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Delhi’s Birds Need Help!

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Nadeem Shehzad and his brother Mohammad Saud take in about 1400 injured birds per year in Delhi, India – an enormous number. The wildlife centers set up lodging, local transportation, and meetings with their directors and veterinarians. Conservation India wildlife rehabilitators' What’s left?

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We Got the Wrong Starling

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While in India last week for the 3rd annual Global Bird-watching Conference in the state of Gujarat, I had the opportunity to let my mind wonder “what if”? The default starling of urban areas in this corner of India are these remarkable rosys. Rosy Starlings winter in this part of India in huge numbers.

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Lakshmi’s Owl

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Lakshmi rides an owl as her Vahana (a spirititual being or animal that transports a God) and the Spotted Owlet has been chosen to represent the family. Common throughout India with a range that covers much of South-east Asia, it can often be seen around habitation where it catches small rodents, insects and invertebrates.

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The Rarest Bird I’ve Ever Seen

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In India, everything takes about three times longer than you expect it to. We managed to get everybody out and onto the transportation only about 45 minutes behind schedule, and as the sun rose over the regions famed White Desert, we were on our way southward.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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This was only my second time ever to observe this subspecies (the first time was here as well), two other subspecies I have observed in India. For a while, they followed the levee, then climbed and crossed it in front of me, only to disappear in the poplar plantation at the other side.

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The 100 Best Birdwatching Sites in India

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Having more than 1300 bird species, including over 75 endemics, it is hard to resist the lure of India – something I know from personal experience. Bhanu Singh is one of India’s leading wildlife photographers whose images and articles are regularly published in national and international publications.

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The Ole’ Bucket List

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Well, this time next week I’ll be winging my way to Cape Town via Auckland and Singapore (air transport is weird sometimes), so this is my last beat post of the year. A Leopard in India by Yathin Krishnappa (CC). I have been to 11 countries to watch wildlife that this species lives in. I have stood NEXT to someone that saw it.

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