Photograph: Sandeep Somasekharan
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I had walked these fields as a child. Here is where I became a birdwatcher.
Encounter – the Short-toed Snake Eagle
Meet the Short-toed Snake Eagle (Circaetus gallicus) or plain “Short-toed Eagle”. It is a raptor of open countries, grass/ scrublands and semi-deserts, which, as its name suggests, loves to devour snakes and reptiles and occasionally mammals as…
Encounter: Chestnut-tailed Minla or Bar-throated Siva. Or whatever.
Why call it a chestnut-tailed whatever when no one notices the colour of the tail? Bar-throated Siva? Ah, that’s another story.