Sunil Mantri: Could you please tell something about yourself? Shailesh Chowatia: Being a religious person, I have always been more sensitive towards mute souls (animals and birds), as a child I was always taught to help Distress souls. And being so close to the Nature, […]

The state of New York is to turn off non-essential lights in state-run buildings to help birds navigate their migratory routes in spring and autumn. Migrating birds are believed to use stars to navigate but they can be disorientated by electric lights, causing them to crash into buildings. The phenomenon, known as “fatal light attraction”, is estimated to kill up to one billion birds a year in the US. Millions […]

Looking at the rising number of bird injuries due to the use of glass-coated strings ‘manja’ by the kite flyers in India on Makar Sankranti festival, PETA urges people to go for standard cotton strings instead. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will hold a demonstration outside Albert Hall Museum here on January 12 with activists dressed as “injured” people, wrapped in bandages and hobbling on crutches to […]

German researchers have figured out how birds locate the source of a sound even though they don’t have external ears. Outer ears on mammals help the animal identify whether sounds are coming above, below or at the same level. Technische Universität München (TUM) has solved that mystery, publishing its findings in the journal PLOS ONE. The location of a sound is key to survival, say the scientists. For instance, blackbirds […]