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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    Sighting the pink-browed rosefinch at Mukteshwar

    By Anshu / November 10, 2022

    It was my first vacation in the hills of Uttarakhand. From my terrace room in the Ojaswi Himalayan resort in Mukteshwar, I spotted the whole Himalayan range of peaks. Getting up early in the morning to spot…

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    The frisky Himalayan Bulbul: Punk with a mohawk

    By Anshu / November 5, 2022

    We decided to spend a quiet vacation in Mukteshwar in Uttarakhand. This time we steered clear of ‘spot-hopping’. Preferred to take it slow and watch the magnificent Himalayan peaks from my room. But then the bird watching…

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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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