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Population rise a bittersweet win for greater adjutant storks, as poison enters their diet

Mohd Imran Khan 24 May 2024
Red-headed vulture eating prey. Photo by Timothy A Gonsalves/Wikimedia Commons.

Measuring the scavenging value of vultures

Simrin Sirur 25 Apr 2024

The dietary habits of endangered vultures

Sneha Mahale 16 Apr 2024

Waterbirds adapt to nest and roost in the urban oases of Udaipur

Sneha Mahale 12 Apr 2024

Understanding the elevational movements of Himalayan birds to improve conservation efforts

Divya Kilikar 10 Apr 2024

Nilgiri pipit seeks better status as habitat shrinks

Arathi Menon 9 Apr 2024

A village protects a flock, round the clock

Arathi Menon 19 Feb 2024

India adds five more wetlands to its list of Ramsar sites

Simrin Sirur 2 Feb 2024
Hanuman plover is a ground nesting bird, and both eggs and chicks are well camouflaged by their surroundings.

Newly identified shorebird species in Sri Lanka named after Hanuman

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Jan 2024
Concrete porcupine screens installed on the river bank to stop erosion on a river island near Daying Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary. Photo: Jyotirmoy Saharia

Grassland loss threatens endemic birds in Arunachal sanctuary

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy Saharia 30 Nov 2023
A lynx in a sea buckthorn shrub. Chamba spotted the Eurasian lynx on eight different occasions and captured several photographs. Photo by Stanzin Chamba.

A citizen-led initiative contributes to wildlife conservation in Ladakh

Manish Chandra Mishra 14 Nov 2023

Intercepting the illegal capture of migratory birds in south-central West Bengal

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 2 Nov 2023
A common wood pigeon.

Researchers in Nepal still puzzled over the super flock of pigeons last winter

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 Nov 2023

Book on endemic birds says three species almost extinct

Arathi Menon 9 Oct 2023

In Nepal, vulture colonies seen to hold stable amid old and new threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Oct 2023

Declining bird populations are a ‘grim’ reminder of rapid biodiversity loss, says new report

Simrin Sirur 29 Aug 2023
A nest belonging to a purple sunbird, constructed using anthropogenic waste material, with chicks present. Photo by Preeti Saryan.

Birds use waste to build nests in a Bhopal institute

Ashvita Anand 7 Aug 2023

The sounds of restoration

Sahana Ghosh 1 Aug 2023
Marabou storks are on the verge of extinction in West Africa but in South Africa and East Africa their population has never been larger because they are using urban areas. Photo by Jonah Gula. 

A new study reveals critical gaps in stork research; calls for scrutiny of the IUCN Red List data

Vinaya Kurtkoti 22 Jun 2023

[Interview] Conservationist MK Ranjitsinh Jhala on the need for a grassland policy in India

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 24 Mar 2023