Chinmayi Ramasubramanian
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...
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Janani R
- Jan 5
- 1 min
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...
Chirp! Magazine
- Dec 27, 2023
- 1 min
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...
Nidhi Ramasubramanian
- Dec 25, 2023
- 1 min
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...
Chinmayi Ramasubramanian
- Nov 24, 2023
- 1 min
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...
Chirp! Magazine
- Nov 3, 2023
- 1 min
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
- Sep 8, 2023
- 1 min
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...
Janani R
- Jun 13, 2023
- 1 min
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...
Chinmayi Ramasubramanian
- Apr 2, 2023
- 1 min
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
- Feb 21, 2023
- 1 min
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...
Chirp! Magazine
- Feb 18, 2023
- 1 min
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
- Jan 30, 2023
- 1 min
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...
Chinmayi Ramasubramanian
- Jan 15, 2023
- 1 min
#Monotypic Species - Eurasian Collared Dove
The Eurasian collared dove species are distributed in Indian subcontinent, central Asia, west Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Japan....
Chirp! Magazine
- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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