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Supercilium - Learn a bird word
Simpy put, the eyebrows of birds are called Supercilium. These eyebrows can be subtle in color and form, or bold, bright, and...
Chinmayi Ramasubramanian
Jan 14, 20241 min read
National Bird Day Jan 5
National Birds Day is celebrated every year to raise awareness about the birds that are captured, brutally treated or produced in...
Janani R
Jan 5, 20241 min read
Bird walk at Bangalore University Campus
Last week, we conducted a bird walk at Bangalore University Campus. The attendees had a great time trying to identify birds from a bird...
Chirp! Magazine
Dec 27, 20231 min read
Slaty-Headed Parakeet
A medium-sized parakeet with a bluish-gray head, green body, red bill, and yellow-tipped tail. Males and females are alike, except that...
Nidhi Ramasubramanian
Dec 25, 20231 min read
Can you find the eagle owl?
The owl, a master of the night sky, is extraordinarily adaptive when it comes to successfully pursuing and capturing its prey. In this...
Chinmayi Ramasubramanian
Nov 24, 20231 min read
State of India's Birds - Report
The report contains a brief outline of the methods used to come up with the State of India’s Birds. For those who would like to dig deep,...
Chirp! Magazine
Nov 3, 20231 min read
Painted Bush Quail
Attractive and strikingly marked quail with a red bill and legs. Endemic to peninsular India. Males have a white eyebrow and throat that...
Chirp! Magazine
Sep 8, 20231 min read
Noisy Seven sisters
While at our regular visits to farm houses, the most common bird are Jungle Babblers. Jungle Babblers are popularly known as Seven...
Janani R
Jun 13, 20231 min read
Presenting at Bird Monitoring symposium .. Second year in a row
Glad to have presented my latest work for Bird conservation at the Bird Monitoring symposium in March 2023. It is an honour to be...
Chinmayi Ramasubramanian
Apr 2, 20231 min read
Campus Bird Count 2023
On February 20th, I conducted the Campus Bird count in my school campus. My school is situated in the middle of a residential area but...
Chinmayi Ramasubramanian
Feb 21, 20231 min read
Hunter turned Scavengers of Bangalore
The Black kites have become very common in a large city like Bangalore. They are seen perching on high-rise buildings, water tanks and...
Chirp! Magazine
Feb 18, 20231 min read
Tracing the low-pitched sound of the Greater Coucal
Yes, its a cuckoo, but they are non parasitic, ie they do not lay their eggs in other's nests. Every morning, I was awakened by a...
Chirp! Magazine
Jan 30, 20231 min read
#Monotypic Species - Eurasian Collared Dove
The Eurasian collared dove species are distributed in Indian subcontinent, central Asia, west Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Japan....
Chinmayi Ramasubramanian
Jan 15, 20231 min read
Lifer - Black headed cuckoo shrike
This bird may be categorised as LC (Least concern) but for me it was a lifer. Male has dark slaty-gray head, neck, and upper breast; rest...
Chirp! Magazine
Dec 28, 20221 min read
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