"Water Birds of Bhopal"

“Water Birds of Bhopal” is a digital video documentary focusing on birds as excellent flagships and vital environmental indicators.

It is a 28-minute bird-filled documentary that can be telecast or used as a multi-media software. The documentary “Water Birds of Bhopal” is full of extraordinary photography, bird songs and video footage of over 40 species of water birds.

The documentary show-cases Bhopal’s Upper lake and the Van Vihar National Park as an excellent habitat for all kinds of birds.

The watershed of Bhopal’s Upper Lake—also called the Bhoj wetland is designated a wetland of international importance under the International Ramsar Convention. The Upper Lake and the area surrounding it at once becomes a home for winter visitors of the avian kind as Bhopal falls exactly on the migratory birds’ North-South passage.

The documentary by Lalit Shastri, the Principal Correspondent of The Hindu for Madhya Pradesh and his wife Dr. Raajshri Shastri, Assistant Professor Sociology, MLB College Bhopal, with valuable research inputs by Parag Bakshi, is backed by five years and hundreds of hours of birding and outdoor shooting of the most common birds of Bhopal as well as the exotic migratory birds.