Birds

Bangladesh is a beautiful country. It is a land of forests, hills and vales, rivers, marshes and canals, wide open meadows. It has got a moderate climate-neither too hot nor too cold. So this land is a happy abode of different kinds of birds. Birds have improved the beauty of our country. People rise early in the morning hearing the sweet song of different birds.

There have 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 on fruits and grains, some on filth and garbages. Birds are divided into many classes. Like tearing birds, song birds, rapacious birds, game birds, migratory birds and tailor birds. There are many song birds in bangladesh. The cuckoo is the most popular of all song birds. It comes to bangladesh at the biginning of spring. Small boys and girls try to imitate a cuckoo when it sings. It hides itself behind leaves. Song birds like the shyma, the doel, the koel and the baukatha-kao, the nightingle are well known. Doel is the national bird of bangladesh. 

The parrot, the mayna, the chandana, the cockatoo and the martin are called talking birds. People tame them for 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. Game birds like the partridge, the dove, the pigeon, the snipe, the bittern, the heron, the teal, and the pankauri are most well known.