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Nature’s clean-up crew

Team Mongabay-India 15 Apr 2026
Representative image of a great Indian bustard. Image by Shiv's fotografia via Wikimedia Commons.

After decade long wait, great Indian bustard hatches in Gujarat

Simrin Sirur 3 Apr 2026
A lesser flamingo in Mumbai. Image by Sujai.rajapaul via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A vibrant pink wetland visitor

Team Mongabay-India 18 Mar 2026
A dung beetle in the Thar desert. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

What wild poop can teach children about ecology [Book review]

Kasturi Das 25 Feb 2026
A white-bellied sea eagle nesting on an electric pylon along Odisha’s coast. Such pylons expose raptors to several risks, including nest removal by maintenance crew and possible electrocution. Image by Sakti Prasad Pattnayak.

Artificial nesting structures may act as ecological traps for white-bellied sea eagles

Ananya Singh 16 Feb 2026
A female collects materials to build her nest. Image by Agnes Francila.

Urban penalty leaves mother sparrows working more, raising less

Arathi Menon 13 Feb 2026
A western marsh harrier near Nal Sarovar Lake in Gujarat. Image by Hari K Patibanda via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Migrant harriers emerge as unlikely gardeners of grasslands

Nikhil Sreekandan 13 Feb 2026
A Himalayan snowcock. Image by Kalzang Gurmet/NCF.

Birds are declining even in undisturbed grasslands, raising climate concerns

Manish Chandra Mishra 6 Feb 2026

A border village creates a community sanctuary for its state bird

Nabarun Guha 6 Jan 2026
Vulture nest numbers have sharply declined in recent years, from 23 occupied nests in 2019 to just one in both 2022 and 2023, across two cliff-nesting colonies in the Kaghaznagar Forest Division and adjoining parts of the Deccan Plateau, at the junction of Telangana, Maharashtra, and Chhattisgarh. Image by Ravikanth Manchiryala.

Deccan’s vultures in decline

Sneha Mahale 4 Nov 2025
Salim Ali's first scientific paper was on the nesting of the baya or common weaverbird. His work is a testament to the fact that good science can rise from unexpected beginnings. Image by B. Vinoth.

A lifetime of watching birds with a pencil, paper and patience [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 28 Oct 2025

Global seabird records guide us where to look next

Kartik Chandramouli 16 Oct 2025
Otters painted in the raja gopuram (main tower) of the Thirupudaimaruthur temple, along with wood carvings, serve as the earliest records of otter presence in the region. Image by Maria Anthony.

A village on a river bank shows how community-led river restoration works [Commentary]

Teresa Scholastica Thomas, Sanmadi K.R., I. Santhanamari, M. Mathivanan, M. Soubadra Devy 13 Oct 2025

The search for the Jerdon’s courser needs to be deepened [Commentary]

Ronith Urs 8 Sep 2025

Tracking India’s elusive grassland nomad

Sneha Mahale 29 Aug 2025
Great Indian Bustards feed on termites in the soil. Image by Late Radheshyam Bishnoi.

The state of the great Indian bustard leaves no room for bad eggs [Commentary]

Sumit Dookia, Mamta Rawat 28 Aug 2025
Yellow-browed bulbul specimens collected from the Nilgiri hills in the 1800s at the Natural History Museum at Tring, England. Image by Vijay Ramesh.

Old maps and dead birds reveal the story of grassland and bird decline in the Nilgiris

Kartik Chandramouli 19 Aug 2025

Tracking seasons through changing tree behaviour [Commentary]

Geetha Ramaswami 15 Aug 2025

DNA test cracks the case of mistaken quails

Kartik Chandramouli 31 Jul 2025

India’s first hornbill conservation centre announced

Simrin Sirur 24 Jul 2025