These lantana Elephants are grabbing eyeballs. Come visit them between 3-5 PM today. #campus@25 #sciencefair

On the occasion of the upcoming Great Backyard Bird Count (#GBBC), do take a look at this short #Hindi video on how to create and upload a checklist using the eBird mobile app. Please share along! youtube.com/watch?v=KuNP4V… IndiAves

Had a fun time interacting with super curious students!

Siddhi Jaishankar, Radhika Nair, MSc Wildlife National Centre for Biological Sciences Rohan Arthur Oceans at NCF Theresa Alcoverro CEAB-CSIC describe tool use in two species of tropical wrasses from Lakshadweep link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A thread. Early last year, I saw this video about a convoy that had been stopped in Pasighat, Arunachal. It contained elephants, on the start of an uncomprehending journey from lush green Namsai to Jamnagar, Gujarat. x.com/RKharmujai/sta…. #Vantara

🏆 Shortlisted for this year's Chico Mendes Prize, #ECR author Munib Khanyari talks us through how his team co-designed conservation interventions with local communities in the Trans-Himalaya 🗻 Watch the full video: appliedecologistsblog.com/2024/03/22/vid…

This week is #InternationalDarkSkyWeek. 🌌🌟 83% of the global population lives under a light-polluted sky. Light pollution in #OurChangingMountains can disrupt wildlife, impact human health, and blocks our view of the beautiful stars above. loom.ly/l66-U_g

The first paper, a short note, from my dissertation work on Kutch's cool carnivores! This one is about #HoneyBadgers

New paper alert! 🚨 "Predicting and reducing potential parasites infection between migratory livestock and resident Asiatic Ibex of Pin valley, India" 🐐🐑 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

like birds? like mountains? JOIN THE MOUNTAIN BIRD NETWORK Here's how it goes: 1) do a systematic bird survey of a mountain slope 2) your wildest dreams will come true info posted here: benjamingfreeman.com/mountainbirdne… (please share widely)

New mini project! We've built a small explorer to visualize self-reported election affidavits from 2019 (and 2024 where available) and each MP's parliamentary activity. Go have a look for your own constituencies 👀 More data coming in future updates. 🔗 whoismyneta.com

My M.Sc. fieldwork required me to do what I always wanted to - track carnivores in the misunderstood landscape of Kutch. I put together a small article, detailing my experiences doing fieldwork under the scorching summer of 2022. currentconservation.org/hidden-denizen…

The exciting times of fieldwork in Northeast India, and discovering the reason behind hundreds and thousands of Amur Falcons stopping over in the region!! Suresh Kumar Wildlife Institute of India Alex Jacob Deven Mehta

New #openaccess paper out in Ornithological Applications (American Ornithological Society)! Now some ways away from the peak frenzy of COVID-19, showing us the bigger picture, we explored how exactly the pandemic impacted eBirding in India. (⚠️ birders!) Nature Conservation Foundation doi.org/10.1093/ornith… 🧵below.

cool paper alert reminds me of when I visited Sulawesi cloud forests full of flycatchers/whistlers/fantails/mixed flocks. Then went downhill to beautiful lowland forests and saw, like, no insectivores I was so puzzled - maybe it's the weaver ants!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Finding bird nests along an elevational grandient This nest was quite special. High up in a cliff we managed to follow a bird to its nest. Here is a series of pictures showing a camera trap on the nest, the cliff, and the nest with eggs. Worth it!

New paper alert! 🚨 A new dawn? Population baselines of snow leopards and other mammals of the Kishtwar High Altitude National Park, India in Integrative Conservation Link -> onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

I will be looking for PhD and/or Int PhD students starting in 2025, so if you're interested in joining my lab (or any others in the TIFR system) as a graduate student please apply!

Look it's Ben Freeman!! Such a deserving Packard Foundation recipient -- amazing scientist doing amazing things!! packard.org/fellow/benjami… 🏔️🔝🐦🐦‍⬛🦜🦉 #MountainBirdNetwork #TechMountain Georgia Tech @GTSciences GA Tech Biology