Old palatial houses in north Kolkata, colonial buildings in the office para of central Kolkata, stylish south Kolkata homes with open porches, balconies, rooftops and small ventilation ducts, and the leafy neighbourhoods of Behala, Jadavpur, Kasba and Garia, their habitat is as diverse as the city itself
Water body, around 13km from the heart of Kolkata, is one of the last remaining nesting places of wintering waterfowl amid a growing sprawl of concrete in and around the city
With minimum temperatures across the state dipping even lower than 15 degrees Celsius, the condition is ideal for the arrival of such birds in the state in huge numbers, they added.
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