Every afternoon flocks of birds arrive in the government office quarter at Jhumur on the Lakshmipur highway. They crowd the trees around the deputy commissioner's office, the district judge's court, the superintendent of police's office and the Power Development Board, and perch on electricity poles and buildings too.
To give them safe shelter, the district administration has hung more than a hundred nests in the trees, and plans to add more in stages.
Staff at the deputy commissioner's office said the birds come in larger numbers in winter. Every afternoon the area fills with the calls of thousands of birds, and it falls quiet again after dusk.
Officials and passers-by alike stop to enjoy the scene on their way home. Pedestrians said walking along the road in the afternoon and hearing the birds gives them a sense of calm.
Lakshmipur additional deputy commissioner (general) Samrat Khisa said the birds spend the night on branches because they have no proper place to stay. The nests were hung on the deputy commissioner's initiative to protect birds and nature and to let them roost safely, and he said nature can be better protected if everyone joins in.
Keeping large trees standing in the middle of a town and adding shelter to them shows how even a government office compound can become a safe place for local birds.
The report was filed by Krishi Shomoy's Lakshmipur correspondent.
Photo: A flock of birds in a tree (representative), Mukerjee / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Source: Krishi Shomoy
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