Rajasthan is likely to become country's first state to have toilets for both boys and girls in its government schools. Rajasthan has introduced several programs to check the decline in learning levels ...

There are attention-grabbing beaks and then some. Where two avian species are spitting images of each other and telling them apart is a challenge akin to identifying identical twins, the beak ...

Pied Avocet pair have nested not once, but twice since February, says top birder The Pied Avocet, a wetland bird with a long, slender, black upturned bill, has bred for the first time at the Marmoom ...

TIRUPPUR: Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta), a winter migratory bird that breeds in Europe and very rarely found in inland water-bodies, has been spotted for the first time in the Nanjarayan tank ...

There are attention-grabbing beaks and then some. Where two avian species are spitting images of each other and it is a challenge to tell them apart, the beak sometimes settles the issue. The colour, ...

With the arrival of winter, the shallow waters and narrowing width of the mighty Padma becomes host to a number of animals in search of the nutrition it provides. Most recently, the distinctly black ...

Waterbirds: The International Journal of Waterbird Biology, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Apr., 2001), pp. 83-88 (6 pages) Egg size variation in the Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta was studied at seven breeding ...

Local and common throughout Southern Africa, some birds are resident and nomadic, others possibly non-breeding palaearctic migrants in the Summer months. They like shallow water in estuaries, lagoons, ...

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Coimbatore: Members of the Nature Society of Tirupur have sighted a lone Eurasian Wigeon and five Ruddy Shelducks at the Nanjarayan Tank Bird Sanctuary on the outskirts of Tirupur city. Ruddy ...