Wildlife Stuff
I am actively involved in wildlife documentation and nature awareness. Some of my wildlife work can be accessed from below. In addition to these you can also check out my Photography here.
Nature Awareness/Education
I actively try to conduct walks and sessions for schools, colleges and people from my neighbourhood. I am also the Founder of the Chennai Young Naturalists' Network and am presently part of its Administrative and Outreach teams. I am also presently one of the Founding Editors and Designers for Nature Trail, the e-Magazine published by the Network.
Contributions to Citizen Science Databases
I strongly believe in the value in Citizen participation to build wildlife awareness. I use and encourage the use of the following Citizen Science databases as indicated below along with my user profiles/contributions
- eBird - ebird.org/profile/NjQ3NTAz/world
- Butterflies of India portal - https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/search#life_stage_id=-1&photographer_id=1038&name_search=&taxon_id=-1&photo_date=-1&country_id=-1&state_id=-1&district_id=-1
- Moths of India portal - https://www.mothsofindia.org/search#life_stage_id=-1&photographer_id=-1&name_search=&taxon_id=355432&photo_date=-1&country_id=-1&state_id=-1&district_id=-1&distinct=1#life_stage_id=-1&photographer_id=188&name_search=&taxon_id=-1&photo_date=-1&country_id=-1&state_id=-1&district_id=-1
- iNaturalist and the Biodiversity of Chennai project on it. The below widget shows some of my most recent observations on it.
Audio Recording
Though one often uses the term birdwatching, birding is largely reliant on ones listening skills. It helps not only locate but also identify bird. Some species of birds recently have been split into two or more different species just based on their calls.
Several birds which maybe difficult to differentiate by appearance can easily be differentiated using calls.
I have learnt techniques for sound recording from the Macaulay team from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology through a session by Matt Medler, Jay McGowan and Andrew Spencer during the 2018 Young Birders Event and through the 4-day Sound Recording workshop by Jessie Barry, Andrew Spencer and Matt Medler at the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore.
You can access some of my bird call recordings by clicking here. All recordings were edited by me(except the calls of the Common Yellowthroat and the Mourning warbler, which were edited by Jay Mcgowan and Andrew Spencer from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.) using Ocenaudio.
Several birds which maybe difficult to differentiate by appearance can easily be differentiated using calls.
I have learnt techniques for sound recording from the Macaulay team from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology through a session by Matt Medler, Jay McGowan and Andrew Spencer during the 2018 Young Birders Event and through the 4-day Sound Recording workshop by Jessie Barry, Andrew Spencer and Matt Medler at the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore.
You can access some of my bird call recordings by clicking here. All recordings were edited by me(except the calls of the Common Yellowthroat and the Mourning warbler, which were edited by Jay Mcgowan and Andrew Spencer from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.) using Ocenaudio.
Cornell Young Birders Event
I participated in the 10th Young Birders Event(2018) held by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, US. Click here to view my report for the event.
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