The efforts of Dr Salim Ali, fondly known as ‘Birdman of India’, to preserve bird habitats became crucial in an era when industrialisation and urbanisation posed severe threats to biodiversity
Hyderabad: Bird. Write. Read. Repeat. That is what Aasheesh Pittie, 60, has been doing for the past 40 years. Unlike today’s birders, who are generally identified with the long (and fat) lenses, his go-to tools were only a pair of binoculars, a notebook and a pen to take the notes. A telescope was added later […]
