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Lesser adjutants thrive in a Jharkhand district, finds study

Vinaya Kurtkoti 24 Sep 2024

Increasing summer temperatures impacting birds in Indian cities

Shanmukha Srija J 1 Aug 2024
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New study puts spotlight on neglected mammal, bird pollinators 

T. V. Padma 8 Jul 2024

Where are the birds of the shrinking grasslands of Maharashtra?

Divya Kilikar 27 May 2024

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

Sneha Mahale 12 Apr 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

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
An ibisbill at river Sindh. Photo from Iqram ul Haq.

Ibisbill, the poorly understood Himalayan waterbird faces threats, finds study

Hirra Azmat 24 Mar 2023
Painted storks in Kazhuveli. Photo by Bupesh Gupta.

[Commentary] Tamil Nadu needs an innovative wetland conservation strategy starting with Kazhuveli

Kannan Vaithianathan 12 Jan 2023

Rajasthan is getting wetter and it’s not good news for the desert ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Oct 2022

A new study from Karnataka evidences the impact of windfarms on biodiversity

Sneha Mahale 18 Jul 2022
Image shows three Sarus cranes foraging at sunset

Habitat changes may be causing sarus cranes to form breeding trios

Kasturi Das 29 Jun 2022

Electromagnetic radiation levels till a certain limit found to have no impact on sparrows in Guwahati

Roopak Goswami 9 Jun 2022

‘Delhi is a gaping wound…we’re a tiny Band Aid’: a film explores human and non-human relations in Delhi

Kartik Chandramouli 27 May 2022
The Suraha Tal Lake is the largest floodplain lake in the Ballia district. Jananayak Chandrashekhar University is situated within the Jai Prakash Narayan (Suraha Tal) Bird Sanctuary. Photo- Ballia district administration

A bird sanctuary’s survival is being threatened in Uttar Pradesh

Mayank Aggarwal 20 May 2022
A Great Indian Bustard which allegedly died due to collision with power lines. Photo by Devesh Gadahvi.

Are power lines turning Kutch into a bird graveyard from a bird paradise?

Ronak Gajjar 19 May 2022