Mandarin Duck Floating in the Maguri-Motapung beel
Context Floating in the Maguri-Motapung beel (or wetland) in Assam’s Tinsukia district for over a week is the spectacular and rare Mandarin duck. The bird was also spotted by a…
Giant Leatherback Turtle
Context Proposals for tourism and port development in the Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) Islands have conservationists worried over the fate of some of the most important nesting populations of the…
Species in News: Striped Hairstreak and Elusive Prince Butterflies Species
Context Lepidopterists in Arunachal Pradesh have helped add two species to India’s expanding list of butterflies. About the species One of them, the Striped Hairstreak, was first recorded by Japanese…
Species in news: Globba Andersonii Plant
Context A team of researchers from Pune and Kerala have “rediscovered” a rare and critically endangered plant species called Globba andersonii from the Sikkim Himalayas near the Teesta river valley region after…
Species in News: Assam Keelback Snake
Context More than a century after it was first seen, the Assam keelback (Herpetoreas pealii) — a snake species endemic to the region — was rediscovered in 2018 by a…
Species in News: Pied Cuckoo
Context Recently, the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), has decided to study the migration of the Pied Cuckoo Bird by tagging the bird with satellite transmitters. This is the first study in the…
[Species in News] Hilsa Fish
Context Recently Fishermen in West Bengal are in for a pleasant surprise amid the COVID-19 gloom as they have exuded hope of a bumper yield of Hilsa, known as “maacher…