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Bunting Count
Join the 3rd edition of Bunting Count where Asian countries are teaming up to monitor buntings for conservation. The goal is to raise awareness and conduct baseline studies on key bunting sites..
Himalayan Bird Count 2025
Join the 2025 Himalayan Bird Count on 10th May! Help document bird diversity across the majestic Himalayan regions of India, Nepal, and Bhutan through this collaborative citizen-science initiative.
Endemic Bird Day 2025
Join the 2025 Endemic Bird Day on 10th May! This special day is dedicated to documenting South Asia's 236 unique endemic and near-endemic bird species..
White-throated Needletail
White-throated Needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus) breeds across the high Himalayas and in East Asia, and migrate to Australia for the winter.
WWF-India’s Campus Bird Count 2025 Participation Report
A huge congratulations to all 146 WWF-India Volunteers who participated in the Campus Bird Count 2025! Heartfelt congratulations to everyone who contributed to this year’s success.
Identifying Indian and Singing Bushlarks: White on the tail is not diagnostic!
By Ashwin Viswanathan Indian Bushlark and Singing Bushlark are very similar species that share many morphological features. Identification can be a real challenge. Luckily, one feature has often served as a shortcut out of this identification conundrum - the...
Bird Atlases
A bird atlas is a citizen science project intended to map the distribution and abundance of a region’s birds. In an atlas project, the region of interest is typically divided into cells that are often subdivided into smaller cells, a design that can ensure uniform sampling in space by volunteer birdwatchers.
ID Articles
A series of articles to help with the identification of difficult birds.
Red-breasted, Taiga and Kashmir Flycatcher ID
By Tarun Menon and Ashwin Viswanathan This article is available in Hindi, Kannada, and Marathi Red-breasted, Taiga and Kashmir Flycatcher are three very similar looking flycatchers belonging to the Ficedula genus. Initially, all three were considered to be...
What’s that White Egret sp?
By Ramit Singal Egrets are beautiful and elegant birds to watch. You'll often see them standing still over water and, in a flash, using their long, pointed bills to stab a fish or pick out an insect. No matter where you are in India, it is common to see one or many...
Is that a Pipit or a Lark?
By Ramit Singal Few birds are as confusing to the beginning birder as Pipits and Larks. The first step towards identifying the species within the two families is to be able to tell between a pipit and a lark. Here is a short guide to telling apart these confusing...
Dark egrets can be white…
By Ramit Singal The previous article focussed on the 4 regularly occurring white egrets from India. In this follow-up post, the attention will shift to egrets that happen to be dimorphic, i.e., they have a dark morph as well as a white morph. The Reef-Egrets are...
The Jungle Babbler and its Six Sisters
The guide to identifying the 7 species of turdoides babblers found in India
Keeping an ear out for prinias: A beginner’s guide to vocal identification
-Anand Krishnan Every new birdwatcher starts off identifying birds using illustrations of plumage in a field guide. Building field skills, we all eventually use a suite of traits to ID birds, of which plumage is just one. Behavioural traits, habitat and other...
Red-breasted, Taiga and Kashmir Flycatcher ID-Kannada
लाल-छातीचा, लाल-कंठाचा आणि काश्मिरी माशीमार पक्ष्यांची ओळख कशी करावी? फिसेडूला गटातील या सारख्या दिसणाऱ्या प्रजातींमधील महत्त्वाचे फरक जाणून घ्या.
Some tips on vocal identification of Jungle and Rock Bush-Quails in Peninsular India
By Anand Krishnan and Sarthak Malusare Introduction Two Perdicula bush-quails—Jungle Bush-Quail (Perdicula asiatica) and Rock Bush-Quail (Perdicula argoondah), are widespread in Peninsular India in scrub-jungle and grassland habitats. Like many quails, they are...
Bushlarks, Skylarks, & Crested Larks
By Ramit Singal Hopefully, you've had some practice over the past month(s) in telling apart larks from pipits. In this article, we'll try and give some tips to tell between 3 different groups of larks and the species within these groups. We'll start with the...
Red-breasted, Taiga and Kashmir Flycatcher ID
By Tarun Menon and Ashwin Viswanathan This article is available in Hindi, Kannada, and Marathi Red-breasted, Taiga and Kashmir Flycatcher are three very similar looking flycatchers belonging to the Ficedula genus. Initially, all three were considered to be...
Identifying Waders: Part 2
This article focusses on the two species of a group of very small shorebirds known as Stints (Calidris sp) - the Little Stint and the Temminck's Stint.
Dark egrets can be white…
By Ramit Singal The previous article focussed on the 4 regularly occurring white egrets from India. In this follow-up post, the attention will shift to egrets that happen to be dimorphic, i.e., they have a dark morph as well as a white morph. The Reef-Egrets are...
Red-breasted, Taiga and Kashmir Flycatcher ID-Hindi
रेड-ब्रेस्टेड, टैगा और कश्मीर फ्लाईकैचर की पहचान कैसे करें? इन प्रवासी पक्षियों को पहचानने के आसान तरीके जानिए।
Some tips on vocal identification of Jungle and Rock Bush-Quails in Peninsular India
By Anand Krishnan and Sarthak Malusare Introduction Two Perdicula bush-quails—Jungle Bush-Quail (Perdicula asiatica) and Rock Bush-Quail (Perdicula argoondah), are widespread in Peninsular India in scrub-jungle and grassland habitats. Like many quails, they are...
Identifying Swallows: Red-rumped, Barn, Streak-throated and Wire-tailed Swallow
By Kaushik Sarkar and Ashwin Viswanathan Presented here is an easy guide to help identify the four most common Swallow species in India. You can also download just the photographic guide to this article: PDF format (345 KB). In India, there are 15 species of...
Identifying Waders: Part 1
In the first part of the series related to identifying waders, we try and tackle an often misidentified group consisting of the Tringa sandpipers.
Keeping an ear out for prinias: A beginner’s guide to vocal identification
-Anand Krishnan Every new birdwatcher starts off identifying birds using illustrations of plumage in a field guide. Building field skills, we all eventually use a suite of traits to ID birds, of which plumage is just one. Behavioural traits, habitat and other...
Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker and Stripe-breasted Woodpecker: ID
Fulvous-breasted and Stripe-breasted Woodpeckers are similar-looking species that can be hard to tell apart. This guide highlights key differences in their appearance, range, and vocalizations to help you identify them with confidence.
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