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A Mottled Wood Owl peering from behind a tree branch at night, its large dark eyes glowing in the dim light. The intricate patterns on its feathers blend seamlessly with the surroundings.

Nocturnal Bird Count Protocol in the Western Ghats

A standardised protocol for nocturnal bird monitoring in India’s forests helps researchers and forest departments study owls and frogmouths during night surveys. Originally designed for the Western Ghats, this scientific methodology can be adapted for forest areas across Peninsular India.

Pied Kingfisher on SoIB 2023 report

State of India’s Birds 2023 Summary

SoIB 2023 report assessess the conservation status of 942 species. This report is largely based on 30 million observations contributed by over 30,000 birdwatchers across India.

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State of India’s Birds 2020 Report Summary

The State of India’s Birds 2020 (SoIB 2020) is a first-of-its-kind collaborative effort that evaluates the overall...

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Yellow-cheeked Tit perched on a budding tree branch.

Towards Fairness in Citizen Science: Ethics, Consent & Collaboration

Good practices to help foster ethics, consent, and collaboration in citizen science.

A flock of bar-headed geese flying in formation with a greylag goose in the center, captured in mid-flight against a backdrop of trees and sky.

Secrets of unexplored India: Revelations from birdwatching in the northern Deccan

A small team set out to explore one of India’s least studied regions — the northern Deccan — and discovered thriving House Sparrows, unexpected parakeet champions, vanishing grassland specialists, and new breeding records of threatened waterbirds. This ongoing journey reveals the importance of systematic surveys in landscapes often overlooked.

A Violet Cuckoo perched on a branch amidst green foliage.

June 2025 eBirding Challenge

Get Ready for Cuckoo Season! Upload 25 checklists, with at least five of them containing a brood-parasitic cuckoo.

A group of Greater Flamingos standing in shallow water, some with wings outstretched revealing vibrant pink and black feathers.

Birder Profile–Rachita Priyadarshini Sahoo

Meet Rachita Sahoo, a young birder from Odisha whose journey into birding began in the lush surroundings of the Eastern Ghats..

Monsoon Seawatch

Seawatching along the western coast of India during the Southwest Monsoon offers a unique opportunity to observe seabirds driven closer to shore by the monsoon winds. During this time, strong […]

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Rajo Bird Count

Join us in the 2nd edition of Odisha's Rajo Bird Count (14 – 16 June, 2025)!

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14 June 2025 14 June - 16 June
Migration Maps

Pallas’s Fish-Eagle

Pallas Fish-Eagle (Haliaeetus leucoryphus) breeds during winter in the northern and northeastern parts of the Indian subcontinent and migrates to Mongolia and thereabouts for the summer.

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 Flycatcher photographed by Fareed Mohammad

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।

Bushlarks, Skylarks, & Crested Larks

Related resources Is that a Pipit or a Lark? Identifying Indian and Singing Bushlarks Larks of Telangana (PDF) By Ramit Singal Hopefully, you've had some practice in telling apart larks from pipits. In this article, we'll try and give some tips to tell between 3...

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...

Red breasted Flycatcher photographed by Fareed Mohammad

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.

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 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.

Red breasted Flycatcher photographed by Fareed Mohammad

Red-breasted, Taiga and Kashmir Flycatcher ID-Marathi

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...

Red breasted Flycatcher photographed by Fareed Mohammad

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।

Bushlarks, Skylarks, & Crested Larks

Related resources Is that a Pipit or a Lark? Identifying Indian and Singing Bushlarks Larks of Telangana (PDF) By Ramit Singal Hopefully, you've had some practice in telling apart larks from pipits. In this article, we'll try and give some tips to tell between 3...

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...

Red breasted Flycatcher photographed by Fareed Mohammad

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.

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 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.

Red breasted Flycatcher photographed by Fareed Mohammad

Red-breasted, Taiga and Kashmir Flycatcher ID-Marathi

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...

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