Death to Diclofenac
The ban of the veterinary drug Diclofenac comes as a relief to conservationists. The drug, administered to domestic cattle and water buffalo, has been blamed for the Great Asian Vulture…
California dreaming with gulls and squirrels
At a viewpoint on the California coast, we stopped for a bite, and got more than we could chew.
Iruppu-Brahmagiri on foot
Birdsong brings comfort to tired trekkers ascending to the heights of Brahmagiri in the Western Ghats
The birdwatcher at home
I had walked these fields as a child. Here is where I became a birdwatcher.
A jumbo-size problem
“Tusker!” The cry stopped the safari vehicle in its tracks. About 20 tourists gawked at the picture of splendour, like a dark raincloud in a starless sky, chomping on shoots…
When a green finger hurts
I have lived all my life with a green finger. Now scurvied by years of abuse in the urban wilderness, it joins my palsied lungs in an anguished cry. For…