There was a hint of cool which we knew would soon be overtaken by the heat of June. That morning, we were monitoring eight nests of five different woodpecker species in the forests of Pawalgarh and were...

A vivid memory of one of my earliest birding experiences was at my farm in Meghalaya. One morning, my cousin and I went to our family farm before sunrise to bird for a couple of hours. It was cloudy and...

I love owls. During my stint at WII as a masters student, me and my batchmates would always go birding at any time of the day (or night). One evening, a friend called me frantically from near the tennis...

It was the morning of 12th July 2020. I was on my regular field visit to Ramdevra satellite enclosure of Desert National Park in Rajasthan. While driving along the dirt trail, an unusual event caught my...

I entered a shop looking at the nest of a pair of Barn Swallows, which had four fully grown chicks waiting for their parents to feed them. The parents flew into the shop and the female went near the nest,...

It was one of those late June summer evenings in northern India when even the setting of the Sun fails to provide relief from hot and sultry conditions. In the company of the legendary Ali Hussain (an...

I have a very spooky story from when I visited Nagzira wildlife sanctuary. I remember we were staying in the forest guest house right next to Nagzira lake. On one of the nights, we went for a night trail to...

This is an  incident which happened in 2018, it was a time when I was working on tigers of Nandhaur landscape in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand. As a part of my fieldwork, I used to regularly visit...

One of my favourite sights while working in the hills of Uttarakhand was that of Barn and Red-rumped Swallows nesting in most shops and restaurants I visited in the summer. These nests are usually built using...

It was a sweltering summer month in Mohali. As usual, my colleague (Yambem Soniya Devi) and I opened  mist-nets and were waiting with not so much excitement. It had been a week since we got any Jungle...

During the summer of 2014, I was volunteering for a project at Hollangapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary to study the habitat ecology of squirrels. That summer was the best summer of my life; waking up with the...

I have some wonderful memories of birding at Periyar with my Masters batchmates. While birding, we saw many forest species that I had not previously seen before - many lifers for me. We sighted an elephant...