This is a guest post by Ramesh Shenai. As a naturalist by profession, he has lead many tours to premier wildlife destinations across India. Other than...
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Lockdown Birding Diaries— Under The Ficus Tree
This is a guest post by Kaushik Sarkar, who is a nature enthusiast with great interest in avian ecology and interactions of birds with the modified...
1 million photos & 1 million lists
In the last ten years, the eBird community in India has grown tremendously. One of the landmark birding events in the country, the Great Backyard Bird Count...
Are buildings the new killing fields for birds?
Birds bring us joy in many ways! While some people set up birdbaths and feeders on their window panes and balconies to attract birds, did you know that many...
Frosted, dusted, textured – Is your glass bird friendly?
Birds often see the reflection of trees and the sky in glass windows, balconies and fly into them. Studies show that many million bird deaths occur annually...
Tadoba’s Women Birding Squad
Tadoba's Women Birding Squad Written by Pooja Pawar “Oh, this bird appears so close”; “such bright colours and so clearly visible through this binocular!”...
A Birdwatcher’s Pledge for 2020
2020: A BIRDWATCHER'S PLEDGE Observe I will observe birds at any opportunity I will enjoy all the other miracles of nature too I will record my observations...
Who let the birds out? | The expanding range of Indian Peafowl in Kerala
By Tarun Menon I have been visiting my grandparent’s home in Palakkad for the last 23 years. Until 2015, neither me nor my family had seen a peafowl except...
Fifty thousand to Five hundred thousand!!
From 50,000 photographs and 2000 sound recordings in 2016, we today have crossed an astonishing number of 5,00,000 photographs and 18, 000 bird sounds in...
Wetland Bird Count: A Gateway to Citizen Science
A guest post by the members of the Perur Lake Forum – a group of birders who conducted surveys to monitor the state of Perur Lake in Coimbatore.
In A Crowded State, Farmers And Sarus Cranes Coexist
Uttar Pradesh is dominated by crowded urban centres and intense agriculture, typically not a good recipe for large wetland birds. Yet cranes in Uttar Pradesh are flourishing, not despite the people — but because of the people.
Using a pair of binoculars and a smartphone to take bird photographs
In the absence of a camera, your phone and binoculars can prove to be an invaluable combination for taking photographs of birds. Read on for more…