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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..
WINGS—Birds of India
India Bird Races has been rebranded as WINGS—Birds of India. This new identity reflects their expanded focus as a nature awareness program dedicated to celebrating and protecting India’s incredible birdlife.
Asian Waterbird Census
The dates for the 2025 Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) are 1 Dec 2024 to 28 Feb 2025.
Great Backyard Bird Count 2025
GBBC as an event is a wonderful opportunity to spread the word about birding to birders and non-birders.
Campus Bird Count 2025
Campus Bird Count is all about documenting the birdlife in multiple campuses across India.
Yellow-eyed Pigeon
Yellow-eyed Pigeon (Columba eversmanni) breeds in Central Asia and winters in northwestern India and Pakistan.
Pulicat Bird Atlas
For the first time in Pulicat’s history, birding communities and birdwatchers from across India are coming together in a unified effort to conduct this long-term bird atlas project.
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.
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.
Field Identification of Green and Greenish Warblers
By Ramit Singal Green and Greenish Warblers have always been notoriously difficult to tell apart. Till recently, Green Warbler (P. nitidus) was considered to be a subspecies of the Greenish Warbler (P. trochiloides). Considering the difficulties involved in...
Cormorants Clarified
By Ramit Singal Ever seen a V-shaped flock of black birds flying purposefully in the sky near a water body? Or a black bird sitting still with its wings spread out in a small village pond? Or a bird's head sticking out of the water at a lake or pond? Did you notice...
Identifying Paddyfield Pipits
The Paddyfield Pipit is resident across most parts of the country and this is an excellent time of the year to familiarise oneself with the most common pipit of the region.
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...
Frequency Matters: Acoustic Identification of Barbets
By Anand Krishnan Barbets are some of the most ubiquitous of India’s fruit-eating birds, even occupying most major cities where fruiting trees remain. These sluggish, largely green birds are often heard before they are seen, their loud, repetitive calls betraying...
Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker and Stripe-breasted Woodpecker: How can they be told apart?
By Pritam Baruah and Ashwin Viswanathan Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker (FBWO) and Stripe-breasted Woodpecker (SBWO) and are variable woodpeckers that form a species pair in the genus Dendrocopos. Both species can be distinguished from other similar co-occuring...
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...
माशीमार कसे ओळखावे
माशीमार कसे ओळखावे: लाल छातीचा माशीमार (Red-breasted Flycatcher), लाल-कंठाचा माशीमार (Taiga Flycatcher) आणि काश्मिरी माशीमार (Kashmir Flycatcher) इंग्रजीत प्रकाशीत झालेल्या मूळ लेखाचा हा मराठी अनुवाद आहे. लेखक : तरुण मेनन आणि अश्विन विश्वनाथन, अनुवादक : स्वरूप...
Identifying Paddyfield Pipits
The Paddyfield Pipit is resident across most parts of the country and this is an excellent time of the year to familiarise oneself with the most common pipit of the region.
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.
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...
Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker and Stripe-breasted Woodpecker: How can they be told apart?
By Pritam Baruah and Ashwin Viswanathan Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker (FBWO) and Stripe-breasted Woodpecker (SBWO) and are variable woodpeckers that form a species pair in the genus Dendrocopos. Both species can be distinguished from other similar co-occuring...
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...
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...
Identifying Flycatchers: Red-breasted, Taiga and Kashmir Flycatcher
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...
Leafbirds – Golden-fronted, Jerdon’s and others
By Ramit Singal There are four species of leafbirds (also known as chloropsis) found in India and they never fail to enthral a birder. Each of them is largely green, slender in build, with a medium-length tail and the habit of dwelling in the top or mid-canopy....
ನೊಣಹಿಡುಕಗಳ ಗುರುತಿಸುವಿಕೆ: ನೆತ್ತರುಗಲ್ಲದ ನೊಣಹಿಡುಕ, ಬೂದು ನೆತ್ತರುಗಲ್ಲದ ನೊಣಹಿಡುಕ ಮತ್ತು ಕಾಶ್ಮೀರಿ ನೊಣಹಿಡುಕ
ನೆತ್ತರುಗಲ್ಲ ನೊಣಹಿಡುಕ (Red-breasted Flycatcher), ಬೂದು ನೆತ್ತರುಗಲ್ಲ ನೊಣಹಿಡುಕ (Taiga Flycatcher) ಮತ್ತು ಕಾಶ್ಮೀರಿ ನೊಣಹಿಡುಕಗಳು (Kashmir Flycatcher) ಫಿಸೆಡುಲಾ (Ficedula) ಎಂಬ ಪ್ರಬೇಧಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿರುತ್ತವೆ. ಈ ಮೂರು ನೊಣಹಿಡುಕಗಳು ನೋಡಲು ಒಂದೇ ರೀತಿ ಕಾಣುವುದರಿಂದ ಸಹಜವಾಗಿ ವೀಕ್ಷಕರನ್ನು ಗೊಂದಲಕ್ಕೀಡು ಮಾಡುತ್ತವೆ. ಆರಂಭದಲ್ಲಿ, ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಮೂರು ಜಾತಿಯ ನೊಣಹಿಡುಕಗಳನ್ನು ನೆತ್ತರುಗಲ್ಲ ನೊಣಹಿಡುಕದ ಉಪಜಾತಿಗಳೆಂದೇ ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಲಾಗಿತ್ತು, ಈಗ ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ಜಾತಿಯವು. ಇತ್ತೀಚಿಗಿನ ಆಣ್ವಿಕ ಸಂಶೋಧನೆಯು ಇವೆಲ್ಲವೂ ಒಂದೇ ಸೋದರಿಯ ಗುಂಪಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿದ್ದವೆಂದು ಅದನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸುತ್ತದೆ, ಅಂದರೆ ಇವೆಲ್ಲವುದರ ಇತ್ತೀಚಿಗಿನ ಮೂಲ ಪೂರ್ವಜರು ಒಂದೇ ಎಂದು ಅರ್ಥ.
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