Dora Beel

Dora Beel is a wetland and lake at Rampur No. 2 village in the Palashbari revenue circle of Kamrup district, surrounded by villages such as Rajapukhuri, Nahira and Bortari. The Kulsi River is both its main inlet and outlet, and the beel shrank from about 301 acres in 1971 to 278 in 2005.

The floodplains between the beel and the Kulsi hold more than 230 species of resident and migratory birds, among them the rare Oriental pratincole and threatened species such as the greater adjutant, lesser adjutant, black-necked stork and three kinds of vulture. In the monsoon the endangered Ganges river dolphin comes in from the river, and it has been recorded breeding where the Kulsi meets the beel. The wetland also supports 74 fish species, turtles, reptiles and 75 kinds of butterfly. The folklorist Prafulladatta Goswami first took up birdwatching here, and an annual Dora Beel festival is held on its banks.