State of India’s birds, 2023
A report on India’s bird population has painted a grim picture for many of the country’s species. The State of India’s Birds (SoIB) report showed worrisome declines, with 178 species of wild birds identified
Birds
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Unsafe or secure?
Amid the gloom surrounding RJF data, an experiment in Haryana gives some hope
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Bird s eye view
the title of the book might convey the impression that it is limited to birds and their habitats. But it actually gives an exhaustive overview of the environment, with birds as the parameter for
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A penchant for adultery
Most birds are adulterous, find bird watchers, and contrary to earlier beliefs, it is the females who have a roving eye
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CAMBODIA
At least 20 endangered sarus cranes were recently killed and eaten by villagers of the Ban teay Meanchey province of Cam bodia. "The birds ate many rice plants and, therefore, the villagers hunted
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Reaching the limits to growth
THE PACIFIC island-state of Nauru, once abundant in phosphates deposited by birds, now lies devastated and desolate. Most of the phosphate was mined by Australia and royalties made the Nauruans one
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Fowl Play
Modifying chicken to suit the palate. Is it safe?
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Using DNA to put them in place
A VULTURE is really a stork and albatrosses belong to the same super-family as the flightless penguins. This is what US ornithologists, Charles Sibley, Jon Ahlquist and Burt Monroe have concluded
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Birds of a feather
KAREN Perremans and her colleagues at the Zoological Institute at Leuven in Belgium have discovered that birds have unique "featherprints," which may make it possible to identify bird species by
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Mira Behn: A friend of nature
The urge to be close to nature guided Madeleine Slade, who came to be known as Mira Behn, throughout her life
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Why save the rooster?
In 1996, about 14,000 million tonnes of meat came from the chicken alone. Rare indigenous breeds are extremely hardy and provide more protein and nutrition. Research on them is the need of the hour