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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Flora,  Musings,  Nature

    The blue-winged leafbird and the blushing Palash

    By Anshu / March 20, 2019

    In the backyard of the quarter just behind my house was a tall tree. Bare. Bereft of leaves. It had probably lived its life. But it was a photographer’s delight. For it was here that I got…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    The ‘tantalising’ painted storks

    By Anshu / February 6, 2019

    The word ‘tantalise’ means ‘desirable but just out of reach’. This word is derived from the Greek mythological figure Tantalus. As the legend goes, Tantalus is a son of Zeus who is an evil doer. In one…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    The cacophonous red-naped ibis

    By Anshu / January 4, 2019

    Since the new year, every dawn, I hear a series of loud cacophonic screams near my house. These begin as harsh squealing sounds and then get louder almost to the extent of trumpeting. And I know who…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    The Black-necked Stork: A near-threatened species

    By Anshu / December 19, 2018

    Only recently there was a hue and cry in the papers about a black-necked stork which was spotted with a ring around its beak in a wetland outside Delhi. Black-necked storks are large birds, which are classified as…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    Pallas’s fish eagle: Spotting a nest

    By Anshu / November 24, 2018

    In Kaziranga, last year, we spotted a nest. Was it empty? Empty nest? No, two white heads bobbed up. Hey! There is a couple inside! Eagles! Which one? This is Pallas’s fish eagle, a species classified as ‘vulnerable’ in…

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  • Birds,  Nature

    The raucous white-breasted waterhens

    By Anshu / July 7, 2018

    I had just returned from work and was parking my vehicle, when I heard some loud strange noises in the field beyond the boundary wall of my house. It was raining and I should have rushed into…

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  • Birds,  Nature

    Morning yoga with a scaly breasted munia

    By Anshu / June 8, 2018

    Manna Dey immortalized these birds in Teesri Kasam, when he sang Chalat musafir moh liya re pinjre wali munia… I have always found scaly breasted munias very attractive specially for their designer waistcoats. One morning, as I was enjoying…

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  • Birds,  Nature

    Indian silverbills or white-throated munias

    By Anshu / May 30, 2018

    Quite often these drab-looking tiny birds are overlooked in favour of their more colourful counterparts. The Indian silverbills are one such species which though ubiquitous, are often ignored. They usually forage in groups and are very gregarious.…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    Neelkanth: The Indian Roller Bird

    By Anshu / May 25, 2018

    This is one bird which you will commonly find perched on wires along roadsides. The Indian roller bird or the Neelkanth. As children whenever we had our trips to Nagpur, one of our common pastimes used to be counting…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    Golden orioles: My favourite summer sight

    By Anshu / May 20, 2018

    Sevagram can be terribly atrocious in the summers with the temperatures climbing to over 45 degrees C. But there are some blessings of nature one can look forward to even when the sun is blazing down. Delicious…

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