds and captured them in their camara. Flocks of the migratory birds such as coot, gull, different species of cormorants, little grebe, shoveler, pochard, flamingo and many more were seen in the Yamuna canal. Many resident birds like jungle babler, tailor bird, king fisher, rufous treepie, ashy prinia, Oriental white-eye, Oriental magpie robin, yellow footed green pigeon etc. were spotted in the surrounding vegetation. The sounds of many birds were identified with the help of mentor and online apps. The group also reported various other animal groups such as Daphnia, Moina, Copepods, Snails, Catfishes, Squirrel and different types of Insects. This visit to the sanctuary was not only a great learning experience but also a great relief from the emotional stress of Covid 19 to the students.

Nature Walk to explore and document insect biodiversity of Deshbandhu College campus

Program Co-ordinator: Dr. Kamal Kumar Gupta

Participating Faculty Members and Mentors: Dr. Sunil Kayesth, Mr. Mohd. Shazad, Dr. Gouri Nandy, Dr. Mosses Rinchui, Dr. Gajendra Singh and, Mr. Akshay Dwivedi.

Number of participants: 06 faculty members and students of B.Sc (Hons) Zoology 3^rd Year & 2^nd Year; B.Sc (Prog) LS 1^st year ( in total: approximately 62 students)

Date of the program Organized: September 28, 2019; 9:00a.m-5:00p.m in the Deshbandhu college campus

The Biodiversity club of Department of Zoology, Deshbandhu College under the aegis of DBT star college organised a nature walk to explore and document the insect biodiversity in the Deshbandhu college campus The most commonly observed insects were observed butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, different types of flies, beetles. Many aspects of insect behaviors were observed by the group. The event provided a great opportunity to students to observe and explore and appreciate insects in their natural habitat. All collected specimens and photographs of the insects were compiled and a initiative is taken to print a brochure with complete information of all the insects in the campus.

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Nature Walk to Okhla Bird Sanctuary

Name of the Program Co-ordinator: Dr. Varsha Baweja

Participating Faculty Members : Dr Gouri Nandy, Dr. Gajendra Singh, Dr. Kiran Bala, Dr. Sushma Sharma

Number of participant faculty members + students : 05 faculty members + All Students of B.Sc (Hons) Zoology 3^rd Year. (50 students)

Date of the program Organized: 23^rd January, 2020 from 10 am to 3pm at Okhla Bird Sanctuary, Noida

Event Description:

The Biodiversity club of the Department of Zoology, Deshbandhu College the aegis of DBT Star College scheme had organized a nature walk at Okhla bird sanctuary to observe and assess both the flora and the fauna of this sanctuary, with special emphasis on the avian population. Guided by the teachers, the students were able to found out many exotic birds species. They were excited to take pictures of the birds and collected samples of other organisms including nematodes, spiders, etc.

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Quiz on Blue Revolution

It was organized on February 14, 2020 to generate awareness about conservation of biodiversity among the students. Ms Vandana Saini, B. Sc. Hons IIIrd year and Ms Richa Gupta (Vice President, Colloquium), B. Sc. hons IIIrd year were the quiz masters.