Gallery24,000 entries: highlights from Bird Photographer of the Year 2026
The world's largest bird photography competition drew more than 24,000 images this year; from a dancing western parotia to waterbirds for sale in a Cambodian market.
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GalleryRooftop farming
A rooftop garden for birds on the Dhaka deputy commissioner's office
The empty 11,000 sq ft roof of the Dhaka district administration building on Johnson Road now holds 418 plants of 58 species, water basins and bamboo thickets for birds, built for about Tk 10 lakh.
Environment"Rivers and Birds": 170 photographs at Dhaka's National Museum call for saving wetlands
An exhibition organised by Dhoritri Rokkhay Amra (DHORA), showing 170 photographs by Abir Abdullah and Ansar Uddin Khan Pathan, runs until 6 October.
GalleryPassion flowers, a pair of hornbills and straw by boat: rural Bangladesh on 4 October
Passion flowers and a cloudy sunrise in Rangamati, hornbills at the Gazipur safari park, a farmer grazing cattle in Bogura, an angler in Rangpur and straw carried by boat in Chatmohar: nature and farm pictures from Prothom Alo's daily glimpse.
GalleryIn pictures: shy plum-headed parakeets descend on grain fields in Naogaon
The plum-headed parakeet is one of Bangladesh's seven parakeet species; Prothom Alo photographer Hasan Mahmud captured flocks feeding on grain at Mohadipur in Badalgachhi, Naogaon, at morning and dusk.
EnvironmentCapturing Wings: Dhaka workshop teaches responsible bird photography and conservation
At an Environmental Photographic Society workshop, 35 participants learned to observe bird behaviour, photograph birds in the field and do so without disturbing their natural lives.
EnvironmentThe lesser adjutant, once common across Bangladesh, is fading away
Seen almost everywhere three or four decades ago, the lesser adjutant stork now survives in a few pockets of the Sundarbans, Chapainawabganj and Thakurgaon, writes Professor Tuhin Wadud, who urges protection of its habitat.
GalleryKites cool off in a Suhrawardy Udyan pond as heat grips Dhaka
Days of intense heat in the capital have left birds uncomfortable too; on 29 September Prothom Alo photographed a flock of kites bathing in the pond at Suhrawardy Udyan.
GalleryA day in Bangladesh: fishing on Kaptai Lake, cauliflower fields and lotus
On 30 September Prothom Alo's photographers found fishermen on Kaptai Lake in Rangamati, cauliflower fields and egrets in Shibganj, Bogura, lotus and a black-hooded oriole in Pabna and carambola blossom in Moulvibazar.
GalleryIn pictures: a white-throated kingfisher on the hunt in Pabna
The white-throated kingfisher is one of 11 kingfisher species found in Bangladesh; photographer Hasan Mahmud follows one at Balarampur in Pabna from its perch to the dive and the catch, in a Prothom Alo photo story.
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Barlekha family's 'bird house' shelters thousands of egrets and cormorants
Thousands of egrets and cormorants from Hakaluki haor roost at the late Manohar Ali Master's two-and-a-half-acre homestead in Halla village, Moulvibazar; the trees are ageing and promised support has not come.
EnvironmentThermal cameras and AI record bird collisions at an offshore wind turbine
A year-long pilot at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm used 16 thermal cameras and AI to watch birds and bats around a turbine, logging 22 possible collisions, two of them confirmed.
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The real story of Rio's Blu and Jewel: Spix's macaw returns to the wild
The blue macaw behind the animated film Rio, declared extinct in the wild in 2019, was released back into Brazil's Caatinga from 2022, and a released pair hatched chicks in 2023.