The award honors exceptional contributions to biological knowledge by amateur naturalists—and in Pittie’s case, it acknowledges a life devoted to birds, literature, and community engagement.
Aasheesh Pittie is the editor of the ornithological journal ‘Indian Birds’. He has been the engine behind books such as ‘Birds in Books’, ‘Three Hundred Years of South Asian Ornithology’ and ‘The Written Bird: Birds in Books 2’
