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I was serving at Sylhet in a Govt. rural development department during 1979 to 1985. One of my friends Mr. Wahab, he served in a British Pharmaceutical company. Once in the early December in 1982, we decided to have a trip to Hakaluki Haur, the greatest grazing field of migrating birds in Bangladesh. . “Haur” is a bangle word which means big natural wetlands (Water reservoir). Normally, during winter these haurs turn into a vast green land and in the rainy season they turn into a sea. But Hakaluki is different; it remains full of water throughout the seasons.

Hakaluki is in the district of Moulovi Bazar at Kulaura upazila. Hakaluki is situated in between Kulaura, Juri and Baralekha upazila. The haur is about 42 (Forty Two) sq.km.

We took our journey by a car from Sylhet to Hakaluki via Biyani Bazar upazila. We started for Hakaluki 3 hour before sunrise with a target to reach the spot before sun rise. Because, after sun rise many birds fly away to collect food, they will come back in the evening.

When we reach the spot, it was still dark. Mr. Wahab is an experienced expert man of bird observer and he asked me to observe the clods on water surface. And he told me this black layer on water surface which seemed like black clods are all birds on the water surface. After sun rise you can see them clearly
As the day light is coming up we saw that thousands and thousands of birds were there on the water.We noticed that thousands of birds were chattering in the sky at the sun rising moment. Various kinds of birds from different parts of the world especially birds fly from Siberia across the Himalayas to avoid the sever cold used to migrate at Hakaluki every year.

We saw more then 20 parties who came to observe birds early in the morning. As day light is increasing more and more parties and families are coming. With in half an hour we saw many visitors come to observe migrated birds. Hakaluki is a very large Haur in Bangladesh and the natural beauty of the place make interested the people of various parts of Bangladesh who are interested keenly to visit Hakaluki for simply watch the biggest birds-convocation at the place. We left Hakaluki at 10 am for Sylhet by our car, having an extra ordinary experience of nature.

Visitors used to visit Hakaluki every year in the winter to observe spectacular scenes and charisma of beauty in Hakaluki.